Dialogue of the Day: BBC grills Qin Gang
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Music: Indie China Showcase at Yu Yin Tang
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The Opening Ceremony
Reuters: World media hails Beijing's perfect night
China Daily: Zhang rises to greatest directorial challenge
The Guardian: Patriot games: China makes its point with greatest show
BBC: Spectators awed as Games begin
The Hindu: Games get off to a cracking start
AFP: Beijing's Games kick off with spectacular opening ceremony
The Independent: Opening ceremony: the meaning behind the spectacle
LA Times: An Olympics, at least, for the people, about the people
The Times: Olympics: the power and the glory - China leaves world awestruck
Edmonton Sun: Olympic opening ceremonies the best ever
Irish Times: Controversy takes back seat as Olympics get off to a flying start
Globe and Mail: Fiery reaction on the streets
TIME China Blog: "I'd never think we'd have a day like this"
WSJ Blog: The Grand Li Ning Finale
The Business
NPR: Many Ask If Olympic Sponsorship Is Worth Cost
The Telegraph: Beijing Olympics: The ultimate business networking opportunity
BusinessWeek: Analysis: Why Olympic Sponsors Won't Get the Gold in China
The Moscow Times: Olympic Sponsorship Worth More Than Gold
ABC News: Sponsors Win Big With Coveted Olympic Partnerships
The Fashion Olympics
WSJ: Best and worst dressers at the opening ceremony (slideshow)
The Weather
Bloomberg: Worst Olympic Heat Since '96 Brings Bad Air to Games
NineMSN: Beijing shrouded in smog 'white-out'
The Protesters and the Dissidents
Reuters: Turkish man sets self on fire in anti-China protest
The Evening Standard: Banker's daughter arrested in Beijing protest
AP: Anti-China protests worldwide as Olympics begin
Reuters: "Blood" Olympics protested in India and Nepal
The Guardian: Olympic protests held around the world
CNN: Nepal: More than 1,000 Tibet protesters held
AP: Mia Farrow shows alternative 'Darfur Olympics'
The Independent: Dissident invites Olympic chief to visit jail
AFP: Hong Kong detains US-based Chinese dissident: rights group
Elsewhere in China
Yahoo! Sports: An Olympics of hope for earthquake victims
AP: Beijing couples rush to tie knot on lucky 08-08-08
Mercury News: Away from stadium, mood in Beijing is muted
Financial Times: Olympics cast a pall over Shanghai
WSJ: Shanghai’s Olympic-Sized Selloff
Elsewhere around the world
Reuters: China invokes Olympics in urging South Ossetia ceasefire
Boston Globe: Romney calls on China to reconsider revoked visa
Economic Times: Olympics 2008: India more hooked to Games than China
The London Olympics
RTE: Olympic officer calls for end of global torch relay
UPI: 2012 Olympic torch to stay in Britain
The Telegraph: London Olympics torch relay may be confined to Britain
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I was in awe of the opening ceremony. It was a true spectacle that all the people of China should be proud of.
I'd have to say it was pretty kick ass.
Director Zhang Yi Mou put Spielberg in shame.
It was extravagant and absolutely fabulous. Well done China! All the hard work really paid off!
What was so special about a hyper Spring Festival show?
It was pretty, but much too ethnocentric, and more of a celebration of the "cult of Chinese culture" than anything else.
The emphasis on the four inventions and ethnic unity was overwrought and just more propaganda and lies from the thugs and goons in Beijing. "Look at how happy our stinking little poor, stupid, culturally-inferior, exploited minority people are!" says China, "See how much they love China too!" Fuck you.
If you asked the man or woman who supposedly invented any of the so-called "four inventions of ancient China" where he or she was from, he or she would definitely not answer "China" and they would not answer in Chinese. Nor is there any concrete evidence that these were not adopted from elsewhere.
As it is, most Chinese IP is begged, borrowed and stolen from the rest of the world, so what's changed? They're grasping for straws and would claim to have invented fire and the wheel if it weren't so overtly stupid.
I tried to watch the opening ceremonies with an open mind, but was sickened by all of the hatred and lies woven into the cult of Chinese culture.
To Vera,
Your desperation, fear, hatred, anger and jealousy to a rising boy next door are so obvious for all to see that I wonder how you managed to fall in sleep that night in your dark and rotten room, like your step-dad Daliar Lama.
How would your type be called under daylight? Oh yes, narrow-minded small man.
Fuck you, by a "thugs and goons".
Ugh, I hate to do this as usually Eastman is an ignorant prick, but this time i think I almost agree with him. Vera, while you have the right to that opinion and if thats what floats your boat, so be it. But if the way you comment is any indication of how you really are, then I pity you. ...but not as much as i pity Eastman.
---yu888
The problem with you in your life time was you could never make yourself remembered, until you found the 888, lol!
turns out that much of what we saw as far as fireworks was fake computer graphics.
http://tinyurl.com/5rjljb
China is one big fake piece of shit.