Olympic Information Center: links on 7 July (1)

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All Olympic conversation, apart from the sport

- FACTBOX: Beijing's battle for blue skies (Reuters)

- Best of the China Blogs: July 7 (WSJ-blog)

- The new China brain drain... (Onemanbandwidth)

- Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Rail stages dry run (Beijing 2008)

- China Prepares Olympic Bible Giveaway (WSJ-blog)

- Websites warned for IPR infringement on Olympic streaming in China (Xinhua)

- Online Reins Will Tighten During Olympic Period (Digital Watch)

- China: Details on Olympic internet crackdown appear (Global Voices)

- Olympics: Whither the Great Venues? (Silicon Hutong)

- Beijing Smog 5 Times WHO Safety Limits - More Shutdowns are Certain (Allroadsleadtochina)

- Olympic themed 10 yuan notes (Danwei)

- Bush's Olympic Doctrine (Huffington Post)

- Is China ready for the Olympics? (BBC)

- Ted Koppel gives a lesson on China in a four-part Discovery Channel documentary (LA Times)

- Algae all clear from Olympics waters (Shanghai Daily)

This could be government propaganda, waiting for feedback from Qingdao - You

- Smugglers dig deep in bid to beat cross-border checks (The Standard)

- Tianjin Removes Vehicles and Closes Factories for Olympics, Tangshan Too (Allroadsleadtochina)

- China Olympic City Battles “Invading” Algae (China Digital Times)

Olympic Information Center: links on 6 July (China Herald)