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Beijing unveils Paralympic medals in jade 2007-11-15 01:18:12
Medals of the 2008 Paralymic Games are unveiled by the Beijing
Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2007. (Xinhua Photo)
By Sportswriter Zhang Rongfeng
BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — In accordance with the Olympic medal style of gold and jade, the Paralympic medals unveiled here Wednesday signifying “two Olympics, same highlights”.
The design for Paralympic medals features the Beijing Paralympic emblem in the center. Jade is inserted in the face and the rear covers the emblem of International Paralympic Committee, sports disciplines, and the English, Chinese and braille versions of “Beijing 2008 Paralympics”.
The inspiration of jade inlay comes from the fracture of ancient Chinese jade article. The gold, silver and bronze medals will carry the same design, with a finer white jade in the gold medal, a slightly darker shade in silver medal, and a green jade in the bronz
Beijing bugs win Olympic gold for Rentokil 2007-11-09 01:58:23 A contract to cleanse Beijing
of its creepy-crawlies ahead of the Olympic
Games next year has lifted Rentokil to a 21 per cent increase in underlying profit.
The company said that its contract to supply the Clean Beijing campaign was powering its Asia-Pacific operations, which is one of its fastest-growing divisions.
Pre-tax profit from continuing operations reached £59.1 million in the three months to September 30, up from £48.8 million last year.
Revenue from its Asia-Pacific division rose nearly 60 per cent to £41.4 million.
Doug Flynn, the Rentokil chief executive, said: “The business in Beijing is mostly around crawling and flying insects.”
He added that there was a particular problem with German cockroaches.
“If you had an apartment in Beijing, trust me, you’d notice it.”
The deal, with the Beijing Patriotic Health Committee (BPHC), follows Rentokil’s buy-out earlier this year of Rentokil Tai Ming, a local pest control company.
The BPHC have long struggled with
Beijing launches Olympic blood drive 2007-11-09 01:55:10 BEIJING (AFP) — Beijing
has launched a drive
to boost stocks of a blood type rare in China but likely to be more common among the thousands of visitors expected here during the Olympic
s, state media reported Thursday.
Beijing Red Cross Blood Center wants to double its stocks of rhesus negative blood in time for next year’s Games, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Only 0.3 percent of ethnic Chinese have rhesus negative blood, compared to 15 percent of Caucasians, Xinhua added.
“All healthy Chinese citizens, no matter what type of blood they have, should contribute to the Olympic Games,” Yang Lan, a TV anchorwoman who is promoting the blood drive, said according to the news agency.
The centre said they would also welcome donations from foreign tourists or residents.
Beijing’s “bird’s nest” stadium to open in April 2007-11-08 00:16:44 BEIJING, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The main stadium for next year’s Beijing
Olympic Games, the $400 million &ldquo
;bird’s nest&rdquo
;, will open to the public for the first time in April
to host a test event, a state newspaper said on Thursday.
The National Stadium, nick-named the bird’s nest after the way the steel beams interlace, is expected to be the last Beijing Olympic venue to be completed. The rest will be finished by the end of this year.
The stadium would get its first taste of action at April’s International Association of Athletics Federations’ Race Walking Challenge, the Beijing Daily said, citing vice-mayor Liu Jingmin.
It would then host the 2008 China Athletics Open in May.
“These two events will be the first and the last times before the Olympics that the bird’s nest will be open to the public,” the report said.
The stadium is scheduled to open in March. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard, editing by Nick Macfie)
Hong Kong to spend millions to whip up Beijing Olympics fever 2007-11-08 00:16:12 Hong Kong (dpa) - Hong Kong is to spend more than 19 million US dollars to try to generate enthusiasm for the Olympics
ahead of next year’s 2008 games in Beijing
, officials confirmed Thursday.
Despite frantic excitement in mainland China, interest in the games has been “lukewarm” in Hong Kong even though it will host the equestrian events, government officials acknowledge.
To whip up more interest in the Olympics, the Hong Kong government now wants to spend 150 million Hong Kong dollars (19.3 million US dollars) on patriotic promotions, a spokesman said.
Torch relays and Olympic-themed carnivals and street parties will be staged and banners, bunting and decorations put up in major tourist areas in the run-up to next August’s games.
