· July, 2008

Stories about Sport from July, 2008

China: How you feeling about the Olympics?

  21 July 2008

Joel at Fool's Mountain recently took to the street where he lives in Beijing neighbor city Tianjin to ask locals what they think about next month's Olympics. He took video of it all, and has even added translated subtitles. Check it out.

East Timor in SEA games logo

  20 July 2008

Asia's Perfect 10 raised a valid issue. The Southeast Asian (SEA) games logo has 10 rings representing the countries of the region. Another ring should be added to include Timor Leste.

China: Olympic Intellectual Property Right

  18 July 2008

Two cold gets the information that in order to protect intellectual property right, bloggers can't do live video cast nor post Olympic photos on their blogs. Moreover, there are other measure to protect Olympic sponsors, some ads with Olympic sport players as spoke person would be blocked during Olympics.

China: Olympic Condom

  17 July 2008

Consumer products in China try very hard to capture the Olympic concept in their product. This Olympic condom ads has become rather popular in the internet.

China: Olympic Ads

  16 July 2008

Adrienne Wong from Shanghaiist noticed that the Amnesty International anti-Olympic Ads and Adidas Olympic Ads were designed by the same company (TBWA).

Hong Kong: Buying Money

  16 July 2008

The Bank of China in Hong Kong has issued a set of commemorative banknotes for Beijing Olympics. Thousands started to line up three days ahead for buying the paper money and resulted in great chaos. Florence from Over the Rainbow has to report about the news and she pointed out...

Nigeria: Football coaching scams

  16 July 2008

Foreign Policy's Passport Blog comments on the recent BBC story about Nigerian fake talent spotter scam, in which “conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars”.

Trinidad & Tobago: Polluted Olympics

  14 July 2008

Looking ahead to the Olympics next month, Trinidad's Life from a caffeine hyped point of view says pollution is a sobering reality of these Games. Seeing photos of pollution, she says “makes you almost wish that Beijing was still The Forbidden City, and one cannot help but be saddened by...

China: Olympics and Politics

  14 July 2008

Kang Guo-ping (康國平) felt that the Beijing Olympics is getting more and more politicized because of the fear of terrorists attack.

China: On Olympic Design

  14 July 2008

Chong translated excerpt of Ai Wei Wei's (艾未未) interview on Beijing Olympic design. The full article in China can be found here.

China: The Upside Down Commemorative Notes for Olympics

  13 July 2008

The People's Bank of China has issued a commemorative note with a face value of 10 Yuan to mark next month's Beijing Olympic Games. However, before most of the collectors had a chance to get it, a blogger named Naughty Lion pointed out a "mistake" in the backdrop of the special notes.

China: Olympic Bible Cover

  10 July 2008

Rob from Black and White Cat blogs about the publishing of New Testament's “Special Edition for the Beijing 2008 Olympic game”.

Armenia: Political Football

Unzipped comments on an opinion piece by Armenia's new president published by the Wall Street Journal in which Serge Sargsyan hopes that September's Armenia-Turkey football World Cup qualifying match in Yerevan can be the catalyst for amicable relations between the two countries. Currently the border between Armenia and Turkey is...

China: Summer Olympics Disaster Guide

  8 July 2008

Probably going to see a lot more posts like this in the coming few weeks, so let this be GVO's chance to (hopefully) get it out of the way now: What could go wrong in Beijing? Everything.. Via Shanghaiist.