It seem’s that the real ages of Olympic athletes isn’t the only thing being covered up during the olympic games.
“At the Olympic Games here, you drink Coca-Cola beverages, eat McDonald’s food, ride in Volkswagen sedans and watch events on giant Panasonic video screens.
You also take ——- elevators, are protected by ——- fire alarms, cool down [...]
Tuesday’s United Daily News reports that fans plan to wave the Myanmar flag because, like the Taiwan flag, it features a blue star-studded square on the upper left corner of a red backdrop.
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I’m not sure that this will actually eventuate, though it will be interesting to see how the locals react. If the games [...]
My Internet access is the worst I’ve experienced since I was on a University LAN in Yantai, Shandong Province, bum f*ck nowhere.
What makes me laugh/want to kill someone is that despite running firefox on an Ubuntu system (a godsend in virrii and spyware ridden Chinese Cyberspace) the censortards still insist that its Internet explorer that [...]
From The South China Morning Post
Aug 02, 2008
A representative of more than 100 property owners from Suzhou was detained and sent home yesterday when she tried to submit an application to protest in a designated zone in Beijing during the Olympics.
Ge Yifei , a retired doctor representing 140 owners from The Lakeview luxury development in [...]
I think it’s no surprise the the problem with the reporting on the tbt fracas is largely due tho the lack of reliable information coming out of the region to exactly what is going on. The western media has been widely accused in China as holding an anti-China bias and the Chinese media has long [...]
