BME pain olympics
- Filed under: Asides, Gossip, Personal Growth, information
- Date: Aug 12,2008
I got this as an email this morning from my friend in Hong Kong. I never have second thought that this would be irrelevant to post but since it’s still Beijing Olympic season, I’d rather share this with you. Opps! Not as a BME pain olympics.
Email Title: “Chinese stands its brand as the World’s Big Fake Producer.”
Olympic child singing star revealed as fake
BEIJING—The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show’s musical director has revealed.
Pigtailed Lin Miaoke was selected to appear because of her cute appearance and did not sing a note, Chen Qigang, the general music designer of the ceremony, said in an interview with a state broadcaster aired Tuesday.
Photographs of Lin in a bright red party dress were published in newspapers and websites all over the world and the official China Daily hailed her as a rising star on Tuesday.
But Chen said the girl whose voice was actually heard by the 91,000 capacity crowd at the Olympic stadium during the spectacular ceremony was in fact seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, who has a chubby face and uneven teeth.
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Part of fireworks display in Olympics opener faked.
Not all the fireworks seen on TV during the opening of the Beijing Olympics on Friday night were real. Some were actually computer generated images.
An early part of the televised spectacular was “faked” because of fears over live, aerial filming, the Daily Telegraph of London reported online on Sunday, quoting Chinese organizers.
“As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic, drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens inside the Bird’s Nest National Stadium watched as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks processed gloriously above the city from Tiananmen Square,” according to www.telegraph.co.uk.
“What they did not realize was that what they were watching was in fact computer graphics, meticulously created over a period of months and inserted into the coverage electronically at exactly the right moment,” it added.
The report said the fireworks were there for real, outside the stadium. But those responsible for filming the extravaganza decided in advance it would be impossible to capture the sequence—all 29 footprints—from the air.
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Fake Mickey Mouse statues at the Beijing Olympics
A little over a year has passed since China’s fake Disneyland was exposed and forced to clean up its act, but high profile examples of international trademark violations seem to still exist in Beijing. With two weeks to go until the start of the Olympics, the Japanese press has discovered that Beijing has built fake Mickey Mouse statues to celebrate the games.
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Fake Olympic merchandise is secretly for sale in China
SHANGHAI — IF ANY place would be selling cheap, pirated copies of Olympic souvenirs, it’d be the Yatai Xinyang Fashion and Gift Market, a notorious underground maze of stores in Shanghai’s suburban Pudong district. Fakes of Prada, Callaway, Apple and countless other famous brands abound — mostly in plain sight.
At one toy shop, the mention of the Beijing Olympics prompted the merchant to reach for a black suitcase. It was filled with racks of bootleg watches. He flipped through them and pulled out a pair of his-and-hers Omegas with the colorful five-ring Olympic logo inscribed across the face, above the words “Swiss Made.”
“I’ll give it to you for $45,” he said of the men’s timepiece, rubbing the black band to show that it was real leather. “Don’t go. We can deal. I’ll give you a cheaper price for two.”
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Beijing police nab fake Olympics cigarettes
BEIJING — Beijing police detained seven people for producing and selling counterfeit cigarettes bearing the Beijing Olympic Games logo on the packaging, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
Police confiscated 258 cartons of cigarettes and a large amount of packaging materials in a May 28 raid on a house in Chongwen district, in the southeast of the city. BME pain olympics!
More than 80 cartons had the brand names “Olympic Zhonghua” — meaning “Olympic China” — or “Olympic Beijing” and carried the Beijing Olympic logo, Xinhua said, citing the Chongwen Branch of Beijing Public Security Bureau.
Police also seized 238 cartons of counterfeit cigarettes, including 23 cartons sporting the Olympic logos, in a cigarette shop in the southwestern Fengtai District, after the suspects confessed to supplying the shop.
Beijing has been vigilant against counterfeit or unlicensed goods baring the logos of the Olympic Games, which begin on Aug 8.
It has also pledged to restrict smoking in most public places before the Games, although organizers admitted that banning smoking altogether in Beijing would be impossible.
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News Clip: AFP, BBC
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