New Olympic stadium

Adjusting to Beijing

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September 13th 2007
Now settled into the Australian Embassy quarters in Beijing, and it's looking pretty good. Arriving yesterday you could part the air with a chopstick, so I pity any poor athletes trying to do their best times, either now or next year. Even flying in to the airport, the front camera could only produce a brown blur. It was a bit of a contrast with wonderful Copenhagen where we spent about six hours ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more