Olympic Information Center: links on 17 July

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- U.S. Fears Threat of Cyberspying at Olympics (WSJ)

And what about the US looking into our laptops when entering the country? - You

- Olympic condoms

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- Why the Beijing Olympics are already a success (Fool's Mountain)

- New checks eased after traffic jams (SCMP)

- 'Thank you for taking Beijing taxi' (China Rises)

- Air China, China Eastern June passenger volume down (Reuters)

- Behind the Red Door: Sex, Stakeouts and the Games (Newsweek)

- DHL Olympic Update Version 6 Now Available (AllroadsleadtoChina)

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- No 'dissident' arrested for Games' security (Sina.com)

- Final words -- for now! -- on Olympic tourism in China (James Fallows)

I guess that James Fallows had not seen reports that also the domestic tourism is expected to drop. - You

- 'Ring of steel' security surrounds Beijing (The Telegraph)

- Totally sweet new court opens in Olympic Village (Danwei)

- Beijing Concerned About Chef Shortage (MarketWatch)

- The truth about China and the Olympic Games (AsiaNews.it)

- Vice president stresses safety at Olympic venues outside Beijing (Xinhua)

- Anecdotes: visa policy is relaxing (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 16 July (second recap) (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 16 July (second recap)

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(I'm blessed with a working internet connection again and will resume postings; second and last batch of Olympic links of the past few days. More will follow.)

Travel agencies: China domestic Olympic travel falls lower than expectations (Xinhua)

China: local leaders must manage complaints better (AP)

China has 'bent' for media, so far at least (Sun Media)

Warning issued over visa restrictions to China (Travel Weekly)

China Olympics security undermines media freedoms: experts (Reuters)

China Counts the Cost of Hosting the Olympics (WSJ)

China: Locking down IDC server rooms for the Olympics (Global Voices)

Amnesty Spot Creates Olympic Headache for Ad Shop (WSJ)

Crowding China's Red Carpet (WSJ)

'Special inspection measures' at China airports from July 20 (Shanghaiist)

China could have superpowers (Danwei)

Triple security ring set up in Beijing (SCMP)

Changes to Chinese visa requirements draconian (The Vancouver Sun)

Xinhuanet trying hard & Adidas t-shirts banned during Olympics (China Visa Blog)

Mr. Wei Wei - Word of Wisdom (China Visa Blog)

Is the nation ready to be a gracious host? (SCMP)

Tudou: It Ain't About The Licenses (Pacific Epoch)

Portals Buy Olympic Rights, Insider Spills Spending Details (Pacific Epoch)

The Chinese Olympic Journey (The Fool's Mountain)

Olympic Information Center: links on 16 July (first recap) (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 16 July (first recap)

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(I'm blessed with a working internet connection again and will resume postings; first a batch of Olympic links of the past few days. More will follow.)

- Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics (CN Review)

- Getting Around China’s PSB Hotel Registration (China Briefing)

- Olympic readings (The China Beat)

- China Pre-Olympic Shutdowns. No Juice = No Product (China Law blog)

- Andrew Nathan and the Olympics (Silicon Hutong)

- Olympic Work Hours Released For Beijing (BDL media blog)

- First Olympic ticket lawsuit reaches Beijing's court (People's Daily)

- China Says Algae Cleared for Sailing (New York Times)

- Police warn citizens to beware Olympic scams (Reuters)

- Olympics ticket-scalping trade booms in China (DPA)

- For Beijing, read Athens, sometimes (The Telegraph)

- Foreign tourists are staying home (China Rises)

- BOCOG issues Olympic venue rules, banners not allowed (Xinhua)

- BOCOG's list of restricted items (Shanghaiist)

- China bans patriotic banners during Beijing Games (Daily Telegraph)

- Beijing unveils new traffic curbs (BBC)

- For some Beijingers, the Olympics are a lost opportunity (Reuters)

- Olympic vacancy in Beijing's hotels (AP)

- Games worse for hotel trade than 1989 crackdowns (SCMP via China Visa Blog)

That has been a long time ago I saw some decent coverage at the SCMP - You (edit | delete)

An interesting difference between the headline of the online South China Morning Post (Hotel trade suffering) and their paper edition: Games worse for hotel trade...

