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10th September 2007

Olympic ticket values soar on black market

For events with Chinese stars such as Lu Xiang, world champion at the 110m hurdles, ticket prices are being on sold for up to 25 times the face ticket price.

“Every since he made a name for himself, people have been trying to cash in,” the newspaper said in a report carried on the popular Internet news portal Sohu.com.

See here for more information on buying tickets for the Beijing Olympics.

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9th September 2007

Beijing Olympic radio through a cap

People attending the Olympic Games in Beijing will be able to get all of the latest event and weather information through a radio equipped cap.

People attending the Olympic Games would wear a cap to take shelter from summer sunlight anyway, if the cap happens to be a radio for the Olympic events, how can they refuse?” Xinhua quoted Xu Jun, director of the Olympic Radio of the China Radio International (CRI), as saying.

The broadcast will be available in Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and German.

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7th September 2007

China’s police get in line for Olympics

Wanting to show a clean view of China to the world, the Chinese government is requesting it’s police force to shape up for the Olympic games. They could land themselves in trouble for spitting, smoking or eating in public.

“We will spare no effort to do a great job for the Games and beyond,” Beijing traffic officer Zeng Qinghui was quoted as saying by the official China Daily newspaper.

The government is also encouraging its citizens to refrain from spitting, littering and driving wrecklessly.

Read more: China Police to Shape Up for Olympics

6th September 2007

Wanted: smiling children’s faces

Beijing Olympics organizers are launching a campaign to collect photographs of smiling children’s faces from around the world.

Exactly how the photographs will be used is still confedential.

Requirements:

- picture must be of a smiling child
- must be at least five million pixels, in color
- must never have been used before for commercial purposes
- saved in JPG format with the filename the name of the child

Photos need to be sent to the following address, by express mail service, with the term “SMILING FACE” on the envelope:

Operating Center for Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

55 Lin Cui Xi Li, Chao Yang District,

Beijing, 100085, China

Further details

600 applications from Taiwan to volunteer for Olympics

China’s Olympic organizing committee received over 600 applications for volunteer positions at the Beijing Olympics.

In total they have received 560,000 applications - a record for any Olympic Games.

See here for more information on becoming a volunteer at the Beijing Olymic Games.

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31st August 2007

China rewrites English menus

The Chinese government has released a list of 2,753 food and beverage items to standardize English menu translations and to curb strange menu items, that would only cause confusion to foreigners visiting China for the Olympics.

Some of more stranger items include “virgin chicken” (a young chicken dish) and “burnt lion’s head” (Chinese-style pork meatballs). Chinese have long eaten almost specie of animal and plant. No matter how hard the government tries to improves its image to overseas visitors you just can’t make delicacies like dog, chicken feet or snake sound anymore appealing.

Read more: No more ‘virgin chicken’ or ‘burnt lion’s head’: Beijing improves menu names for Olympics

Beijing aims to improve airport service

In preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, airport authorities are doing their best to improve services in the airport. They aim to do this by:

- cutting prices on 1,700 items

- giving updates on delayed flights every 30 minutes

- providing free accommodation for passengers delayed more than four hours

“There is a very obvious gap between it and Sydney or Athens airports,” an International airport survey reported.

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New Olympic slogan for China Airlines

China Airlines announced a new slogan fro the Beijing Olympic Games: “Carrying the Olympics, Flying your dream”. The slogan was selected from thousands of entries submitted by China Airline employees.

“Air China will act as the representative of Chinese companies and will strive to offer the best services to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games,” said Mrs. Zhang Chunzhi, Secretary-General of Air China’s Olympic Work Committee.

Source

29th August 2007

Want to be a torch bearer in Vietnam?

The Levono sponsored torch relay is calling for volunteers to run with the torch in Vietnam. Applications can be made through the Lenovo website here.

Applications must be submitted by September 20th 2007 for the relay to be run on April 30, 2008. You will also be placed in a competition to win a Lenovo Y410 notebook.

Yi Ting looking to qualify for the Beijing Games

Yi Ting is looking to become the first female Malaysian swimmer to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing next year.

She is competing in the 50th Malaysian Open championships, which begin today at the Paroi Aquatic Centre in Seremban.

“I have been training here for the last week since I came back and just trying to get back into form again. I am also looking forward to competing in my hometown after a long time,” said Yi Ting.

Her best hopes are in the 200m breaststroke and 200m individual medley.

Read more: Yi Ting out to meet the A qualifying mark for Beijing Games


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