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Live goldfish inside unofficial Olympic keychains
In a similar bit of news to my earlier post on the Chinese fish necklaces, traders in Qingdao have also begun selling live fish inside keychains. Qingdao is the site for the Olympic sailing events for the Beijing 2008 games.
Tags: china, chinese, 2008, beijing, food, live, games, olympic, fashion, olympics
Japan's Kitajima wins double-double
Asia's greatest swimmer Kosuke Kitajima stole some of the spotlight away from Michael Phelps on Thursday by stamping his authority on the Olympics breaststroke with an unprecedented double-double.
China claimed four more gold medals yesterday, and most papers chose to feature the women's gymnasts, who won the country its first gold in the women's team event yesterday by beating out the US and Romania.
Tags: china, chinese, world, us, 2008, media, girls, women, series, men, olympic, olympics, art, list, history, gold, photo, heroes
China's Liu apologises after Olympics pull out, vows to rise again
Chinese athletics hero Liu Xiang has apologised to his fans for pulling out of the Olympics with an "unbearable" foot injury, while vowing to rise again.
Spanish teams make racist "slant eyes" gestures
The Spanish men's and women's Olympic basketball team and 2008 Federation Cup Tennis women's team posed for pictures making the ever offensive slate eye gesture.
Tags: china, people, chinese, 2008, beijing, media, women, international, games, men, summer, olympic, olympics, youtube, rain, game, photo, advertisement, basketball, tennis
Beijing Olympics Flash Drive Souvenirs
Lenovo have created Olympic-themed flash drives. As noted by Core77, these information storage devices are ironically endorsed by a Communist regime that likes to censor information.
Taiwanese Player Tests Positive For Banned Substance While Team Blanks Dutch Anyway, Canada Cruises
The island's baseball association has applied to WADA to have Chang take another urine test, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.nThe player may have taken a Chinese cold medication that contains....
Tags: japan, chinese, games, taiwan, olympic, olympics, problem, taiwanese, test, baseball, illegal, canada, banned
Spain Basketball Team's Racist Gesture
Several Asian American bloggers (thanks to AngryAsianMan for first pointing it out) and now, major news organizations such as ABC News and the New York Times, have been covering this emerging controversy: Spain's Olympic basketball...
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American protesters taken away in Beijing
Chinese security forces dragged away nfive U.S. pro-free Tibet protesters who blocked the entrance to a northern Beijing park on Wednesday, breaking up the latest ...
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Retail Versions of the Olympic Birds Nest and Water Cube
The Chinese are copying themselves this time with these retail editions of The Birds Nest and Water Cube designs!
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The World Cosplay Summit was held earlier this month in Nagoya Japan, and Sonnya Paz and Renee Gloger — two girls from Queens — represented the USA. Now, Sonnya and Renee have returned to the US and want to share their cosplay...
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Asian Americans Reporting on the Beijing Olympics
As I had blogged on the Opening Ceremonies, I was a bit disappointed that NBC's China analyst didn't happen to be a Chinese American. But if you haven't noticed, there have been Asian Americans reporting for Beijing for NBC...
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The essay is by Ann Condi who has extensive experience working inside Chinese state media. You can read a previous essay by Condi on Danwei: Self-censorship: the 2,000 pound rhinoceros on the dining table.
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Kosuke Kitajima trains with Nintendo Wii
I would definitely consider Kosuke Kitajima the face of Japanese olympics this year. Kitajima lived up to expectations and took gold for the 100m breaststroke. When preparing for the Olympics, it takes years of tough...
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BLOG ADMIN NOTE: Blogger's comment function is very screwed up: it does not show comments when I in fact have them, and it also invariably shows fewer comments than I actually have.It was a gorgeous day today...
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Girl who wowed Olympic opening lip-synced
A little girl and her song captivated millions of viewers during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. But what they saw was not what they heard.
An infuriated South Korea: Is this how to conduct diplomacy with neighbors?
WE'VE ALL KNOWN people who just can't get along with anybody. They always seem to be embroiled in an overblown feud over some petty issue with a neighbor or coworker. They tend to have frequent misunderstandings...
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Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland
The streets are clean, the people are smiling, the transportation is free and the staff is able and willing to answer any and all questions. Is this Beijing or Disneyland?
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NOVELIST AND AUTHOR Mark Mordue has some discouraging words about the Beijing Olympics in an op-ed piece appearing in The Age (of Australia) titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:n(T)hese Games are about symbolically ...
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Lin Miaoke: Does This Count As Human Rights Violations?
Seriously, I want to know: Chen Qigang, the music director for the fantabulous opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics has admitted that the young, oh-so-cute girl singing China's national anthem was actually just lip-syncing.
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