Chinese human rights advocate Liu Xiaobo, Spiegel Online, April 7: That [Olympic boycotts] wouldn’t be a good way to punish China. If the Games fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I personally think: We want the Games and we want human rights to…
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Public eyes are watching you
Who do you trust? Chinese Olympic officials defended on Tuesday the collection of information on journalists, saying such databases would be used to help the media at Beijing 2008, not to create blacklists or hinder reporting. The comments came a day after state media said authorities were building a database of information on about 30,000…
No pork for you
Thanks for telling us: The organisers of the Beijing Olympics have denied that secret pig-breeding centres have been set up to ensure pork supplied to international athletes will be safe to eat. They were responding to reports that the official pork supplier for the Games had set up a dozen special breeding farms where bans…