kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
If Scott Lin has his way, his new restaurant will be to Chinese cuisine what the Bird’s Nest is to Tiananmen Square.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Hu Shigen was arrested in 1992 for planning to commemorate victims of the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Eddie Perez Romero was ordered out of China after he was taken into custody for protesting near Tiananmen Square. Eddie Perez Romero, the La Puente pastor who was taken into custody near Tiananmen Square during a human rights protest, has been ordered out of the country by Chinese authorities and put aboard a San Francisco-bound airplane, his daughter said this morning.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
It is time to say goodbye to China, the ancient land where time stands still. Time started standing still my first day here, when a man in Tiananmen Square sold me a wristwatch with Mao Zedong on the face. Mao's arm waves with each tick of the watch, or it...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
A single gunshot echoed in Tiananmen Square. As the race starter pointed his pistol toward the blue sky and fired, Olympic runners began their 26.2-mile trek.
Tibet Will Be Free (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Adam Zenko, who was detained near Tiananmen Square on August 10th following an SFT action that included the unfurling of a Tibetan flag by a Tibetan woman, writes to the editors of the New York Times in response to one of Nick Kristof’s ridiculous columns. To the Editor: Re “Malcontents Need Not Apply,” by Nicholas D. Kristof [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
It is time to say goodbye to China, the ancient land where time stands still. Time started standing still my first day here, when a man in Tiananmen Square sold me a wristwatch with Mao Zedong on the face. Mao's arm waves with each tick of the watch, or it...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A bold assault on that great taboo subject: the Tiananmen Square massacre
Rocketboom (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab, Students for a Free Tibet, GRL L.A.S.E.R. Stencil, LED Throwies, LED Throwies II, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Enter The Ghetto Matrix, A Timeline of Noel Hildago’s Arrest and Deportation from China, Journalist Deported after Filming Protest in Tiananmen Square , Alive in Baghdad, Brian Conley, Rocketboom Interview with Alive in Baghdad’s [...]
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
But sometimes the official line of the US government and its media is erroneous. Here is Justin Raimondo's classic article on Tiananmen Square. The demonstrators were not freedom fighters, but hardline Communists protesting Deng Xiaoping's capitalist reforms. The demonstrators feared,...
Marketing Begins At Home (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Fellow NYer Noel Hidalgo was deported from China for filming a held by Students for a Free Tibet, in Tiananmen Square. Coverage here and in Nate Westheimer’s blog. Whatever you think of the propriety of holding protests in foreign countries during the Olympics, it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that if we’re ever going to have [...]
NW World News Prayer Network (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Persecution Still "Behind the Scenes" in Communist China SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Aug. 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- On August 8, 2008, three American Christians were arrested in China. After the group's press conference in Tiananmen Square, during which they condemned the country's widespread oppression and human rights violations, they were imprisoned and subsequently deported back to the United States....
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Al-Jazeera : Chinese retirees live it up with dancing Al-Jazeera : Chinese rocker Cui Jian, whose song Nothing to My Name became the unofficial anthem of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, says he supports the Olympics but that rock-and-roll stars are born to be trouble-makers. Al-Jazeera : Five-time gold medallist US swimmer Aaron Peirsol talks about about the physiological impact of competing...
George Junior (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The BBC's Steve Parry is mobbed by fans in Tiananmen Square as he's mistaken for Michael Phelps.
NewsLite (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
A BBC TV pundit was mobbed by Chinese Olympic fans as he broadcast live from Tiananmen Square ... because they thought he was US super-swimmer Michael Phelps. Adding salt to the wound, mistaken presenter Steve Parry he is a former olympic swimmer himself who gained a bronze medal for the 200m butterfly in 2004. He lost ... you guessed it, to a certain Michael Phelps. "I am not Michael Phelps," he...