- CNBC Interview: The Real China Price and Olympic Shutdowns (Allroadsleadtochina)

- Laying out the unwelcome mat (SCMP)

- Mixed signals on getting visas to China (China Rises)

- Adidas Ad Campaign Invokes Chinese Nationalism (WSJ)

- China upbeat after opening ceremony rehearsal (Daily Times)

- China’s algae spread to resorts (Financial Times)

- Chinese Olympics: And who are they doing it for anyway? (The Telegraph)

Olympic Information Center: links on 11 July (China Herald)

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Olympic Information Center: links on 11 July

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All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport
(I will be traveling until Thursday and the Olympic information center might take a break till then.)

- We are ready #4A! Special bonus post: why travel to China is down (James Fallows)

- Olympic travails (Financial Times)

- Quicker filming permit application process (Playing the game...)

- posted one message

“Following the South China Morning Post coverage in its Olympic section, but it seems always too little, too late, compared to other sources”

- Bring it On, Beijing Style (WSJ-blog)

- Blogging from Beijing: Ithacan getting the Olympic experience (The Ithaca Journal)

Unfortunately, no rss-feed - You

- Olympic Sponsors to Benefit Under a Tougher Stance in China (NY Times)

- Olympic gold, global power (LA Times)

- After the Olympcs, what? (China Beat)

- Beijing Olympic Anti-Terrorism Exercises (Beijing Olympics Blog)

- No Salad (Cup of Cha)

- Olympic broadcasters appear to get their way (Shanghaiist)

- China Disputes Criticism Of Its Air-Pollution Data (WSJ)

- Sarkozy defends decision to attend Olympic opening (IHT)

- Beijing offers hefty rewards for security threat information during Olympics (Xinhua)

- China seeks to reassure on Olympic media freedom (Reuters)

- Who says the Chinese are smelly socks? (Telegraph blog)

- Medals And Rights (The New Republic)

- Why we're staying in China (Xinhua)

The official spindoctors in action! - You

- Xinhua has ground breaking news (China Visa Blog)

- BIMC opens for unaccredited reporters (Play the game...)

Olympic Information Center: links on 10 July (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 10 July

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- An Essential Guide to the Chinese Olympics Available Now (Market Watch)

- Beijing Olympics: China's green critics should get a grip (The Telegraph)

- Taiwan nixes China move to change Olympic name (AP)

- Beijing prepares for the no-fun Olympics (New Statesman)

- Olympic Games: China curbs Tiananmen Square live broadcasts (Times Online)

- China to expand foreign newspaper sales for games (AP)

- China detains 82 suspected terrorists targeting Olympics (AFP)

- mInfo Named Official Mobile Search Provider for Beijing Games (Digital Watch)

- China's Olympic super cop (Shanghaiist)

- Dog meat ban for Olympics (Danwei)

- Quoted: The sign of the times is no signs (Silicon Hutong)

- Making a Kevin Costner drama out of China crises (The Guardian)

- China achieves Olympian pollution levels (National Post)

- Foreign TV crews cleared to broadcast live news from Beijing (Silicon Hutong)

- Whole country rushes for the Olympic bank note (Danwei)

- Beijing Loosens Olympics Reporting Rules (WSJ)

- Beijing to expand public transport routes for Olympics (People's Daily)

- China's Silencing Season (Washington Post)

- Pre-Olympics security sweep nets foreigners, Chinese alike (Kansas City)

- Staying With Friends In China: You Have 24 Hours Or You Are On The Lam (China Law Blog)

- China's pollution Olympics (Asia Times)

- GroundReport Launches Beijing Olympics Video Contest

- We are ready #3! A short anecdote and a long email (James Fallows)

