Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Another great post on China Law Blog - this time about way the Chinese are conducting sailing events in Qingdao. Steve's perspective from a local expat highlights some of the issues while still keeping a positive outlook for the future of China. Enjoy
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Only at China Law Blog. Harris & Moure's Steve Dickinson is in Qingdao, an ancient but ultra-modern city in the Shandong province with over 7 million people living in the metro area: ...Qingdao has worked hard to ensure that the...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, China VINYL CUTTER for Sign Making-Excellent Vinyl cutter from Redsail China Redsail, have developed vinyl cutter for the sign industry and with our own technology, we have the copyright of the firmware, we have 4 patents in China. By applying the latest software algorithm and the mechanism for precision machine manufacturing, which was obtained from...
China Law Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Qingdao Olympics Report Week Two August 18, 2008 By: Steve Dickinson From: Qingdao, China We are heading into week two of the Olympic Sailing Events here in Qingdao. It is time for a short report. In order to host the Olympic sailing events, Qingdao built a modern sailing center right in the heart of the central business district. This modern facility will be converted into...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, Shandong, China Typhoon at Sea Day one of Olympic medal races at Qingdao Sailing Center, produced no wind. Start delays were prominent on our A course, where our LIVE multi-camera coverage takes place. Races for LIVE television and its world audience is supposed to start at 1305. "Signals", a running 5 minute clock to the start is to sound...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Ben Ainslie clinched a gold medal for the third consecutive Games today after winning the Finn medal race at the Olympic sailing regatta.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, China 6 AM - Saturday in Qingdao Restless I awoke with the morning light, again, which on the eastern coast of China brighten the skies at around 5am. By 545, I was out the door for a walk and to take some pictures of how this modern section of Qingdao awakens. From my hotel, I can always see lots of people out and about early, very...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, China On Wednesday I went to Laoshan with an American guy called Marcus who has set up a cash in hand tour company to various things around Qingdao. He has only just started but the place that he took me to was amazing. We caught the public bus about an hour out of town and got out at a small village at the bottom of the mountain. From there...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Clouds return to Beijing as rain greets sailors in Qingdao Posted : Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:40:00 GMTAuthor : DPA Category : News Alerts by Email )News | Beijing - After two days of sunshine, sporadic light rain and clouds greeted the athletes Sunday for the third day of athletics events at the Beijing Games. Temperatures were a comfortable 22 Celsius for the women's marathon although the rowers...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
For Ben Ainslie, Britain's most successful Olympic sailor, the voyage to the choppy waters of Qingdao began one frosty Christmas morning at the age of eight, when he awoke to find his first dinghy waiting for him on the lawn outside. Yesterday, he won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal.
M Audio Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
unknown: The taxi drivers are crazy here, but do tone it down for westerns, even so as we were pulling in front of the restaurant the driver slams on his brakes and we hear a huge crash. Very scary considering their are no seatbelts in the back … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking [...]
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Here's a look that won't catch-on, surely? Fashion statement: American 49er crew Wadlow and Rast Yes, the sailors get to wear form-fitting Nylon and Lycra which show off their impressive physiques, impressive because it shows just how much weight most of the them have shed for the light airs of Qingdao. There is a calculation which shows what energy is required...
The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Our fifth day's racing was also the first day of proper Qingdao conditions: light winds, high humidity, poor visibility and a bit of tide. All smiles: relaxing times as medal looms in China The day dawned with little wind, we weren't held ashore so we towed out to the race course ready fo...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, China On Monday afternoon I headed over to Shilaoren beach and went swimming there for a few hours then had bbq squid for lunch at a little street stall. The beach is very pretty and has quite good waves. There were quite a few people there and it was a nice sunny afternoon. I really enjoyed being at a beach after not being to one for so long. After...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Qingdao, China Quite an international gathering summer games are, and this being is my eighth assignment at an Olympiad, probably the most diverse culturally. Given the athletes represent the world, as does the media, countries rights holders but also in our case, host broadcaster. Our BOB operation, at sailing, is made up of over 150 people working...
