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Put out more (Olympic) flags

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.: The Olympic flame passes brightly through somewhere in the the Uyghur Autonomous Province !.: The Olympic flame passes brightly through somewhere in the the Uyghur Autonomous Province !


LDA keeps its word! Open space at Eastway to close.

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The LDA acknowledged there would be a loss of open space during the construction of the Olympic Park. I received the following information after several enquiries.


Retail therapy

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Remarkably, refutation of the inevitable benefits of hosting the Games is considered within the Olympic planning documents (Retail, Leisure and Sport Impact Assessment Appendices, Appendix 4 to the Environmental Statement, January 2004) as part of an attempt to calculate the amount and type of retail floor space that the Games could support. The Atlanta Games of 1996 was a retail disaster.


Cash crisis looms

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The £550 million funding for the London Olympics will initially come from London council tax payers, £1.5 billion from the National Lottery, followed by a further £75 million from council tax, and £250 million from the London Development Authority (LDA). The International Olympic Committee (IOC) insists that host cities underwrite all liabilities. £15 million was spent on the London bid alone (Blowe, 2004; 2005).


Rising East Online September 2006 edition

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Links to four articles in Rising East Online worth looking at

Regeneration Without End: Urban and Social Change in the East of London since the 1890s —William Mann;


The Olympic Dream: A Sci-Fi Short Story

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Please note some of the links in this article are to pages with Chinese text and some computers may not display them correctly

The following “Sci-Fi” short story has been (re)posted in many Chinese online forums and blogs, originally from SCI-FI Great Wall blog, translated by China Digital Times’s Linjun Fan.


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