This story is very much worth your attention - You (edit | delete)

Olympic Information Center: links on 9 July (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 9 July

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All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport

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“Speaking to doctoral student at SYSU from Africa. He's talking of 200 Africans in prison here for visa overstay http://snipurl.com/2vhne”
“@CatChen 200 Nigerians in prison. Most are being held as they cannot pay the overstay fines. Catch 22”

Countdown to the Olympics (BBC)

Chinese homes open their doors to Olympic tourists (Reuters)

China's pollution claims disputed ahead of Games (The Independent)

Banned by Beijing University: Campus Tourists (WSJ-blog)

Fake Olympic torch cam (Flickr)

Protecting the nest (Shanghaiist)

Two Concerns for Olympics: Air and Access (New York Times)

RFID enabled tickets for Olympic opening and closing (Danwei)

One World, One Dream (WSJ-blog)

Sarkozy decides to go to Olympics (BBC)

Beijing: this rubbish revolution won't be permanent (Times online)

China Changes Chief Representative Visa Policy (China Briefing)

Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (2) (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (2)

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- One month before the Olympics, the dirtiest air in China is in Beijing (CNet)

- China clearing the air for Olympics (Marketplace)

- With a month to go until Olympics, China grows anxious (McClatchy)

- Obama would skip Olympics (AP)

- Crackdown on 'illegal' online Olympic content (Danwei)

- Wall Street Journal gets it wrong on Weng’an (Fool's Mountain)

- The one-month countdown begins (Reuters)

- With one month to go, IOC says it's time for Beijing to deliver on pollution, free press (CNN)

The IOC is or giving off different signals or media are making up different stories. Rather confusing. - You

- Beijing confident of clean air for Games (AFP)

- IOC hails Beijing "gold standard," China slams critics (Reuters)

- China tightens pre-Olympic airport security in Xinjiang, Tibet (DPA)

- CCTV to broadcast Olympic events live without delay (Xinhua)

Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (1) (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 8 July (1)

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- “I'm watching the South China Morning Post Olympics edition and they are more propagandistic than the China Daily”

http://olympics.scmp.com/ - You (edit | delete)

- We are ready #2! Advertisers and visas (James Fallows)

- Summer Olympics Disaster Guide (Slate)

- Digital China: Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet (Huffington Post)

- Blood Storage and Internet Censorship For Olympics (Global Voices)

- The ghost Games (The Australian)

Very thorough overview of all what is banned in Beijing - You

- Beijing Olympics weather drill to attempt rain cloud dispersal (Xinhua)

- Websites told to stop streaming torch relay (Shanghai Daily)

- Beijing 'failing pollution test' (BBC)

- Coca-Cola defends Olympics deal (BBC)

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Does the Coke chief realize that he just compared China to Nazi Germany? - sage brennan

PR is indeed an art :-) - You

Ya mean they're different? I like German wurst better than Chinese, but the Chinese noodles edge out spaetzel. - Mark Forman

- China battles algae in Olympics sailing venue (People's Daily)

Very thorough report! - You

- Citizen journalists prepare for the Olympics (Global Voices_

- public transport in Beijing (James Fallows)

Fighting bureaucracies is one of the nice things in China, although it is not the best way to run trains on time. - You

- Is Sarkozy the problem with Sino-French relations? (Global Voices)

- Xinhua's Vanishing Riot Report (Pomflet's China)

- China: Let's do push-up! (Global Voices)

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This is a classic story... these types of "movements" are unique to China's Internet. Fantastic! - sage brennan

Olympic Information Center: links on 7 July (2)(China Herald)

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Olympic Information Center: links on 7 July (2)

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- Marcel Ekkel posted a message (from Hong Kong)

“hmm on tv now: officials in china knock on doors and do spot checks to hunt for Xinjiang and TIbetans”

Any more details, links, Marcel? - You

Not yet Fons, I only heard a part of the newscast on TV and missed the source - Marcel Ekkel

