Archive for March, 2008
Olympic Flame Arrives in Beijing
The Beijing Olympic flame which taken by a chartered Air China plane arrives in Beijing on Monday morning
Beijing Olympics’ top organizer Liu Qi walked off the plane, carrying a lantern which holds the sacred flame.
A welcome ceremony for the Olympic flame will be held late this morning at Tian’anmen Square.
The torch relay officially starts on [...]
Blog update to wordpress 2.5
[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] Today i saw the wordpress 2.5 is available finally. I have heard about it several days ago. I don’t know what it will be for the new wordpress version.
I updated my blog as soon as i know it is available. And the chang of the new version is realy very clear. [...]
Three minute wait for trains during Olympics
During the Games, subway trains will depart at 3 minute intervals.
According to the Beijing Evening News, subway line 10 and the Olympic Lateral will start test runs on Thursday. Planners have revealed that during Games-time, wait time for trains will be minimized to a mere three minutes.
Leaders are paying close attention to safety and other [...]
Flyers will remove shoes for tighter air security
According to the news from the aviation authorities that passengers in China to remove their shoes for safety checks as part of a tighter security system ahead of the Olympics.
So what do you think regarding this check process for tighter air secutity. Is it good for safe of everyone? Is it unnecessary for this kind of [...]
The world’s 50 most powerful blogs
The word’s most powerful blogs were selected by The Observe’s. The first one is The Huffington Post, and the twelfth th is a Chinese blog from Xu Jinglei. Below is the list for the top 20:
1.The Huffington Post
web：www.huffingtonpost.com
2. Boing Boing
web：www.boingboing.net
3. Techcrunch
web：www.techcrunch.com
4. Kottke
web：www.kottke.org
5. Dooce
web：dooce.com
6. Perezhilton
web：www.perezhilton.com
7. Talking points memo
web：www.talkingpointsmemo.com
8. Icanhascheezburger
web：www.icanhascheezburger.com
9. Beppe Grillo
web：www.beppegrillo.it
10. Gawker
web：www.gawker.com
11. [...]
Vegetarian food restaurants in Beijing
Lily Vegetarian It is a vegan restaurant, which arranges classic book review and various lectures at weekend in all of its three branches.
Average price per person: 30-300 yuan (US$3.8-38)
Tel: 6202-5284/6287-8726/6405-2082
Website: www.ertong.org
Tian Chu Miao Xiang It has always been committed to promoting vegetarian culture and Confucious ideology.
Average price per person: 30-50 yuan (US$3.8-6.3)
Address: First Floor, Chuangye [...]
Beijing Airport’s new Terminal 3 the largest building in the world
Beijing Capital Airport’s spanking new Terminal Three opens this Friday. The Norman Foster-designed building is being touted as the largest building in the world. And it is colossal. To give you an idea of just how big it is, the terminal is the size of 170 soccer fields put together, and that is 17 percent [...]
Beijing’s subways to offer 24-hour service during Olympic ceremonies
Beijing subways will try to run round-the-clock on the opening and closing days of the Olympic Games.
The move was aimed at relieving heavy traffic on the two days, Aug. 8 and Aug. 24, while the operating hours would be extended on other days of the Games, Tuesday’s Beijing Daily quoted an official with the Beijing [...]
China’s first adult shop
Located on East Fuchengmen Road in Beijing’s Xicheng District, the Adam & Eve Health Center sells adult health products including contraceptives, pregnancy test reagents, aphrodisiacs, sexual intercourse supplements, masturbation products, glamorous underwear and etc. The small shop of approximately 20 square meters enjoyed great popularity for a time during the 1990s and was described by [...]
