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29 Aug 08
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China: Chinese Lies C. W. Hayford from Chinese History group blog goes into various literature sources for discussing the “Chinese character” in relation to “face” and “lie”. It gives some background about the various Olympic... |
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29 Aug 08
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China: The Cost of a Gold Medal Zhaomu re-posted a forum article which calculated the cost of a gold medal exemplified by the Olympic shooting team. It is estimated that a gold medal costs between RMB30 - 80 millions (around US4.5 - 10 million). |
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29 Aug 08
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Costa Rica: President Arias Asks Dalai Lama to Postpone Visit Costa Rican president Oscar Arias asked Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama to postpone a private visit to the country, citing that Arias won't be in the country to receive him. However, many bloggers believe that the request coincided with a planned official... |
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28 Aug 08
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China: Translating New York Times Olympic Report Black and White Cat shows how the Xinhua has translated the New York Times Olympic Report into Chinese. |
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28 Aug 08
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China: Olympic Medals Shape A graphic representation of the distribution of medals shows that China has big tits. The picture was created by Form One high school boy at bbs.163.com. |
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28 Aug 08
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China: Iphone Girl Dedric Lam from Shanghaiist reports on how the Iphone Girl story has been traveled back to China. Local netizens have created a website for her, iphonegirl.cn, and urged netizens not to human-flesh search and publish her personal data. |
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27 Aug 08
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China: Cop Killer's Case The Shanghai Cop killer's or Yang Jia case was on court on yesterday (26 of Aug). Both Shanghai citizens and reporters were not allowed to attend the trial as all the seats were booked by local police. Liu Xiaoyuan pointed out that such kind of... |
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26 Aug 08
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China: Photos from inside Tibetan Skynet control room Famed she is, though definitely not for her blogging, which is too bad, because there's no doubt that a lot of people would be interested to see the control-room photos and series of Chinese-language sources that Tibetan writer Woeser has just posted... |
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26 Aug 08
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China: Cop-killer online hero case goes on trial Yang Jia's case goes to trial today, after having been postponed for the Olympics. Previously he had been harmonized after having been heroized by many online for walking into a police station in Shanghai last month and killing six cops after what was... |
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26 Aug 08
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China: My Peasant Dad Watches The Olympics ESWN translated an article by Li Punman at my1510 about an older generation peasant's view on the Beijing Olympics. Nationalism is still a pervasive frame. |
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26 Aug 08
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China: Hacking Tsinghua University Website The Beijing Tsinghua university website was hacked on 24 of Aug. The hacker wrote a fake interview in the website in which the university president said the university system is spoon feeding “shit” to students' brain. More from matrix at... |
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26 Aug 08
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China: Weather Intervention During the Olympics, the Beijing government created artificial rain to secure good weather for the opening and closing ceremonies. Lui Li said that if the government had plan to intervene the weather, it should have forecasted it to the people. |
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26 Aug 08
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China: Olympic Regrets Chen XueLei reflected upon his Olympic experience since 7 years ago when Beijing applied for the hosting city. Now that the Beijing Olympics has obtained great success on stage, the blogger wonders if it is really a success for the majority of Chinese... |
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26 Aug 08
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Syria and the Olympics Syria Comment discusses Syria's performance at the Summer Olympics, which just ended in Beijing, China. |
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26 Aug 08
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Jordan: Interesting Olympics Statistics Jordanian blog And far away shares interesting statistics on the Summer Olympics, which just ended in Beijing, China. |
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26 Aug 08
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Saudi Arabia: Where are the women sport heroes? Saudi girls deserve sport heroes too, says Jillian, at a post on women in the Olympics at Kabobfest. “Little girls in Saudi Arabia (which I will use as an example from now on, given that Qatar's population equals that of Boston) deserve to have... |
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26 Aug 08
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MENA: Veiled Athletes in Beijing Despite the Saudi Arabia's decision to ban Saudi women from taking part in the Olympics this year, Blogger Dilshad D. Ali writes about the emergence of hijab (veil) at the Beijing Olympics. Blogger Jana, also lists the 12 veiled Muslim athletes who... |
