Beijing Wide Open

So it turns out the Tibetan antelope doesn’t love the railway after all…
This photo of a herd of Tibetan antelope running happily under the Tibet railway, and embarrassingly one of China’s top photos of last year, has been proven to be a big, fat fake. (Click on the photo itself and see the details that […]

I woke up today to find an email in my inbox which looked like it was from an SFT UK member (I’ll call him “C”). It was sent to the SFT UK Board and copied to me. In the email C said he felt badly that he hadn’t been more involved since stepping down from […]

It took me a second to process the information I was hearing when Tenzing, one of SFT’s board members, called me this evening to say that Spielberg just resigned from his role as artistic advisor for the Olympics because of Darfur.
We so rarely hear this kind of good news. The kind where someone of Spielberg’s […]

As Britain shifts position, U.S. Olympians learn they can say what they want — in certain areas
By Philip Hersh,
Special to The LA Times
February 12, 2008
A member of the U.S. Olympic team would face no official rebuke for wearing a T-shirt that said, “Free Tibet,” while walking the streets of Beijing during the 2008 Summer Games.
Wear […]

The British Olympic Association (BOA) is already trying to distance itself from a shameful plan to force UK athletes not to say anything critical of China during the upcoming summer Games.
This article in the Daily Mail on Sunday, “Britain kow tows to China as athletes forced to sign no criticism contracts”, reported that a “controversial […]