The hopes of 1.3 billion Chinese people rested on the shoulders of Liu Xiang, the golden boy of China’s Track and Field. Today, 90000 strong crowd cramped into the Bird’s Nest in anticipation. Many more had their eyes glued to the television. They expect him to breeze past the qualifying rounds and finally face Dayron [...]

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Has anyone watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing Nest stadium? It’s the most amazing opening ceremony that I’ve ever seen! One of my favourite was “footprints” fireworks “walking” towards the Bird Nest. The arrangement for China National Gymnast LiNing to bear the last torch to light up the Olympic Flame was greatly done by [...]

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Since I make a post about “Where to watch Olympic opening ceremony in Shanghai“, I received more then 600 unique visitors these 2 days. I also notice a lot of traffic from the States typing the keyword “where to watch Olympic opening online”. I founded on CCTV.com, they broadcasts the opening ceremony of the games [...]

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The olympic torch relay began its last stretch in Beijing yesterday afternoon, handed over to the first bearer Yang Liwei, the country’s first Astronaut at the landmark Forbidden city, once home of China Emperors! First torch bearer Yang Liwei – Source:Xinhua The flame will travel in the host city for three days before the opening [...]

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2008 is the year China hosts the Olympics. Most of the focuses, so far, have been on spectacular structures (ex. Bird’s Nest & Water Cube) and the extraordinary efforts & investment by the Chinese officials to make the Beijing Olympics successful. However, let us not forget that the Olympics are a celebration of humanity. The [...]

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The 2008 Olympics is THE event of the century in China. The authorities are doing everything they can to make sure that absolutely nothing goes wrong. During this period, factories have been told to stop production. People have been told to drive less and use public transportation. Heck! Local Chinese are even told to learn [...]

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A police officer in Beijing who can greet tourist in 13 languages was interviewed by CNN. He never took any language classes, but taught himself through watching foreign movies. He was determinded to leave a positive impression on visitors to Beijing. The coming olympic in Beijing has spur English language fever in China. As they [...]

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