In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

  • Shanghaiist Blog – HK reporter and cameraman taken away after Olympic ticketing kerffufle in Beijing
    Hong Kong is known to produce some of the most gung-ho reporters and cameramen around. When these guys cross over to the mainland and come face-to-face with Chinese police, interesting things happen …

  • Sydney Morning Herald – We can't force China to change: IOC
    International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has distanced his organisation from China's biggest concerns - human rights, Tibet and Taiwan - as the Beijing Olympic Games looms closer …

  • AFP – China mustn't use security fears to curb dissent: Rice
    China must deal with security threats in the runup to the Olympics but avoid using them as "a cover" to muzzle political dissent, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned…

  • China Rises Blog – An Olympic oversight
    The censors sometimes fall asleep on the job. Yesterday’s Beijing News had an interesting article about an Associated Press reporter, Liu Xiangcheng, who has witnessed 30 years of changes in China's capital …

  • Times Online– China buys the silence of grieving parents
    Free 'life insurance' has been offered to families of children who were killed when schools collapsed …

  • Sydney Morning Herald – Fury vented at great firewall of China
    Beijing Olympic Games organisers bore the brunt of international media frustration yesterday as key global internet sites were shut down and the speed of the internet connections reduced to levels not seen for a decade …

  • Financial Times – Rewards and risks of Chinese legal career
    Tao Jingzhou and Teng Biao represent the yin and yang of China’s justice system. Both graduated from the prestigious Peking University law school, but they have followed very different career paths and been rewarded in very different ways …

  • Newsweek – China's agony of defeat
    It's impossible to understand what the Games mean to the Chinese without understanding their history of humiliation …

  • Shanghaiist Blog – Videos: Forced evictions in Ji'an, Jilin Province
    China Digital Times points us to these two videos of forced evictions by the local government in Jilin Province's Ji'an City that are quickly spreading throughout the Chinese internet …