Visibility improving in Beijing... Blue skys (semi) for 4 days running

July 15, 2008 -- 23 Days to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympics -- Reuters






July 8, 2008 -- One Month to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympics -- Reuters

China... ready to show off the results of Beijing's pre-Olympic construction boom

Photos and descriptions obtains from Xinhua, China's state media.

Beijing's Olympic "Forest Park"

Photo taken on July 6, 2008 shows courtyard houses "knitted" with pipes at the man-made sinkage square in the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, capital of China. The sinkage square is dubbed as "palace under ground", or "the corridor for traditional Chinese arts", which has its seven "exhibition courtyards" like ancient-styled Chinese palace gate, booth, chime, red walls in line, displaying traditional Chinese culture and arts to athletes and visitors from around the world. (Xinhua Photo)

China Central Television headquarter building

China Millennium Monument-Great Altar

Terminal 3 -- Beijing Capital International Airport

National Center for the Performing Arts

Bejing Prepares to Deliver -- Reuters

Reuters Video

Jul 8 - One month to go until the Olympics and Beijing prepares to deliver the games as worries about pollution persist.

In the wake of concern voiced by some of the games participants Chinese state media reported that two key measures of pollution had fallen slightly in what the country's environmental regulator cast as a victory in the right for more sustainable development.

Beijing expects to play host to between 450,000 and 500,000 overseas visitors during the August Olympics, only marginally up from the 420,000 who came in the same period last year.

Tyra Dempster reports.

China's Muslim Uighur minority, call for Olympic boycott... not just Tibet

Beijing 2008 - Olympic Games in Focus: Video updates on developments relating to the 2008 games

Apologies but today I am updating this site using predominantly the news which grabbed my attention this evening, and which I would have ordinarily included in a typical analysis with. Sadly I was stuck in traffic the entire day moving around the North Eastern United States along with 1000's of other gas guzzling behemoths.


1. Pollution worries continue to plague China's upcoming games -- Reuters




2. Beijing residents protest as urbanization plans of the central government force residents and shop keepers to move in preparation for further large scale construction projects -- Reuters




3. Beijing fights back- central government in the process of planting a "green wall" around Beijing -- Reuters

China -- China embraces Spanish culture -- Will olympic broadcasts be able to go live?

Reuters Video's of the day - June 19th -- Region/topic: China


China Embraces Spanish Culture -- Reuters Video -- "Chinese say Ole! to all things Spanish!"






Beijing Olympics in focus -- will journalists and press be able to broadcast live? Chinese officials respond with their usual foggy answers... "beating around the bush so to speak." -- Reuters