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Watching the QF game of the womens‘ singles at Beijing Olympics made me a little proud of my very own Mei Choo (or MC Wong as the way the organizers published her name on the scoreboard). Even when she made a few (costly) errors on the by-line, she bounced fantastically well in the second set.
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So the Olympics kicked off well. Typical of Chinese robotic mechanisms, many party-like mood has been quashed with an all too familiar efficiency. Plainclothes policemen are taking the bus and loitering the capital looking out for ’suspicious-behaving’ foreigners. Cafes and pubs which were once popular haunts for local and foreign patrons are now forced to [...]

Welcome to the Beijing Olympics! President Bush chose a rather peculiar moment to criticize China’s human rights on the eve of the opening. 19 Chinese cops died in a brutal attack north of the country. And more than 5000 individuals checked in at the Olympic Village as either athletes, coaches or games officials.
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One of my favorite papers include The Economist. Back in Feb 2001, they wrote ‘nasty’ stuff about awarding China the games - putting to parallel Berlin 1936 (and the rise of the Nazi party/ideology). Click here to read the published report.
They called China’s heavy handed rule “thuggish” and “notorious“. Criticizing their role in Human Rights [...]