Hong Kong officials are understood to be concerned after there was a thin turnout for a trial equestrian event in August and believe the Olympic spirit in the city is “not feverish enough.”
However, they expect the situati Read more:Hong Kong
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Beijing officials dismiss reports of pampered pigs for Olympic food supply 2007-11-08 00:14:21 BEIJING - Olympic
organizers have dismissed reports that pork for Beijing
athletes will come from secret farms where pigs are specially raised on herbal medicine and daily exercise.
The Beijing Olympic organizing committee (BOCOG) has sought to defuse concerns over the safety of China’s food supply but says news of the pampered pigs were efforts by the producer to promote itself.
The reports in Chinese media are “false and an exaggeration,” and “resulted in a negative impact on society,” BOCOG said in a statement posted on its website.
“It is absolutely unnecessary for the Beijing municipal government to require companies to produce so-called special Olympic pigs,” the statement said.
Recent articles featured a Beijing-based company called Qianxihe Food Group, which is raising pork for Olympic athletes. The pigs were reportedly bred in a secret location with 24-hour security monitoring.
The reports said the pigs were fed Chinese herbal medicine Read more:officials
Olympic officials confirm Bibles will not be banned in Beijing village 2007-11-08 00:12:50 DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Olympic
Committee received confirmation from Olympic officials
Wednesday that there will be no restrictions on Bibles being brought into the Olympic village in Beijing
next year.
The USOC contacted the International Olympic Committee about the issue in response to a story posted on the Catholic News Agency Web site citing a list of prohibited items that was reported to include Bibles.
That story said the Italian daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport, reported that organizers cited “security reasons” for prohibiting athletes from carrying any kind of religious symbol at Olympic facilities. Those reports and others were producing active blog discussions on several Web sites.
USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said the federation contacted the IOC about the news reports.
“We have heard from the IOC and there will be no restriction on athletes bringing the Bible or any other religious book into the village for their personal use,” Seibel said in a te
Thousands of Chinese children named ‘Olympics’ 2007-11-06 02:48:41 Nearly 3,500 Chinese
children have been named
for the Olympics
, according to the Beijing Daily.The paper says most of the children named Aoyun (Mandarin for Olympics) are males born around 2000, when China was fighting to host the international sporting event, according to the Associated Press. The report says another 4,000 children are named after the “Five Friendlies” that serve as mascots for the 2008 Summer Games.
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Official: Demand for 2008 Olympics tickets makes first-come, first-served sales impossible 2007-11-06 02:45:46 Beijing Olympics
organizers had no choice but to cancel a first-come, first-served ticket sales policy because overwhelming demand threw the process into chaos, a senior official said in an interview published Tuesday.Sales in China will revert to a lottery system, organizers said Monday, after so many people tried to buy tickets during first-come, first-served sales last week that the computer system crashed. Ticketing officials suspended sales after less than one day.
“First-come, first-served doesn’t fit China, we can’t follow the example of other countries,” Wei Jizhong, a member of the IOC Olympic program commission who is a senior adviser to Beijing organizers, was quoted as saying by the state-run Beijing News.
The policy works when demand is low, he said, but the Beijing Olympics has been hotly anticipated since the city won the bid in 2001. Excitement is so high that nearly 3,500 children in China have been named “Aoyun,” meaning Olympics, s Read more:impossible
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FIVB presents new balls designed for Beijing Olympics 2007-11-06 02:43:53
TOKYO — The International Federation de Volleyball (FIVB) on Monday presented to the media new balls which had been designed
for the 2008 BeijingOlympics
.
FIVB President Dr. Rubén Acosta with the new Mikasa ball for volleyball. [FIVB.org]
“Together with our sponsor Mikasa, we’ve studied a new type of ball for our sport,” FIVB President Ruben Acosta told reporters on Monday. “We will ask the teams to test the prototypes and report to us their feelings.”
“Volleyball was the first sport to use a colored ball and other sports followed us. Now it is time for new visions, with a new design and a different technological process that could affect positively not only the appeal of volleyball, but also the ball control by players. Our plan is to use this new ball as a major change for the next Olympic Games in Beijing,” he added.
