Posts Tagged ‘olympics’
Up in flames.
09Feb09
On the last day of Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing, a major new building burned from the ground up. Designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, the building housed a hotel, cultural center, and CCTV’s new headquarters. The images of the flames are kind of incredible.
Apparently this was built last year for the Olympics as [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, olympics, tv
So they knew about the milk all along. From the NY Times:
One of China’s biggest dairy producers received consumer complaints about its baby milk formula as early as December 2007 — much earlier than previously thought and nine months before the producer ordered a nationwide recall because of concerns that the formula had been adulterated [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, controversy, media, olympics, politics