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Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month’s Beijing Olympic Games.

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Check out the songs contending to be the official theme of the Beijing Olympic Games.

The songs come from some of the creme de la creme of the Chinese pop world, including Andy Lau (Andy Liu), S.H.E. and numerous participants past and present from the ‘Super Girls‘ TV contest!

The International Olympic Committee praised Beijing on Tuesday for setting a "gold standard for the future" in its preparations for the Games, which begin in a month. "The quality of preparation, the readiness of the venues and the attention to operational detail for these Games have set a gold standard for the future," the IOC said in a statement.

With dog meat banned from the official Olympic menu, dog owners in Beijing have a hard time dealing with the dog ownership laws imposed upon them.

Interesting description of the incredible differences between the Beijing of the 1970s vs Beijing today.

“China’s Internet highway ain’t no more
You gotta surf those darkened hutongs like before...

As China counts down the days towards the Summer Olympics, Beijing has been embarking on the final leg of an 8-year journey to improve the environs of the capital city. From pollution to traffic congestion to Nigerian drug dealers, Beijing is not the same city it was just a few short years ago. Here's a first-hand look at some of the changes which have occurred over the past two years, and how they might effect the daily life of both locals and visitors alike.

Prediction 4. Beijing taxi drivers will be sending their kids overseas next year. With so much tender and non-savvy foreign meat to feed on, these boys are going to make a tank full of piranha seem like a litter of newborn kittens. No manner of written or spoken warning will be sufficient to save the unwary. It won’t be pretty, although Beijing will insist that it is.