Share An article appears on Sydney Morning Herald reflects on how the western media have been handling the “chubby face, crooked teeth” incident. Hope we can see more of these self-reflections from the western media. (Related CIV discussion here.) The title of the story is: Western media shows its ugly face Here’s an excerpt (full [...]
Share While Beijing might have used one girl to mime another to sing on the Olympic opening ceremony, Sydney used an entire orchestra to mime for another on stage during the 2000 Olympic’s opening show. Australia’s newspaper The Age uncovered this shocking news, and yet, the musicians asked to sign “confidentiality agreement” weren’t allowed to [...]
Share Bloomberg – A Chinese Olympic gymnastics champion whose age is under investigation had her date of birth incorrectly registered at a tournament last year, leading to inaccurate reports of her age, Chinese officials said today. The International Olympic Committee this week asked the international gymnastics ruling body to probe the age of He Kexin [...]
Share AP – Being a young gymnast wasn’t always a bad thing. Nadia Comaneci, after all, was just 14 when she scored a perfect 10 to win gold in Montreal. The philosophy of the time was old enough to vault, old enough to compete. The way a budding age scandal has clouded the gymnastic competition [...]
Share Wow! Quite a scene! Three Chinese flags are raised for gold medalist Zhang Yining, silver medalist Wang Nan, and bronze medalist Guo Yue, during the medal presentation of the women’s singles table tennis competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing,Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) Tags: China, Olympic
Share What do you think about this one?? I don’t want to believe it but…. According to this Hong Kong blogger (in Chinese), Chinese netizens have been digging out a lot of evidence, including info released previously by the General Administration of Sports of China in 2006. In that article titled “2006 list of registered [...]
Share An extremely funny and insightful post from macedoniaonline.eu: Please read on, you won’t regret :) China Fakes Olympics – US Fakes Most Everything Are you enjoying watching the fake Olympics? By “fake,” of course, I’m referring to all the fabrications that have emerged since the opening of the event. Each day, it seems, brings [...]
Share I’m completely appalled by some comments made by Mr Cheuk Kwan to the Globe and Mail today in an article/discussion titled “Has Chinese patriotism changed?” I don’t agree with many points Mr Kwan raised but I respect his opinions. However, I cannot remain silent on his statements quoted as follows, which in my opinion, [...]
Share I particularly admire Chretien for having the gut to point out that “We are at the bottom of the ladder in terms of having any influence with China.” I always have a problem with those who believe Canada is influential in international affairs. We might want to, but please get real and don’t overblow [...]
Share Ha ha. Now it’s our turn to taste the bitterness of foreign media having too much interest in our “dark sides”. Some of us who might not see why the Chinese have been upset about western media’s attention on China’s negativities, now it’s a chance to learn. “No one is suggesting this is something [...]
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