The United States Olympic Committee, which will have more than 600 people in its delegation, is planning to transport its own produce because of fears about public health and food standards in China.
The move is widely seen as an attempt to minimize any interference that could hinder the movements of Chinese torch bearers, who will be climbing the mountain within the next two months.
This USA Today article shows just how far China is willing to go to show the world how great their country is at the 2008 games. With Taiwan and Japan tensions cooling, China's turning their anti-aircraft guns on their nebulous neighbours, the clouds.
A LEAKED speech by a police commander in charge of security at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has disclosed that the authorities fear mass protests by disaffected Chinese as the biggest threat to the Games. Yu said he was planning the preventive detention of anyone organising “incitement” and of those w
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.
An excellent, excellent post by Imagethief on how the Chinese authorities recently made a huge Beijing boo-boo by detaining Olympic protesters one year before the games begin.
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.
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.
China plans to order all foreign students to leave the country before the Olympics games in August, strictly regulate the issuing of business and tourist visas, and deport refugees, sources said on Thursday.
A slightly more positive story to many we have heard lately. Two groups of people are cycling from Athens to Beijing, one group is well organised, supported and sponsored and the other seems to be operating on a boot-string and determination.
Jason at Over And Out translates a QQ forward of a different sort - a Q&A with a young Chinese writer who is, of all things, speaking reason in these turbulent times.
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