- Why Manufacturers Should Pay Attention to Shanghai Blackouts (AllroadsleadtoChina)

- Inbound tourists go away and stay away for the Olympics (press release)

- Beijing Takes Major Steps For Green Olympics (Huliq)

- China gets strict on airline fleet expansion (Flight Global)

- Olympics: China opens biggest Olympic media centre (Macau Daily Times)

- China to beef up airport security before Olympics (Strait Times)

- China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics (Reuters)

- Coal-rich Shanxi faces record power shortages (Reuters)

- Mao dropped from new China note (BBC)

Olympic Information Center: links on 7 July (1) ( China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 7 July (1)

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- FACTBOX: Beijing's battle for blue skies (Reuters)

- Best of the China Blogs: July 7 (WSJ-blog)

- The new China brain drain... (Onemanbandwidth)

- Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Rail stages dry run (Beijing 2008)

- China Prepares Olympic Bible Giveaway (WSJ-blog)

- Websites warned for IPR infringement on Olympic streaming in China (Xinhua)

- Online Reins Will Tighten During Olympic Period (Digital Watch)

- China: Details on Olympic internet crackdown appear (Global Voices)

- Olympics: Whither the Great Venues? (Silicon Hutong)

- Beijing Smog 5 Times WHO Safety Limits - More Shutdowns are Certain (Allroadsleadtochina)

- Olympic themed 10 yuan notes (Danwei)

- Bush's Olympic Doctrine (Huffington Post)

- Is China ready for the Olympics? (BBC)

- Ted Koppel gives a lesson on China in a four-part Discovery Channel documentary (LA Times)

- Algae all clear from Olympics waters (Shanghai Daily)

This could be government propaganda, waiting for feedback from Qingdao - You

- Smugglers dig deep in bid to beat cross-border checks (The Standard)

- Tianjin Removes Vehicles and Closes Factories for Olympics, Tangshan Too (Allroadsleadtochina)

- China Olympic City Battles “Invading” Algae (China Digital Times)

Olympic Information Center: links on 6 July (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 6 July

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All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport

- Tianjin Removes Vehicles and Closes Factories for Olympics, Tangshan Too (Allroadsleadtochina)

- China Olympic City Battles “Invading” Algae (China Digital Times)

- Non-sponsoring drinks banned at Olympic Venues (Xinhua)

- China's love-struck looking to Olympics for marriage luck (AFP)

- China's Olympic trials (Seattle Times)

- China bullish yet anxious one month before Olympics (India Times)

- AUGUST MOON OVER BEIJING (PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM)

- Japan PM says to attend Beijing Olympic opening (Reuters)

- Bush: `Affront' to Chinese to skip Olympics start (AP)

Olympic Information Center: links on 5, 6 July (China Herald)

Olympic Information Center: links on 5, 6 July

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- Chinese asked to improve professional ethics (PTI)

- China Will Punish Unauthorized Internet Broadcast of Olympics (Bloomberg)

- Inside China: Beijing changes its spitting image (The Independent)

- China's toilet revolution as Olympics draw near (India eNews)

- Beijing gets stunning new buildings (AP)

- China Will Use Drones to Monitor Olympic Sailing Venue (VOA)

- Beijing hotels show desperation in ads (China Herald)

Just checked some prices: they are not yet really affordable. If you can hang on for a few weeks, I would not yet reserve rooms yet. - You

- Francesco Liello Responds (Shanghai Scrap)

- Who are the top earners of the Beijing Olympics? (CTV)

- SCO security officials vow to step up cooperation on Beijing Olympics (Xinhua)

- The Shoe Olympics (WSJ)

- Air Canada slashes flights to China (Canada.com)

- China to shut more factories for Olympics - Xinhua (The Guardian)

- ‘Anti-China’ groups threaten Olympics (Financial Times)

- Beijing Announces Traffic Rules to Combat Air Pollution (Global Voices)

- Olympic Information Center: links on 4 July (2) ( China Herald)