2008 Summer Olympics

By Tania Branigan Tanks and lorries roll through Beijing to mark 60th anniversary of communism in China There was an Olympic formation with a model of the Bird's Nest stadium, and the Chinese astronaut who performed the country's first spacewalk last year waved from his float.

By Tania Branigan Tanks and lorries roll through Beijing to mark 60th anniversary of communism in China There was an Olympic formation with a model of the Bird's Nest stadium, and the Chinese astronaut who performed the country's first spacewalk last year waved from his float.

By Pye Ian I.E. When the French energy firm Total pulled out of Iran last year due to US pressure, the CEO of Russia's Gazprom met immediately with a gleeful and obliging Ahmadinejad, offering to take over those projects in the South Pars gas fields. Also, in addition to personally being present for sta...

We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave! China Economics Blog used the term, Hotel California effect (borrowing from a scholarly article), to describe the problems foreigners so often have in getting their money out of China. I love that ter...

By noreply@blogger.com (Paul Karl Lukacs) 2. Time Out Beijing is written in a smart, snappy style that helps make the city seem hip and cosmopolitan. For all the hype, much of Beijing is drab. The city and national governments would presumably want to spice up the image of the capital, and Beijing Time Out was, from that perspective, a b...