Tag: Olympics
BREAKING NEWS: Pistorius will go to the Olympics
In a week that has seen tragedy, BBC Sports has just reported that Oscar Pistorius [who is a sprinter that is a double amputee] has won his appeal to compete in the Beijing Summer Olympics of 2008. This is great news...
China's Year Of Disasters Breeds Discontent
This has clearly been a very troubled year for China. Immediately before Chinese New Year, the worst snowstorms in 50 years paralyzed travel, cut off power and supplies, and created a refugee crisis. Soon thereafter,...
Chinese claim Olympic Torch on Everest summit
NEPAL Namche Bazaar (Everest region) - According to Chinese state media reports - not known for their accurate reporting - the special Olympic Torch has reached the summit of Mount Everest. Or has it? Chinese...
Beijing admits visa policies have changed
Beijing has officially acknowledged that it has tightened visa procedures ahead of the Olympic Games, APreported. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said that the approvalprocess has become "more strict" and authorities were now "moreserious" with the visa approval...
Less Than 100 Days to Olympics, Beijing Games See...
The opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics are less than 100 days away and already Chinese people are starting to say hosting the Olympics in China is, perhaps, “Not Lucky.”In a nation and culture obsessed by luck, or as they say, "Good...
Realty; focusing on how to change issues that hav...
Life as we know it will be gone... October 9,2007 Being Open Minded To Change Focusing on what is wrong...T here is Life and There is Death and between them there are animated particles...
100 Days Until Beijing Olympics
Beijing has spent almost $40 billion on the games so far and just look at the results.With only 100 days left until the games begin, what could possibly go wrong?"Beijing on Wednesday marks the 100-day countdown to...
What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?
Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week....
Black Eyed Peas Reject China Boycott
Will.i.am is getting things started in here...er...rather, there. And, dum diddly, what do you know...'there' is actually China. And the boycott is not actually happening. So where is the love? Well, for Will.i.am....
Olympic Torch Havoc in Seoul Flame Anti-Chinese O...
The response in Korean media and public opinion to yesterday's riots during the torch relay in Seoul has been damning. The blame has fallen on the thousands of Chinese students who "ran amok" in downtown Seoul...
Treatment of North Korean Refugees Could Add To C...
The majority of protesters in South Korea were not demonstrating against China due to what was happening in Tibet, as it was the main root of the demonstrations in other parts of the world. Instead, the Anti-Beijing protesters demonstrated because of the harsh treatment North...
Beijing's Massive Pre-Olympic People Relocation, ...
Before the start of the Olympics, communist leaders in Beijing announced a plan to remove from the city the hordes of vagrants, homeless people and orphaned children who live on Beijing’s streets. Some...
Beijing’s Summer Olympics: Are We Headed to a L...
Here we are in April 2008. The Beijing Summer Olympic Games are set to open in August. In 2001 when China was selected as host of these 2008 games, there was great hope in China and throughout the international community that China would enact reforms in human rights,...
Interpol warns of attack at Beijing Olympics
While there has always been a high security presence at the Olympics (especially after the Israeli team was attacked in the 70's and the Australian attempt in the 90's), but things are getting even tighter in Beijing with the upcoming summer Olympics.Protesters, demonstrators...
Ken Livingstone admits he only bid for 2012 Olymp...
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has admitted he 'ensnared' the Government into bidding for the 2012 Olympic Games."Last night in London, he told a mayoral hustings that the event was just a way of extracting funding...
