Safe Drinking Water For Beijing Olympics 2008

News March 18th, 2007

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Oympics athletes can drink in peace, that is, the water that is supplied to the Olympics village will be safe for drinking, as the Beijing government promises. Currently, Beijing is frivolously replacing rusty, old pipes with sparkling, new ones.

The Beijing Water Works Group, responsible for ensuring the city’s water supply, has earmarked US$256 million to upgrade the city’s water system to guarantee sufficient supplies during the games next August, and a further US$22 million to repair leaky water pipes.

Water is still the most important element for the human body. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

Via Channelnewsasia.com

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The 4 Highly Bad Habits Of The Beijing Public

News March 16th, 2007

Beijing Olympics officials may slap fines on people who are caught spitting in the public of Beijing if the present situation does not improve. However, spitting is a natural reaction to Beijing’s dirty air, according to those living in the city. One government advisor, Zi Huayun, says:

Four key bad habits of Chinese: spitting, not waiting in line, widespread smoking and swearing in the Beijing dialect.

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Can Beijing eradicate these “effective” habits in time for the Games? I hope so.

Via APP.COM

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Ticketmaster Sells Beijing Olympics 2008 Tickets Online, Hopes To Enter China Market

Business, News March 14th, 2007

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Global ticket online seller, Ticketmaster, has teamed up with two firms of China to sell tickets of the Beijing Summer Olympics online. A Chinese website is in the works to sell millions of the Games tickets to the Chinese population. But the main goal of the US based company is to penetrate the Chinese online market which saw various big boys such as eBay and Google thrown in their towels.

The global ticket seller, owned by e-commerce conglomerate IAC, (IACI) won a bid nine months ago to serve as the exclusive supplier of ticketing services to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Ticketmaster hopes to use the project to leverage more business in China.

At least this is a huge first step for foreign online companies to ride the Chinese wave.

Via Investor’s Business Daily

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Janusz River Cycles All The Way To Beijing Olympics

News March 3rd, 2007

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Janusz River, 70, has set the goal to cycle from Europe to Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong and finally to Beijing, China for the Summer Olympics 2008 opening ceremony. Of course, he has a solid reason behind all these cycling.

The major reason why he is doing all this is that he does want to be found dead in front of the TV in his house, Mr. River says. He would rather die `on the road’ beside his beloved bicycle with its German-made puncture-proof tyres.

What a man!

Via The Hindu

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