Two different designs were showed to the press and will be presented to teams taking part in the World C
Australia, Japan, South Korea All Book Beijing Olympic Tickets 2007-11-22 00:57:18 The trio all clinched qualification on Wednesday. Australia
were the first to book their ticket with a 1-1 draw in North Korea
to finish top of Group A, three points ahead of Iraq.
South
Korea drew 0-0 at home to Bahrain to clinch top spot in Group B and a sixth consecutive Olympic
appearance.
The Koreans were unbeaten in the group but drew their last three matches 0-0.
Japan
won Group C by a two-point margin and clinched their place in the Chinese capital with a 0-0 draw at home to Saudi Arabia.
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, South Korea
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Beijing Olympics spurs TV advertising bonanza 2007-11-19 20:43:24 Beijing (dpa) - State-run China Central Television (CCTV) won a record 8.03 billion yuan (1.07 billion dollars) at its annual auction of prime-time advertising slots, as the approach of next year’s Olympic Games spurred an 18-percent rise from last year, state media said on Monday.
Air China, the country’s flagship airline, paid 36.7 million yuan (4.9 million dollars) for a slot immediately after the national evening news next August, the Beijing News said.
“When you consider that that August 2008 is month of the Olympics
, it makes the whole year into a bumper one for advertising,” the newspaper quoted Xia Hongbo, head of advertising for CCTV, as saying at Sunday’s auction.
The broadcaster earned about 6.8 billion yuan (915 million dollars) from 180 companies at its annual auction of prime-time advertising last year, up 16 per cent from 2005.
US cosmetics giant Procter and Gamble spent 420 million yuan (57 million dollars) last year, keeping its place as C Read more:Beijing
, bonanza
Beijing holds forum on Olympic education 2007-11-26 23:40:36
A forum on the significance and methods of carrying out Olympic
education was held in Beijing
on November 24.
Du Songpeng, deputy director of the Beijing Education committee, speaks during the Olympic Educational forum in Beijing on November 24, 2007. [BOCOG]
Officials from the United Nations Education Scientific and Education Organization, International Olympic Committee, London Olympic Games Organizing Committee, and local educational administrations participated the meeting co-hosted by Beijing municipal government and Humanistic Olympic Study Center(HOSC) the Renmin University of China.
Also present were the designer of the National Aquatics Center, John Bilmon of Australia and education experts from home and overseas.
Beijing, China’s capital and host of the 2008 Olympic Games, is playing a major role in promoting the Olympics among the 1.3 billion people living in China.
According to Du Songpeng, deputy director of the Beijing Education Committee, 200 primary Read more:holds
China Mobile to add base stations to ensure 3G for Beijing Games - consultants 2007-12-04 03:10:57 BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - ChinaMobile
plans to build 2,059 outdoor base stations and 1,015 indoor distributed systems In Beijing
and the region to ensure
the availability of 3G services during the Olympic Games
next summer, CCID Consulting said in a research note.
The typical cost of a base station is about 860,000 yuan, including accessory equipment, it said.
To avoid interference between different TD-SCDMA experimental networks, networks built by China Netcom (NYSE:CN) would be brought into China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA commercial experimental network, the consulting firm added.
China has yet to issue permanent licences for 3G service. It is widely believed to be waiting for the homegrown TD-SCDMA technology to mature before opening up the 3G market to all 3G platforms.
However, the government reiterated recently that it will issue 3G licenses in time to allow for the service to be launched before the Olympics.
Olympic Sports Center Stadium 2007-12-21 03:57:30
    Venue: OlympicSportsCenterStadium
    Location: Southern part of Olympic Sports Center
    Seats: 40,000
    Functions during the Games: Football, Modern Pentathlon (running and equestrian)
Cheerleaders for Olympic Games in competition 2007-12-21 03:53:03
Young cheerleaders perform during a competition
, to select cheerleader groups who will have the chance to perform during the upcoming OlympicGames
, in a Beijing shopping mall Nov. 17, 2007. The Beijing Olympics are expected to turn a profit of about 20 million U.S. dollars to 30 million dollars, according to a senior Games organiser.
