In today’s wrap-up from media outlets and bloggers around the globe:

On it's way: the six-ring circus SMH Corporate sponsors of the Beijing Games and the Australian Olympic Committee have been ducking for cover as the Olympic flame gets closer to Canberra …

China condemns Paris honour to Dalai Lama Reuters – China condemned on Tuesday Paris's decision to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, warning that the gesture had damaged ties with France …

Chinese dissident Hu chooses not to appeal: lawyer AFP – Leading Chinese dissident Hu Jia will not appeal a guilty verdict meted out to him for attempting to overthrow the Chinese government…

Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan Shanghaiist Blog – Here's an email we received from a teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob …

Fear of Far Eastern Economic Review Danwei Blog – An unconfirmed rumor from a media industry source says that the April 18, 2008 issue of the print edition of the Asian Wall Street Journal was banned or had page 7 removed by CNPIEC, the state entity that controls the import of most periodicals and books into China ...

Torch’s night of luxury before VIP-only relay The Australian – The Olympic torch's turbulent journey took a bizarre twist in Jakarta yesterday with a dead-of-night police escort to a luxury hotel ...

China says arms bound for Zimbabwe may be recalled Reuters – China said on Tuesday a shipment of weapons bound for Zimbabwe may return home after South African port workers refused to unload it and two other southern African nations denied it access …