A former Tsuen Wan District Councillor has received a suspended sentence for making false expense claims.

What lessons can be learned from the more than 50 country boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980? The protest movement was led by American President Jimmy Carter to punish the Soviets for invading Afghanistan, but the Soviets would remain in Afghanistan for the next decade. It was the Olympic athletes who suffered the […]

Paul Midler discusses product quality issues with this most recent example:
A Shanghai pharma company may have managed to disqualify the entire Greek weightlifting team from the Olympics after shipping them tainted health supplements. A surprise inspection of the Greek team by the World Anti-Doping Agency revealed that 11 of the team’s athletes had unapproved substances […]

Once again, U.S. policy is making it difficult for Americans to criticize other countries without being labeled hypocrites. I'm looking forward to that election in November.
The U.S. Department of Justice, living up to their name:
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay […]

So far, this Wired piece is the only article I've read in the past two weeks about the Olympic torch that is even remotely relevant to the lives of most of the people actually engaged in protests around the world.
Hint – it's an environmental topic. To whet your appetite, here's a quote:
By the time this […]