What we’ve been reading recently:

FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - Beijing outlines Olympic protest rules - The Olympic guide to protesting - you can’t just turn up with your placard | china olympics protest

Beijing’s Anti-Smog Efforts Failing, Independent Readings Suggest | Wired Science from Wired.com - More confirmation that Beijing’s promise of clean air for the Olympics isn’t working out | beijing olympics pollution wired

Ben’s Blog…..小本的博客 » The Foreigner Card, Don’t Leave Your Home Country Without It - Using foreigners as loss leaders… an interesting business model (h/t Danwei) | foreigners fuzhou beer

New York Times exposes their own ‘anonymous’ source - How not to quote anonymous sources | nyt journalism beijing uighur

Nightly News video : Reporters struggle to scale China’s ‘Great Firewall’ - Danwei.org’s Jeremy Goldkorn on whether journalists are just whining about internet restrictions (answer: yes). H/T to internet gfw olympics danwei.org nbc

The Beijing she knew is gone; in its place, the Beijing she loves - Los Angeles Times - LA Times staff writer Ching-Ching Ni reflects on the new Beijing and the new China as she prepares to leave the country once again | Beijing Chairman Mao

Olympic shames for mascot makers | The Sun |News - Not a bad piece of journalism by any means, but indicative of the treatment China can expect while under the wider and more intense media spotlight that accompanies the Olympic Games | china olympics mascots journalism labor

Beijing lifts loan quotas to boost slowing growth - SMCP.com | china business economy PBOC banks lending

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