Wanbao! Wanbao! Jul 7, 2008: Police Attacks, Olympic Stories, More

Who This Is For: The Shanghai police force, Olympians, and just about everyone else in The Jing

Countdowns: 32 days until the Olympics; 61 days before the Paralympics

On Page One...

• Shanghai police force: We Were Attacked, Here's The Whole Story. (THe story's about the Zhabei case on October 5, 2007.) (Big Headliner)

• 32 Olympic stories are waiting to be told -- inside the Olympic Green by mid-July. (Big Pic)

• Official cars for the Games are now in Beijing, with GPS on. (Bottom Headliner)

Elsewhere...

• Terminal 3D will be put into use tomorrow. This is home to Olympic charter flights. 10 minutes per passenger at customs check for the Olympics; 15 for Paralympic people. Zippy stuff. (Page 2)

• Got any Swiss Francs? Give it to the Bank of Beijing. Yup, our local bank can do forex, too. So what if you don't exactly have Le Corbusier in your pocketbook? No sweat: the Bank of The Jing does forex in USD, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD and EUR, too. Currency TLA (three-letter abbrev) heaven. (Page 2)

• Tickets on the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity express train won't be higher than CNY 70 if you're doing first class -- no mre than CNY 60 if you're doing second or standard class. (Page 4)

• If you're working somewhere with temps over 33°C, you get an extra CNY 60 per month. It's called the "heating bonus", if the translation's supposed to make sense... (How evil. Bonuses for sweating. The whole thing sounds -- you know, you want to sympathize with those doing the sweating!) (Page 5)


Posted Jul 7th 2008 10:56p.m. by davidfeng
filed under Beijingologist

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