Young cheerleaders look at their competitors during a competition, to select cheerleader groups who will have the chance to perform during the upcoming Olympic Games, in a Beijing shopping mall Nov. 17, 2007. The Beijing Olympics are expected to turn a profit of about 20 million U.S. dollars to 30 million dollars, according to a senior Games organiser. (Source: chinadaily.com.cn/Agencies) Read more:Cheerleaders
One world one dream 2007-12-20 01:06:38
    ”One World One Dream” fully reflects the essence and the universal values of the Olympic spirit — Unity, Friendship, Progress, Harmony, Participation and Dream. It expresses the common wishes of people all over the world, inspired by the Olympic ideals, to strive for a bright future of Mankind. In spite of the differences in colors, languages and races, we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games, and together we seek for the ideal of Mankind for peace. We belong to the same world and we share the same aspirations and dreams.
    ”One World One Dream” is a profound manifestation of the core concepts of the Beijing Olympic Games. It reflects the values of harmony connoted in the concept of “People’s Olympics”, the core and soul of the three concepts — “Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics and People’s Olympics”. While “Harmony of Man with Nature” and “Peace Enjoys Priority” are
Olympic souvenirs popular among gift buyers 2007-12-20 01:04:12
Two customers consult a set of Olympic
souvenirs at Beiguo Plaza in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province Dec. 14, 2007. As the end of the Year 2007 draws near and the expectations of the 2008 Olympic Games among citizens, lots of local residents choose Olympic souvenirs as gifts for families and friends as well as themselves. According to the employees of Beiguo Plaza, over 2000 Olympic souvenirs have been sold this month.
A customer chooses Olympic souvenir at Beiguo Plaza in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province Dec. 14, 2007. As the end of the Year 2007 draws near and the expectations of the 2008 Olympic Games among citizens, lots of local residents choose Olympic souvenirs as gifts for families and friends as well as themselves. According to the employees of Beiguo Plaza, over 2000 Olympic souvenirs have been sold this month.
Two girls appreciate a Olympic souvenir at Beiguo Plaza in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Read more:popular
viagogo-Get your concert and sport ticket online 2007-12-19 20:39:18 How do you spend your weekend ? What about going to a concert or watch a football game? I found a website called viagogo.co.uk , It is a leading ticket hub in Europe . This company matches buyers and sellers of concert tickets, sport
s tickets, theatre tickets and more. You could easily get concert ticket, sports ticket (Tennis Tickets, football ticket, RBS six nations, Golf Tickets , my favorite– Formula 1 Tickets , and so forth ) .
Great , Ahh? More than that!! If you can’t make your show , you could exchange your ticket to others!! Viagogo.co.uk allow people to buy and sell live event tickets in a safe way.  Why I say “safe” ? When you buy a ticket or win an auction and receive a confirmation email send from them, they makes sure that you receive your ticket on time for the event. If a problem arises and you do not get your ticket on time , they will give your a  similar or better tickets at the same cost.If you want to sell your ticket , they coll Read more:online
Film industry in HK voices support for Beijing Olympics 2007-12-19 00:53:37
    HONG KONG, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) — More than 200 film-makers, show-biz stars and artistes voiced their support and blessings to the Beijing
2008 Olympic Games at a reception here Monday night, vowing to play a role in promoting the Beijing Olympics
.
    The “Welcoming Olympic Christmas Reception” was hosted by the Hong Kong Film Development Council and officiated by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald Tsang and President of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, Timothy Fok.
    Chairman of the Film Development Council Jack So said that although unrelated at first glance, the Olympic Games and the film industry
shared common ground - they are both cradles for talent.
    ”Film stars and sports elite both have the determination to strive for excellence and record-breaking success,” So said, adding “the exciting Olympic Games and blockbusters of Hong Kong have always been ab
Teaching about the Beijing Olympics reaches deep into China’s schools 2007-12-19 00:52:39 BEIJING - The students at Yangfangdian school are doing their homework for the Olympics
.
A replica of a Mediterranean-style orchard recalls ancient Olympia and dominates a corner of the school’s courtyard. Inside, pupils bone up on Germany, the country they’ve been assigned to support when the Beijing
Games open Aug. 8.
