Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city’s bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contradict the official slogan, “One World, One Dream”. Bar owners ne... ...full story at Black China Hand
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| 27 Mar 08 |
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Tibetan Olympics Announced »
YouTube video With a slogan of 'One World, Many Dreams', Tibetan exiles are planning their own Olympic games. Set for the northern city of Dharamsala, India, the Tibet games will run from May 15th to the 25th. [Lobsang Wangyal, Organiser Tibetan Olympics]: "Tibetan... |
| 22 Jul 08 |
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Olympics Marketing Tip: Think “China World China Dream” » Biz Cult “One World One Dream” may be good enough as a slogan for the 2008 Olympic Games, but it would have been a terrible way for an Olympic sponsor to express support for the Games as a marketing ploy. According to the Beijing Olympics homepage, “One Wor... |
| 18 Jul 08 |
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No blacks or Mongolians for bars, or no sources for SCMP? » Danwei From Beijing Boyce: Tom Miller of the South China Morning Post reported today that bars in central Beijing have been instructed to not serve blacks or Mongolians during the Olympics: Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and... |
| 17 Apr 08 |
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Beijing police to raid bars for drugs before Olympic » People's Daily Beijing police officers will secretly search bars for drug traffickers and addicts as of Wednesday to root out such illegal activities ahead of the Olympic Games, local public security authority declared in a circular. Bar owners a ... |
| 29 Aug 08 |
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“同一个世界，同一个梦想”还是 “同会异梦”? » China Beat “One World, One Dream” or “One Game, Different Dreams”?This piece was originally posted at Policy Innovations and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.By James FarrerA "silver medal" for the Beijing Olympics from the Japanese ... |
| 19 Jun 08 |
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself * » James Fallows I said recently that I would stop bellyaching about the air in Beijing until the beginning of next month. Then I woke up and looked out the window this morning. Here we are at 10am, June 19, 2008, fifty days before the Olympic Games are to begin: I... |
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