Beijing has to really step up the effort to eradicate bad English or Chinglish on public signs before next year Beijing Olympics. Pixikill has plenty of pictures to show us the current situation in Beijing.
I believe that Beijing can do it! Go Beijing Go!
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The 17-day Summer Olympic Games ranks second in the world’s most valuable sporting event brands and values at $176 million by Forbes. However, next Summer Olympics in Beijing is expected to generate $3 billion in total revenue, an amount that surpasses any other sporting event.
In terms of total revenue, next summer’s Olympics will rake in more than any other sporting event, $3 billion. The Beijing games will leverage their global audience with $1.7 billion from broadcasters, a record for the Olympics.
Sports and Cash go hand in hand, isn’t it?
Via Light the Torch, Forbes
Jackie Chan wants a piece of action in the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008. So he decides to qualify for the Olympics by giving table tennis (ping pong), hockey, soccer and gymnastics a shot. However, the easiest way to the Olympics is still…Visa.
Via Campaign Brief
Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) is going to organize a large immunisation program for the 800-strong Australian Olympic team which is heading for 2008 Olympics at Beijing next year.
“In the coming months we will make available to the 1000 potential team members vaccinations for hepatitis, typhoid, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella and influenza to ensure we minimise the chance of our athletes catching any infection that could affect performance,” said AOC chef de mission John Coates.
It’s better to be safe than sorry.
Westerners will not be charged extra for next year Beijing Summer Olympics. More than 7 million tickets are up for grabs this year. Tickets’ prices will be released on 29th November via the official Olympic website with more than 58% of the total tickets going for less than $13.
“If Chinese and Westerners are charged different prices, it will not honor the Olympic spirit,” said Beijing Vice Mayor Liu Jingmin.
Fairness in a nutshell.
Via ArcaMax
Olympic officials from North and South Korea failed to reach an agreement for an unified Korea team to represent both countries in the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008. The reason? Difference in views. However, further talks are possible, we just don’t know when.
South Korea has insisted athletes should be selected based on performance, while the North wants equal representation.
They have to strive for a consenus. Period.
Hordes of volunteers in China are supporting the “No Queue-Jumping” campaign. In other words, lining up in an orderly manner will be seen as nice and this gesture will form a good impression to foreign visitors who go to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, at least that’s how the Chinese public has perceived.
The campaign was launched under the slogan: “It’s civilised to queue, it’s glorious to be polite.”
The Olympics is seen as an opportunity to showcase China to the world.
If you have gone to Singapore, you can see that Singaporeans always queue. No matter if they are waiting for S$2 Char Kway Teow (fried flat noodles) or movie tickets, they always queue. I believe China can bring the “Qing” culture to a perfection, or as good as Singapore.
Via BBC News, Jen’s Den of Iniquity
Just as when IOC is contemplating if athletes are allowed to blog at next year Beijing Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee has decided not to let Australian athletes blog at the Games. To be more specific, the Aussies are banned from blogging during the competition period.
“Blogging would erode the sanctuary of the Olympic village,” said the secretary-general of the Australian Olympic Committee, Craig Phillips.
I wonder if problogger, Darren Rowse, also an Australian, has anything to say about this ban.
Via Graham Jones, BBC News
International Olympic Committee (IOC) is looking at allowing Olympics athletes to blog and express their views, feelings and rantings during the Beijing Olympics Games through their blogs.
It’s a delicate issue. The IOC doesn’t want to step on the toes of the traditional media, and there’s a fear the athlete’s village could turn into a battle zone of dueling blogsters.
The combined charisma of the athletes’ blogs can attract millions of eyeballs and this in turn, can generate lots of cash for everyone. But even if they are allow to blog, will their blogs be censored? Probably.
Via Bloggers Blog, AP
Beijing Olympics baseball cap and merchandise are already making their way online. T-shirts, caps, towels and many more are stamped with either the Beijing 2008 Olympics emblem, Beijing 2008 or anything to do with “Beijing”, “Olympics”, “2008″ or even “Panda”.
This Olympic T-shirt sports a panda on the back and the official 2008 Beijing Olympics logo on the front.
Anyway, Panda is really cute especially baby pandas. Erm, yah.
Via China Sprout
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