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- Income disparity getting worse: Report [China Daily]
China's Gini coefficient, a standard measure of a country's overall income inequality, rose to 0.473 in 2004 from 0.4 in 1993. - Dream of high-speed rail may prove Shanghai politician's final nightmare [IHT]
"I have a dream," Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's Communist Party secretary - since disgraced and removed from office - was fond of intoning before his aides, consciously echoing the words of Martin Luther King Jr. And as the leader of China's richest city, Chen had the power to make most of those dreams come true. But for many here, the symbolic end came this May, with the suspension of the maglev project, his greatest, and certainly his most expensive, dream. - Former Shanghai chief to stand trial on graft charges - state media [Forbes]
Former Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu is set to stand trial on charges of bribe-taking and abuse of power for his role in the city's billion-dollar pension fund scandal, state press reported. - China counts down to the Olympics [CNN]
As fireworks exploded over Tiananmen Square on Wednesday night, a troupe of 200 youthful singers on a glittering stage below belted out the theme song to mark the one-year countdown for the Beijing Olympics: "We Are Ready." Make that almost ready. The city's filthy air, which International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge warned could force the rescheduling of some events, is an embarrassment for the most expensive and anticipated Olympics in a generation. - Indian Tibetans march to shame Olympics host China [The Guardian]
Thousands of Tibetans marched through New Delhi and New York on Wednesday, shouting slogans and waving flags in protest against China's actions in Tibet at the start of the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympics. - Three Canadian protesters deported from China [CTV.ca]
Three Canadians who were detained with other activists after demonstrating against China's occupation of Tibet have been deported from the country. - Tibet asks to send its own team to Beijing [NZ Herald]
In a move sure to anger Beijing, which annexed Tibet in 1950, Tibetans in exile have formed the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Tibet and have written to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge asking him to invite Tibet to participate in the 2008 Games. - China's white dolphin likely extinct [China Daily]
The Yangtze River dolphin is now almost certainly extinct, making it the first dolphin that humans drove to extinction, scientists have now concluded after an intense search for the endangered species. - Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician dies [Forbes]
Ma Lik, the head of Hong Kong's leading pro-Beijing political party who questioned whether China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 should be called a massacre, died Wednesday, an official said. He was 55.
Photo from Shanghai Daily: How ready is Beijing for the Olympics next year?
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Beijing 2008 Summer Game is a event hosted by the people of China to display the proud of Chinese. Any political discrepancies should direct to the highest authority of China and not using the stage to dispute in front of the face of all Chinese.
Any embareassment caused at the event would have the same repercussion from the people of China. I suggest those protestors think twice of the consequence and effect.
China's rise is the worst thing to happen to the human race. Nothing good has come of it, not even cheap consumer products or easy credit. I eagerly wait the Beijing Olympics to self-destruct in a perfect storm of international activism, peasant and minority uprisings, sandstorms and toxic clouds (and toxic silver iodide rain) as well as the knee jerk big commie crackdowns that will follow.
As things stand, more and more nations intending to participate in the Olympics are making plans to fly their teams in from nearby locales (and I mean SK, Japan, Oz, Vietnam and HK) just before competitions instead of putting them in the Olympic villages to limit exposure to Beijing's chemical and biological filth and slime.
Low down, dirty, bad China.
Nanheyangrouchuan
That is so sweet. I sense deep down, Nanhe, actually cares about China. Much like an admonishing parent who hopes for a child to straighten up.
It's either that or someone needs/wants attention badly. Definition of futility: Screaming and yelling but not making a sound or difference. That is saddest of all. Never mind that as the world becomes interconnected, the ultimate failure of a country affects more than just one stakeholder. We know that you want China to fall apart into chaos. Be careful for what you wish for. In game theory, this is called a lose-lose situation.
Observer
China's desecation and the banishment of the China expat community is good for Asia and the entire human race.
nanheyangrouchuan