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A while back I posted a video from Chinese TV of Kevin Rudd speaking mandarin.

Here’s another Kevin Rudd clip for you guys. Looks like someone whipped up a Kevin Rudd Propaganda video — or at least, what might pass for one if you ignored the audio track:

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Greeks light Beijing’s Olympic Flame:

Three men from a free-press group ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday’s flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions in the wake of China’s crackdown in Tibet.

Three members of the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders were detained after their protest, which occurred as Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee and Beijing Communist Party Secretary, was giving a speech. Police confirmed they had detained three French nationals.

China state TV cut away from the protest and showed a prerecorded scene, preventing Chinese viewers from seeing the incident. Chinese television commentators did not mention the demonstration.

Here’s the clip from CCTV:

And here’s what really happened:

Even though he’s been in the Chinese media a little, I can’t believe that Hong Laowai is not getting more attention than he is. His videos are awesome, and he’s a very charismatic, very talented guy. And his Chinese is alright too.

Some other Laowai are trying to jump aboard the wagon though, as he seems to have attracted quite a few immitators. But the funny part of this video is where he pokes fun at stereotypes (at around the 4 min mark). Both stereotypes of Waiguoren and of Asians as well.

That sh!t is so funny. A Chinese kid once asked me if I eat MacDonalds every day. So he’s not far off the mark…

For more Hong Laowai, check out his profile page on youku or on youtube.

Most of the info that I’ve been getting about the situation in [*tib*] has been on Twitter.

Chris has been doing a good job of tracking new stories, and he’s been saving them using google reader.

I usually use delicious to track this kinda stuff, and for the [*tib*] [*protess*] I’ve spliced together four delicious feeds ([*tib*], [*Lha*], & Chinese translations — along with Chris’s feed mentioned above — to make a super news feed for anyone who wants to track the latest:

[*tib*] News RSS Feed

It was bound to happen that someone would do another take on the Olympic logo again.

Note to Chinese govt: I strongly condemn this cartoon as irresponsible nonsense.

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Here are a few updates on the escalating situation in [*Lha*] [*tib*]:

New York Times article on the [*protess*] in [*Lha*]
LA Times article

This stuff is starting to get crazy. And I’m sure they’re just beginning.
Surely this is all Bjork’s fault…

And a video news report from CNN:

Update: Youtube appears to be blocked now in China. If you can’t see the video, you now know why.

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Kaiser Kuo over at Digital Watch reports that Tudou.com has been taken offline so they can change servers. Now whether or not this has anything to do with the rumored shutdown order, I’m not going to speculate.

I am however going to cross my fingers, and hope that they are back up come midnight tonight, as their onsite message indicates.

I have videos on there, and I hope they’re safe!

Cute Out-of-Order Notice:
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