“The most important thing about the Olympics is to take part and not just to win,” said nine-year-old Chen Jiayu, the red scarf of the Young Pioneers, the communist youth organization, tied around her neck. “The other players and opponents are also our friends.”
Hosting the Olympics is a source of immense national pride in China
, reaching deep into the schools where values like friendship, fair competition and excellence are taught alongside patriotism and loyalty to China’s one-party political system.
Students point proudly as they walk through the school’s version of a Greek arbour, with plastic grapes overhead. Named th
China eyes Olympic Games glory through haze 2007-12-19 00:51:25 The hardest part is yet to come for Beijing Olympic
organisers, heading into 2008 with all plans in place but potential pitfalls aplenty in the run-up to the August Games
.Traffic congestion, closely linked to air quality, food security, media freedom and human rights as well as boycott calls are issues likely to flare up again over the coming months.
The darkest cloud of all is the thick blanket of pollution that regularly shrouds Beijing, forcing some competitors to scale down preparations in China
and potentially scaring off others from even making the trip.
Even so, the Beijing Olympic organising committee swings into the new year with praise from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ringing in its ears and real confidence that it can meet every challenge to its stated goal of showing off a “new Beijing, great Olympics.”
“I believe that we can overcome all difficulties, all risks, and run a very sound and successful Olympic Games next year,” Jiang Xiaoyu Read more:glory
Qingdao 2008-02-20 03:05:45 Qingdao, also known as Tsingdao, is a coast city 550-kilometer southeast of Beijing with an urban population of 2.7 million. Possessing China’s fifth largest port, Qingdao hosts an array of China’s big brands like Hair and Qingdao Beer.
Qingdao was declared Beijing’s partner city to bid for the 2008 Olympic Games in July of 2000, a [...]
Olympic venue construction costs 13 bln yuan 2008-02-17 20:36:56 Construction workers labor in front of the National Stadium nicknamed the “Bird’s Nest” under construction for the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games in Beijing, China, in this Jan. 12, 2007 file photo.
The construction of the venues for the 2008 Olympic Games cost less than 13 billion yuan (about 1.8 billion U.S. dollars), Beijing vice mayor Chen [...]
Tourism booth promoting China at Madrid 2008-02-17 20:33:22 Visitors walk past a tourism booth promoting China
at Madrid
’s 28th International Tourism
Fair (Fitur) in Madrid, Spain, on Jan. 30, 2008. The 28th annual FITUR gathering 13,300 enterprises from 170 countries opened here on Wednesday with an expectation of some 200,000 visitors. This five-day fair becomes a great business center, creating the ideal framework [...]
“Water Cube” hosts 1st test event 2008-02-02 02:38:56 A volunteer talks to his co-worker, dressed as a Beijing 2008 Olympic Games mascot, during the Good Luck Beijing 2008 Swimming China Open at the National Aquatics Centre, nicknamed the “Water Cube,” in Beijing Jan. 31, 2008. The Olympic venue for swimming, diving and synchronised swimming at the Beijing Games opened with a test event
[...]
Olympic basketball venue equipped with funnel-shaped TV screens 2008-01-29 01:32:02 To meet the demands of the Olympic
Games and post-Games competitions, the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium has been equipped with a unique multi-color and high-definition LED display system.
The three-component system, the first of its kind in China, includes a funnel-shaped 22-ton TV display with eight screens; a 270m-long display system around the stands; and a [...]
Olympic basketball venue ready 2008-01-24 02:45:57 (BEIJING, Jan. 11) — Beijing Olympic
Basketball Gymnasium, the venue for the Olympic basketball preliminaries and finals, is ready
for pre-Olympic events.
Covering an area of 168,000 sq m, the gymnasium has three floors underground and four floors aboveground, with capacity for 18,000 spectators.
Entering Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium, one first notices the funnel-shaped LED display system. [...]
Olympic branch line of Beijing metro unveiled 2008-01-16 03:51:05 Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2008 shows the Olympic
Green station of the Olympic branch line of Beijingmetro
, capital of China. The metro construction deparment of Beijing invited journalists to pay a visit to the Line 10, Olympic branch line and Airport line of Beijing metro on Tuesday. The three metro lines will be [...] Read more:unveiled
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