Well, they're over. With the barbarian hordes headed home and 1.3 billion Chinese looking around asking "what now?" - here are a couple links to some amazing moments captured on film during the course of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The first is a slick collection from the New York Times complete with a bit of audio commentary, the second is a random collection of Olympic images (warning butts and boobies abound) …
Only two days until the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and with all the cynicism floating around - we here at Lost Laowai needed a little somethin' somethin' to ... ahem... raise our Olympic spirits. Thanks to ChineseTools.eu for helping us out. Observant readers will remember we featured these girls previously as well.
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Well, everyone and their grandma is calling the 2008 Beijing Olympics China's coming out party, and they've just been given the biggest reason yet, as it doesn't get any gayer than this.
Sorry, I don't mean to offend or misrepresent the gay community, <em>Queer Eye</em> teaches us you all have far more fashion sense than this.
This fashion faux pas of the century (and we're still early into it) is C…
There's little doubt that the 2008 Beijing Olympics have become more a political affair galvanizing views of China between "Western bias" and "blind Chinese nationalism" than anything even remotely resembling a global, peace-celebrating sporting event.
Because of this, there's been an endless barrage of reporting and blogging that has gone a long way to inciting these two opposing ends. So, it was with a bit of su…
With that title, it sort of sounds like they were holding one of those eager English-language students hostage.
Terrorist activities aside, Chinesepod.com has produced a fantastic guide to the Beijing Olympics for visitors, athletes, journalists - or just whelps like myself who can't be bothered to deal with the crowds, but wouldn't mind brushing up on how to say things like fly ball and handspring.
The guide i…
I just got finished reading that Time Out Beijing, one of the city's preeminent English-language entertainment guides, has been suspended indefinitely.
Not, as one might guess, because it had been publishing subvert-the-youth articles or anything of the sort - but simply because it wasn't properly licensed.
Fair enough.
I mean, in pretty much any country you'd need proper business licenses and if you didn't …
Hot off the extremely reliable mobile SMS chain comes news that Carrefour and the French government have banned together to concoct a special May Holiday sale to lure Chinese customers away from their boycott.
And not just that, French TV is hoping to catch it all for the 6-o'clock news, presumably to put the French people's minds at rest, and hearts at ease, that their largest shopping chain in China isn't going …
The lead-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics has spun so totally out of whack that I believe they need to add a new sport to the Games - Puerile Ping Pong.
The event pits countries from across the globe against each other in a balls-out relay race to see who can reach absolute absurdity first, all the while volleying hypocritically mundane arguments back and forth. Athletes will be judged on their ability to leap wit…
A little humour to lighten the mood about the whole thing.
H/T Pandapassport, via Hao Hao Report (like this video? Be sure to vote for it.)…
In what can only be assumed to be fear over increased problems related to the Olympic games, China has cut off multiple entry travel visas, and limited them to 30 days.
As Journey to Nowhere reports from the SCMP (which stoically continues to charge for online content):
Beijing has stopped issuing multiple-entry visas, risking major inconvenience to foreigners who travel to the mainland regularly, especially on b…
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