The Chinese didn’t get the first gold medal of the 2008 Olympic Games as hoped… the honour belongs to Kateřina Emmons of Czech Republic in the women’s 10m air rifle event.
The Chinese’s disappointment didn’t stand long as weightlifter Chen Xiexia captured the first gold for the country in the women’s 48kg class weightlifting event moments later.
LEGO Sport City
An exhibition is currently running at Grand Century Place in Hong Kong with the major Beijing Olympics venues being recreated in LEGO.
16 Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region this morning (Aug 4).
Two attackers drove a tip lorry to hit a team of policemen who were jogging through the street in a morning exercise at about 8:00am before throwing home-made explosive to the barracks and hacking other policemen with knifes.
14 policemen were killed on the spot and two others died on the way to hospital; 16 others are injured. [Xinhuanet]
The two attackers had been arrested; and the authorities are suspecting this as a terrorist attack with the East Turkistan Islamic Movement in mind.
The Chinese press seems to be playing down the issue as the Beijing Olympics is looming near… but the incident is certainly going to raise further fear on the safety and security during the Olympic Games.
A young man was stabbed and then beheaded in what appears to be an unprovoked attack on a Greyhound bus in the Canadian province of Manitoba, en route to Winnipeg. A 40-year-old man was arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours and remains in police custody.
A group of former South Korean elite soldiers slaughtered live pheasants, Japan’s national bird, outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul last Thursday (July 17) in protest against Japan’s sovereignty claim on Liancourt Rocks. Video below…
The Liancourt Rocks are a group of small islets in waters between Japan and Korea; the islets are also known as Dokdo in Korean or Takeshima in Japanese. Both nations are claiming sovereignty over the islands… and the dispute heated up recently following Japan’s fresh claim of ownership in their textbook guidelines.
The South Koreans protested heavily as expected, and I don’t blame them for doing so. However, cruelly slaughtering live birds in public? That’s too much.
Most foreigners don’t have enough knowledge on who actually owns the island. We can only learn a bit of the story from news and websites; and this kind of bird-killing gimmick certainly won’t go well in global opinions… it achieved nothing besides showing the world a bad image of South Koreans.
The mass murder in Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Town has left the nation in shock… a 25-year-old man turned rampage on Sunday noon, killed seven and injured 10 before he was arrested by the cops.
A mourner paying his respect to the victims [More story on Mainichi]
A Cambodian father and mechanic learned the hard way not to inflate children when he inserted an air hose designed to fill car tires into his 5-year-old son’s anus and blew him up, local media Rasmei Kampuchea Daily reported on Thursday.
The father was ‘playing’ with his son when the incident took place. The paper said the child’s stomach became distended and his concerned mother rushed him to hospital, where he remains in a stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.
“The father very much regrets playing like this now,” the paper quoted a family member as saying. [IOL]
