asap: Beijing Olympics update

asap ’s reporter Nick Tatro speaks to Scott McDonald, news editor in Beijing, to talk about the status of the Beijing Olympics:
China’s Olympics: a status check
July 9, 2007
Here are some of the interesting topics they discuss:

McDonald talks about how the construction of buildings and new transportation routes is pushing people out of their homes and [...]

Hey, dissenters, China’s got its eyes on you

Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
The good news is that the Chinese government finally answered the demands of thousands of protestors in the coastal city Xiamen, located in Fujian province, by halting the construction of a 700 million pound chemicals plant. According to a translation on ESWN, the Haicang PX [...]