The Beijing Olympics have had a great impact on the city of Beijing, where a large infrastructure refurbishment initiative, fresh developments and a massive English language training campaign have been some of the elements of a drastic change and an... ...full story at Success Stories
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| 31 Aug 08 |
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2008 Beijing Olympics Trailer(Fan-Made) »
YouTube video This years olympics have been awsome and I loved watching. I can't wait for 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada.None of this video is from the Beijing Olympics its self because the lack of video on the internet of the games.I took the video from the Mummy 3... |
| 19 Aug 08 |
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Beijing expects tourism boom » People's Daily China needs to take training and recruitment measures in advance of the forecast post-Olympics surge in tourism, a human resource report said. Beijing and Shanghai will each need 500,000 trained hotel staff by 2010 to serve the millions of overseas... |
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English Training for Beijing Police » china.org.cn Beijing police will step up English training so that emergency calls can be dealt with in English next year as part of the preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
| 25 Jun 08 |
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Wireless City - Free wireless internet in central Beijing during the Olympics » The Beijinger by Paul Pennay According to this report in today's Beijing Times, Beijing residents and Olympic visitors will be able to take advantage of free wireless internet throughout large sections of central Beijing during the Olympics. The first phase of the roll out of free internet, part of the Wireless City WiCity initiative (thanks to Banyue at Danwei for the correction and link to the official site), will begin testing today. The area covered in the first phase (see map above) includes the second and third ring roads, the CBD, Financial Street, Zhongguan Cun and the Wangjing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Areas of Xuanwu and Yizhuang are also covered in this first phase which offers high-speed wireless services over an area of around 100 square km. Starting from today, people in the areas mentioned above can use the new system to get online and come the Olympics the wireless service will be available for free. China Comm, the company behind the project, have also announced that after the Olympics, they plan to extend the wireless zone to first cover everywhere within the fifth ring road by 2009 and then cover the whole city by the end of 2010. [...] Read more! |
| 26 Feb 09 |
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Shanghai net cafe owners required to learn English for World Expo » People's Daily Owners and staff at the 1,400 net cafes in Shanghai have been required to take English lessons for the 2010 World Expo. The two-day training course aims to enable the staff working in Shanghai's Internet cafes to speak simple English in talks with... |
| 19 Aug 08 |
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Beijing Olympics Quote Of The Day » China Law Blog Too good a line not to repeat. It is from a Lost Laowai post, entitled, "Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland," reflecting on the atmosphere in Beijing during the Olympics: The Beijing people seem happy in the way that the staff at a five star hotel are... |
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