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The World Cup kicked off this week in South Africa, without China who failed to qualify. Despite this football is a hugely popular spectator sport in the country. In Beijing, many of the bars and restaurants have been packed with fans watching the games late into the night.
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Next Saturday, 27th March at 8.30pm is the Global Earth Hour, organised by The World Wildlife Fund. An event where participating households and businesses, will turn off their lights and non-essential appliances for one hour. Last year, I wrote it was disappointingly not very dim in Beijing. However, this year a new poster [...]
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I received my invitation for the Icograda World Design Congress 2009, happening in Beijing next week. The bi-annual event brings together many organisations, including designers, educators and other creative professionals to discuss the future of communication design.
It’s the first time the event has been held in China and the theme for this year is Xin [...]
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The 60th anniversary of the Founding of The People’s Republic of China celebration began with a huge military parade. Despite living in Beijing, the event was closed off to the general public. The government authorities had earlier advised people, not to go out and to stay at home.
So, like billions of other people [...]
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I have been traveling for over week, so on my return to Beijing the first thing you notice is the security. With only days to go before the 60th anniversary celebration on October 1st, the streets around the city are full of armed police.
The Beijing authorities have deployed an army of police and [...]
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Last weekend I visited a new exhibition celebrating 60 years of Chinese art from the period 1949-2009. It had opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China.
Now 60 years might not seem a [...]
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For the last few weekends, the centre of Beijing has been cordoned to all vehicles and members of the public. Chang An Road, the central avenue, which runs east to west across Beijing and it’s surrounding areas have been closed for secret dress rehearsals of a huge military parade.
In the centre of Chang An Road [...]
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Last week Crest launched its revolutionary Pro-Health range of oral products in China with a National Press Conference in Beijing. My colleague, Caroline (picture above) who had worked on the project, flew in from Hong Kong and invited me the launch. It was to be a multimedia and live action event held at [...]
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Yesterday in Berlin at the World Championships, Usain Bolt smashed his world record for the 100m to 9.58 seconds. It was exactly a year ago to the day, that the Jamaican set the previous world record of 9.69 seconds at the Olympics games in Beijing.
The memory of him winning three gold medals (100m, [...]
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