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An investigative look into China's "black jails" and how petitioners, breaking no Chinese laws, are being imprisoned, beaten or just plainly ignored when they bring their problems to Beijing.
A Q&A with acclaimed documentarian Tan Siok Siok about her new film Boomtown Beijing - a film that captures the Chinese capital the summer before the Olympics. Be sure to also check out the film's trailer and links.
The Granite Studio has an interesting post illustrating the inconsistency and division between BOGOG, the central government and reality when it comes to the controversy surrounding the deaths of workers building Olympic structures in Beijing.
(CNN) -- Fifteen U.S. House members asked President Bush Tuesday not to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing to protest China's human rights records.
The call follows comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who earlier said Bush should boycott the August 8 opening ceremony.
President Bush
It seems that Olympic preparations are going smoothly in Beijing (621 days to go!), but then no-one is really able to complain. Not so in London, where questions about rocketing costs and grave doubts over the usefulness of staging the games are being vo
Erica Kerner, Director of Beijing 2008 Olympic Program for adidas China tells us about the company's sponsorship of the Olympic games and its brand strategy of being China's leading sportswear company with over 4,000 retail stores in China by 2008.
The Shanghaiist takes a look at two US presidential candidates - Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama - in this interesting post talking about the presidential hopefulls' views on China.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Protesters attempted to douse the Olympic torch with a fire extinguisher on Sunday as its arrival in London triggered angry demonstrations over China's human rights record and recent unrest in Tibet ahead of this year's Summer Games in Beijing.
Hundreds of police offic
ESWN gives translation of an article in China's Liberation Daily which reports the account of Jin Jing, a medal-winning member of the Chinese national wheelchair fencing team and carrier of the Olympic torch in Paris. The article raises the point that bad PR is not pointing to the CPC, but to the
TOKYO — The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he supported Beijing’s hosting of the Summer Olympics, but he insisted that pro-Tibet demonstrators had the right to voice their opinions during the international torch relay as long as they refrained from violence.
During a brief stopover in Japan on hi
The knuckfuts from Westboro Baptist Church are at it again, having announced plans to travel to China and picket the Beijing Olympics against a "godless, filthy, sodomite China". You just know these dipshits will get visas too.
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A group of Nobel Peace laureates sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urging the Beijing Games host to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing its ally Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur.
"As the primary economic, military and political partner of the
Politicising the Olympic Games is never right. Not even if the Chinese government is doing it.
KATHMANDU, April 25, 2007—Chinese authorities have detained four U.S. citizens who staged a protest at the Chinese Everest base camp against Beijing's plans to bring the Olympic torch through the region.
On arriving at the base camp, the activists from the U.S.-based Students for a Free Tibet
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