Tag Archives: Olympics

News from Sudan

Box office failure for Asian film; Boao forum and Vincent Siew; a hospital in Sudan; Sudanese runners; construction suspended for Olympics.

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Boycott

A translation of a short blog post by Wang Xiaofeng.

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Hip hop user generated propaganda

Already a hit on Sina.com, this user generated hip hop propaganda video is now on Youtube.

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40 million new poor

China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.

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Who is winning the Olympic PR war?

The Olympic PR war: not so simple.

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Fortress Besieged, Liuzhou edition

Getting back into prison; Carrying the torch for peace; corrupt bureaucracy; Yuan below 7 dollars; Yunnan filmmakers.

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Challenging China bashing

Link to an online campaign to “challenge China bashing”.

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Pomfret’s China

A new blog about China by John Pomfret.

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The Torchbearer — An Interview by Sang Ye

An interview by Sang Ye with one of the Olympic torch bearers—an impoverished teacher and foster father from Anshan in China’s northeast.

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The quest for the Olympic flame

Doping with TCM; the Olympic torch comes; rice supplies sufficient? Liuzhou builds mansions for civil servants.

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