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Posts Tagged ‘Olympic Games’

WOW this is fantastic photo stuff

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/11/29

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How Chinese use humor about themselves

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/08/14

Terracotta Army detail, Xi'an, ChinaImage via Wikipedia

China Digital Times ยป Olympics Cartoon_ The New Put-down.jpg

The image above was Skitched from China Digital Times!

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Here is a Wordle about the Olympic Torch Relay in China

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/08/14

Wordle - Olympic Torch relay in China.jpg

I got the bunch of words from a China Digital Times post of a translation to English of a Chinese blog post titled “The Sacred Flame in China”.

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If you want a more accurate report about police “manhandling” the press in Beijing

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/08/06

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go this link of that reliable China blog EASTSOUTHWESTNORTH!

Lotsa videos and a translated eyewitness report from a HongKong source.

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NYT headline “Hu Says China Stands By Games Pledges, Web Curbs Lifted”

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/08/01

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Could it be that Mr. Hu-Jin Tao listens more, and is willing to act, than more than one Western leader?

But then who believes what politicians say!

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Beijing air on July 2, 2008 or 37 days till Olympics 2008

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/07/02

James Fallows has offered snaps of Beijing air as seen from his apt. window. Needless to say the heavy smog shown in every photo is disconcerting, but not surprising to me since I visited Beijing in 2004 and 2005. Here is the latest snap:

Good luck Olympians!

Oh Oh! Here’s the latest Beijing air pollution news and it ain’t good!

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