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25 Aug 08
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China: Brain Damaged Netizen Syndrome WangXiaofeng listed out 13 symptoms for indicating whether a netizen is suffered from brain damage. The symptoms include a compulsion to read and comment posts even they don't really understand the texts; there is only right and wrong in their world... |
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25 Aug 08
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China: Olympics as a Learning Experience Nimrod from the Fool's mountain points out that everyone should try to learn from the Beijing Olympics lesson. |
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25 Aug 08
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China: Where's the Fuwa? Tomorrow yellow flowers from Pandemonium posted some photos of Funwa after the Olympics. |
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25 Aug 08
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China: Amazing Olympics recap photos “Wow,” says Twitter user @frankyu, retweeting @PatrickSearle: “Amazing set of Olympic pics: http://stuff.thdesign.be/forum/varia/OS.html.” Note, though, that nudity can be seen there. |
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25 Aug 08
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China: Games over Well we couldn't watch it on YouTube, but there was Twitter so we know the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony involved [note: links to profanity] some sort of [profanity] hot-pot tower of babel that spiderman climbed up…and we heard something... |
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24 Aug 08
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Arabeyes: The Olympics, Pride, Equality and Hope Millions around the world were glued to their television screens watching their favourite athletes at this year's Beijing Olympics, which just closed. What did Arab bloggers have to say about the world's premier sporting event and their country teams?... |
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24 Aug 08
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Taiwan: Hopes in democracy in the midst of corruption scandal In the last two weeks, the Taiwan mainstream media has been occupied with the corruption scandal of the former president, Chen Shiu-Bian. According to the news report, a Swiss bank has spotted a large sum of suspected money (up to a billion Taiwan yuan)... |
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23 Aug 08
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Bahrain: Eyes on Ruqaya Al Ghasra She may have placed sixth in the qualifying heats and her dreams of becoming the first Arab woman to run in an Olympic final may be dashed, but Bahrain's Golden runner Ruqaya Al Ghasra has sure created a stir online. A rough start meant that Ghasra, who... |
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23 Aug 08
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China: Re-education through labor sentence for two elderly protesters The closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics draws near, and while Chinese media are unable to report on scandals such as this that have dominated foreign media headlines, it is those foreign media reports which have given Chinese netizens... |
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22 Aug 08
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China: Beijing can't find itself on Google News They haven't been call the SchizOlympics for nothing (that piece is serious though, and worth a second read), and now Google News is behaving oddly; read all about it at Danwei: “The absence of China from news searches does not appear to be a... |
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22 Aug 08
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China: iTunes is blocked and it's Apple's fault Silicon Hutong blogger David Wolf notes that the iTunes Music Store is now blocked in China, assumes this was due to the release on iTunes of a Tibetan music album, assumes Apple chose to release it during the Olympics as an act of... |
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22 Aug 08
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China: Athletes / Soldiers Laowiseass noticed Chinese state-run media had applied a troops-athletes metaphor in their report about Olympic victory. The blogger also pointed out that many Chinese regard the soldier-like training of athletes as universal normal practice. |
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22 Aug 08
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China: He Kexin and “babygate” Imagethief picks up the debate on the age issue of He Kexin, the golden girl of Chinese gymnastics, and notices a cold-war double standard in some of the mainstream media report with a story plot of Ours=plucky, heroic achievers. Theirs=manufactured... |
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22 Aug 08
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China: Victims of Sport Xueyong traced the fate of two sportswomen, Guo ping and Zhou Chun-Lai, both were medal carriers and suffered from hardship after their retirement in early age. According to statistic, 40% of the retired sportsman couldn't find a second job. |
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22 Aug 08
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China: Protesters' Trap Two 80 years old protesters was sent to labour education camp as they insisted to demonstrate in the Olympic protest area. Zhongoutese was very angry and said that the Olympic protest area was a trap for dissents. |
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22 Aug 08
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South Korea: Racism Ask a Korean! discusses about the different stands in racism by using the Spanish basketball players' photo. |
