Women have been BANNED from wearing mini-skirts at the Beijing Olympics.

Men also risk being thrown out of stadiums if they strip off their shirts under the strict dress code. And any fan daring to wave a large banner will get the same treatment.

The 40,000 Britons travelling to the Olympics starting in under two weeks’ time should also leave their radios at home as outdoor live music is banned.

Even eating outdoors in bars and restaurants near any Olympic venues is a big No, No.

The list of dos and don’ts is listed in a nine-page code of regulations called the House Spectator Rules drawn up by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee.

It is threatening to turn the Olympics into the “Killjoy Games”.

Police have been given a bizarre fleet of two-wheeled Segways which travel at 12.5mph to enforce the code, And the roller cops have been told to keep their eyes peeled for women wearing skimpy clothes and men showing too much flesh, even though temperatures are expected to soar above 30C.

Any fans who have too much to drink and decide to sleep it off in a Beijing park can expect to wake up in a police cell.

Banners stretching over two metres long will also be confiscated. Even locals will be banned from wearing Go China T-shirts or waving banners reading I Love China in case they give the impression of a pro-China bias.

Huang Keying, of the Beijing Organising Committee, said: “We have specially trained staff who will communicate with spectators. But refusal to comply with these rules will be subject to punishments or criminal prosecution.”



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When the dust settles from the Beijing Olympic Games, the world will know more about this ancient capital city of China. Although the city modernized itself to welcome athletes, media and tourists, the city remains rich in historical landmarks. There’s more to Beijing than the Olympics so here are the city’s top tourist attractions to explore when the Games are over.

Beijing was the seat of power for various Chinese dynasties throughout history. During the Ming dynasty, the Yongle Emperor built the Forbidden City, a compound surrounded by a moat and walls to enclose some 980 buildings and the palace. It was the home for many emperors and some of their treasures survive to this day and can be seen in the Palace Museum. Due to its significance in Chinese architecture and culture, it was declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Beijing also boasts another World Heritage Site in the Summer Palace. The Summer Palace is an estate 294 hectares in size renowned for its landscape of gardens, lakes, pavilions and bridges. It was the refuge of peace for many Chinese royals throughout the years.

Another notable Beijing landmark that was the location of a modern day tragedy is Tiananmen Square. Situated just south of the Forbidden City, this immense square measuring 40.5 hectares, many notable events in Chinese history took place. Chief amongst them was the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 where students and intellectuals made protests against the Chinese government. As a result, and depending on the propaganda source, 200 to 3000 protesters died between April 15 and June 4, 1989. To this day, the square remains a gathering place with other notable landmarks such as the Tiananmen Gate to the north, the national legislature known as the Great Hall of the People to the west, the National Museum of China to the east, the Monument to the People’s Heroes to the south, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong in the middle.

But perhaps the most famous landmark of them all is the Great Wall of China. Yes, this too is a World Heritage Site. The Great Wall measures 6,700 km in length and construction first started in 220 BC. Throughout the centuries, it has been built and rebuilt and sections of the Wall are on the outskirts of the Beijing.

The Chinese capital of Beijing truly holds a wealth of history with many more tourist attractions of temples, tombs and gardens. As the Beijing Olympic Games rolls around it will certainly add more luster to its history as well as inheriting world class modern buildings built for the Olympics. What a great blend of the old and the new. This is what makes Beijing such a great place to visit.



By: Mariam Ma

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2008 is a year of China, the most important sports meeting ——the Olympic Games is held in China. Under the slogan of One World, One Dream, all the nations come together to realize their dreams. In the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony, the director Zhang Yimou used his fantastic imagination and his knowledge to give all the people in the world an unforgettable night. And after this, Chinese things or all the things with Chinese characteristics become more and more popular. However, among all things, which attracts people most?

 

As Italy has its opera, Russia has its ballet, what does China have? —— Chinese Opera.

 

The history of Chinese opera is dating back from 200 years ago, it is a synthesis of stylized action, singing, dialogue and mime, acrobatic fighting and dancing to represent a story or depict different characters and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, fear and sadness. In Peking opera there are four main types of roles: sheng (male) dan (young female), jing( painted face,male), and chou (clown, male or female). The characters may be loyal or treacherous, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, their images being vividly manifested. The music of Chinese opera is that of the "plate and cavity style". Its melody with harmonious rhythms is graceful and pleasing to the ears. Besides its singing, action, and dance, there is one essential thing —–types of ****** make-up. The types of ****** make-ups in Chinese opera are rich and various, depicting different characters and remarkable images, therefore they are highly appreciated. All kinds of different types of ****** make-up give us different impressions of the opera, so in some aspects, types of ****** make-up in operas is on behalf of Chinese opera.

 

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By: Joyce Qi

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Soon the coverage of the Beijing Olympics will overwhelm the media. There will be never ending stories about China’s spectacular growth and forecasts of what that means in the future. But there is another story, a darker story. There are things about China that are not well known and every economic forecast at some point in time is wrong.

1. The Chinese stock market has lost over 50% in value in less than 8 months.

2. In Shenzhen, a city that borders Hong Kong, the average price of property dropped 30% this year in 3 months. Sales of apartments in Shanghai are off 50% this year. Housing prices are also vulnerable in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Haikou on the coast, and Wuhan, Nanning, Xi’an, Lanzhou and Urumqi in the interior. Can you say subprime in Chinese?

3. The number of shoe factories in the province of Guangdong outside of Hong Kong, the so called work shop of the world, has dropped 40% since 2002. Over 10,000 factories have closed since the introduction of a new labor law at the beginning of the year.

