Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

Beijing Umbrella

Last week, with June 4 marking the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on the student protests in Tiananmen Square, Chinese officials blocked filming around Tiananmen by physically blocking shots. Below, the experience of BBC’s Beijing correspondent. Umbrellas are one of the things I remember from Korea, Japan and China. As a boy, I think I [...]

7th June 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
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Monkey

I haven’t been watching the Olympics, mainly because the rabbit-ears on our television don’t pick up NBC. But if I were, I’m sure I’d be just as disappointed with NBC as everyone else seems to be–the tape delays, the incessant commentary. Since NBC is blocking international video feeds online, I can’t see any that way, [...]

13th August 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in China, cool, video | No Comments »