A Tale of Two Houses

... The international feel of Beijing has expanded exponentially with the influx of ... with the influx of Olympic visitors. Foreign tourists have clogged all known tourist traps, including ... RMB ($4.50) you could tour a remodeled Chinese courtyard home, that in its non-Olympic incarnation ...
Publication date: 2008-08-16

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A BEIJING OLYMPICS DIARY

BIG FUN | August 15th 2008 papparazzi/flickr Spontaneous fun is elusive in Beijing these days, writes The Economist's correspondent in China. Tight visa requirements and high security seem to have kept most revellers at bay ... From ECONOMIST.COM Juan Antonio Samaranch, a former president of the International Olympic Committee, once said that "without a lively, visible cultural programme that reflects the spirit of the host country, the Olympic games would be incomplete". Finding such a pr
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The Olympics: Medal-winning commercials

Here on Day 6 of the Olympics, I am exhausted, saddened by how badly the American women have been swimming, and disappointed by the blatant cheating on the part of the Chinese. But my fervor for the Games has now extended to the commercials of the games. My current favorite is this Coca-Cola spot not featuring Yao Ming or LeBron James; it
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The ICE Man Cometh: ICE Sends Notice to Wrong Home, Then Arrests Him for Failiure to Respond, and Holds Him Until He Dies From Untreated Cancer

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has come under increasing attack for the brutish approach that it has taken to deportation cases, often refusing medical care and coercing people to waive their rights. In the case of Chinese computer engineer Hiu Lui Ng, the abuses may have killed him. Ng came to New York at 17 and later became a computer engineer with a job in the Empire State Building with a U.S. citizen as a wife, two U.S. citizens as children, and a house in Queens. He spent ha
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