4. Of the top 20 most polluted cities in the world, 16 are located in China.

5. According to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security there were over 74,000 protests in 2004 involving more than 3.7m people; up from 10,000 in 1994 and 58,000 in 2003. The number is increase geometrically. Although the protests in Tibet were widely covered, a violent protest in June brought 30,000 residents on to the streets of Wengan, in Guizhou province.

6. China is experiencing the worst power shortage in at least four years. The miss match between soaring coal prices and government-set electricity rates have resulted in the closure of over 58 power stations. Almost half of China’s provinces have started to ration electricity.

7. In 2006 a report by Earnst & Young estimated that the Chinese financial system had bad debts of close to a trillion dollars. No doubt the number is much higher as a result of the real estate and stock market crash.

I am William Gamble, JD, LLM, Ex MBA, KSC, a consultant specializing in emerging markets. I have been quoted or interviewed by ABC, CNN Asia, Bloomberg, Fox, CNBC, NPR and other television and radio stations around the world. I have published 24 letters in Financial Times and articles in Foreign Affairs, and Harvard International Review. I have been quoted USA TODAY, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, Sankei Shimbun. I have written two books Investing in China and Freedom: America’s Competitive Advantage in the Global Market. In the past year I have spoken to CFA societies in 10 countries and 9 US cities as well as other conferences all over the world.

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Undoubtedly soccer is the world’s biggest game. Sure the World Cup, F.A Cup or UEFA cup may draw more interest but for all the teams competing in this year’s Beijing Olympics there will be some very determined players who want to win that gold medal.

The soccer games of the Beijing Olympic Games will be held from August 6-23, 2008 in five cities including the host city of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin and Qinhuangdao. The finals for men and women will be held in Beijing where three venues are located: the Workers’ Stadium, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium and the National Stadium. The venues outside Beijing are: Shanghai Stadium, Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Sport Center Stadium, and Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium. These state of the art stadiums will provide spectators with a great facility to enjoy the games.

Football was first introduced in 1900 and 1904 as an exhibition sport and became the first team sport included in the Olympic Games. Since 1908, the sport has been held at every Olympic Games with the exception of 1932 in Los Angeles. The European teams dominated the Olympics until 1992, when Spain became the last European team to win a gold medal.

Women’s football was introduced in 1996 in Atlanta where the USA won the gold medal in and then again in Athens in 2004.

The competition allows for three players over the age of 23 to compete. Although a prestigious event, many of the world best players will not play due to contractual obligations with their own professional teams. They also do not want to risk getting an injury and often have pressure placed on them by their team managers who do not want them to play in the games.

The sixteen qualified nations for the men’s event are: Australia, Japan, Korea Republic, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Honduras, United States of America, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, and the host country of China.

The four men’s groups are as follows: Group A includes Cote d’Ivoire, Argentina, Australia and Serbia. Group B includes the Netherlands, Nigeria, Japan and Argentina. Group C includes China, New Zealand, Brazil and Belgium. Group D includes Korea Republic, Cameroon, and Honduras.

The tournament will be organized into group stages until they reach the quarter-final round will result in losing teams being knocked out of the competition. All four teams that make the semi finals will determine who wins the medals with the fourth team missing out.

Group stage matches will begin on August 7th with the quarter finals on August 16th, the semi finals on August 19th, the loser’s final on August 22nd and the winner’s final to be held on August 23rd.

The women’s tournament consists of 12 teams, four more than they had in Athens. Group E consists of China, Sweden, Argentina and Canada. Group F includes Korea DPR, Nigeria, Germany, and Brazil. Group G includes Norway, United States of America, Japan and New Zealand.

Most of the major soccer games will be broadcasted by the television networks. However, as usual each country will be likely to choose only those games where they have their own national team competing.



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2008 Beijing Olympic Games medals tells how East meets West

 

Their front side is traditional. There’s Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, where the first Modern Olympic Games was held in 1896 thanks to the tireless efforts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

It’s the reverse side that makes it a perfect blend of the West and East, rather Chinese. A ring of elegance, nobility and virtue adds that essential touch of Chinese culture to the medals. And as any Chinese would tell you, the ring couldn’t be made of anything but jade for only jade can represent all the three qualities.

 

Beijing Olympic logo design



The emblem, entitled “Chinese Seal — Dancing Beijing”, features a single Chinese character on a traditional red Chinese seal with the words “Beijing 2008″ written in an eastern-style brush stroke.

 

The stick-figure that comprises the logo looks like a lively runner or dancer and also mimics the Chinese character “wen” meaning humanity (renwen) or culture (wenhua). Some experts said it also resembles the character “jing” meaning the Chinese capital, or Beijing.

 

The emblem also represents the ancient Chinese art of seal-cutting which dates back 3,700 years to the Yin Dynasty. Seals were used as a personal “signature” as well as for official documents.

 

The art logo has been used in the future Christmas gifts design now. I also find some cushion cover with this logo distributed by the official as the gift too. I like the Logo. There is also the cotton fabric decorated with this logo for sale too.

 

The Olympic Logo full of culture innovation

 

According to their official site, it means:

The official emblem of Beijing 2008 entitled “Chinese Seal-Dancing Beijing” cleverly combines the Chinese seal and the art of calligraphy with sporting features, transforming the elements into a human figure running forward and embracing triumph. The figure resembles the Chinese character “Jing”, which stands for the name of the host city and represents a particularly significant Chinese style. The artwork embodies four messages:

* – Chinese culture,

* – the color of red China

* – Beijing welcomes friends from all over the world

* – to challenge the extreme and achieve the perfect and promote the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).



By: Janey Yang

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