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22 Aug 08
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China: Where the world's e-waste goes Academic-blogger Bill Chameides at The Huffington Post looks at the issue of e-waste in China, noting that 70% of it worldwide ends up there: “Even though the Chinese government has banned the importation of e-waste, the stuff continues to find its... |
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21 Aug 08
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China: Gay Olympics Shanghai Fag Hag from Shanghaiist wrote about Gay sport competition in Shanghai hosted by an organization called Rainbow League. |
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21 Aug 08
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China: Earthquake 100 days Aug 19 is the 100 days of Sichuan earthquake, Wang Ning posted photos of Beichuan earthquake zone for memorizing the deaths. |
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21 Aug 08
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China: Sportswear Sponsor Xueyong noticed that Liu Xiang's withdrawal from Olympics has resulted in the loss of 3 billion yuan for his sportswear sponsors. The blogger pointed out that the focus on one or two sport stars reflected that the development of sport in China is... |
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21 Aug 08
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China: Free Wu Dianyuan And Wang Xiuying! On the arrest and sentence to one year of re-education labor for housing activists Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, aged 79 and 77 respectively, David Seth at Daily Kos writes: We need to call on China to free Wu Dianyuan And Wang Xiuying, and everyone else... |
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21 Aug 08
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China: Only Gold Medal Matters? Luqiu Luwei from my1510 criticizes the Chinese mainstream media for giving too much attention to the gold medal winners as if other medal winners or participants haven't been performing good enough to be proud of. |
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21 Aug 08
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Japan and China: Angry ‘Olympic Ojisan’ leaves Beijing James from Japan Probe highlights the mainstream media reports about the early departure of Olympic super fan, 82-years old “Olympic Ojisan”. |
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21 Aug 08
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Jamaica: “Lightning” Strikes Twice at Beijing Olympics Jamaica's Usain Bolt continued his phenomenal run at the Beijing Olympics with a record-breaking win in the men's 200m Wednesday and Caribbean bloggers are celebrating just as much as he is! |
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20 Aug 08
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Barbados, Jamaica, China: Mistaken Identity A case of mistaken identity in China courtesy a newspaper that could not distinguish between images of Usain Bolt and Dwain Chambers - Barbadian blogger Jdid is not taking the mix-up lightly: “No distinct similarities except skin color you mean. The... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: Watching women's volleyball Thanks to Bill Bishop at the MarketWatch Olympic Blog, we are given a recount of a day at the beach watching the US, Brazil and China's women's volleyball teams in the semi-finals. Not just that, Bill points us to a link that shows what the Beach... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: 500 Foreign Capital Enterprises Closed Down Nightrain from the East in Guanjia reported that between January and July, around 500 foreign capital enterprises were forced to close down in Dongguan because of deteriorating business condition. |
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20 Aug 08
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China: Cheering for the race traitors Those thin-skinned cyber-mobsters must have heatstroke; Chinese coach leads US women's volleyball team to victory against China and gets dissed by a chess grandmaster, then: The majority of the netizens disagreed with his view. The American team led... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: Checking up on Olympics uncensorship A post from sw at the OpenNet Initiative blog looks at results of tests carried out during the first week of the Olympics and finds that while in fact not many websites have been unblocked for the Games, those that are can now be accessed all throughout... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: Truth or Lie? Immusoul said that he could not believe in Liu Xiang's explanation about his withdrawal yet, as there weren't any independent / third party evidence supporting his explanation yet. Moreover, up till, most of the decisions made during the Olympics... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: India-US nuclear deal While anticipating a question regarding China in Katie Couric's upcoming interview of American presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain, Out Of The Way blogger Ellaconic has instead opted to look toward India and a less-observed issue, and... |
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20 Aug 08
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China: The Beijing Bay Via TorrentFreak, on the IOC's takedown notice sent not to p2p network The Pirate Bay which was hosting torrents of Olympics footage, but Sweden's Minister of Justice: “We were going to ignore the Olympics, but now we’re loading our cannons.... |
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19 Aug 08
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China: Liu Xiang is after all still a hero “There are heroes in this world, but there are no supermen. And the hero is not necessarily the person who wins the gold medal.” My1510's Rose Luqiu looks at the psychology of Liu's withdrawal, both from the perspective of athlete and... |
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