From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Nearly every Beijinger is going international with the forthcoming Olympics - even former stone-faced police officers are learning to greet foreigners with a friendly "hello" and a big smile. Amid the citywide pre-Olympic English-language-learning craze,...

From Wall Street Journal: The 2008 Beijing Olympics have become a public-relations vehicle for the Chinese government, corporate sponsors -- and now even a betrayed wife. Since last Friday, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Internet users have watched an...

From The Australian: Back in 2001, China's Olympic bid committee argued that awarding the 2008 Games to Beijing would help the development of human rights. The message was intended for foreign, not Chinese, ears but it has spread through...