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Owen Gibson reports on the Guardian:

The BBC has recruited the unlikely pairing of Huw Edwards and Damon Albarn to help meet the “unique challenge” of covering this summer’s Beijing Olympics as it attempts to walk an editorial tightrope between news and sport.

As it geared up for the logistics of transmitting live round-the-clock coverage for 17 days from August 8, the BBC said the decision to send Edwards, the anchor of the 10 o’clock news, reflected the importance of the games as a political and cultural event.

Adrian Chiles is to host the breakfast slot, and Gabby Logan will front the prime-time highlights. “There are always going to be news stories from a games, but there will be more than normal [here],” said Logan.

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The Guardian reports:

Forget Andy Murray, who was watched by a mere 10.5 million viewers on BBC on Monday night. The remarkable Jie Zheng was watched by an estimated television audience of over 100 million in China yesterday as she became the first woman from that vast country to reach the last four at Wimbledon. The audience in Shanghai alone was 14 million.

Zheng, ranked 133 in the world having been No786 at the turn of the century, also became the first wild-card entry to reach the semi-finals here as she beat Nicole Vaidisova, the 18th seed, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.

The most heart-warming piece in this story is that Zheng, who turns 25 on Saturday, will not pocket one penny of the £187,500 in prize money she is guaranteed so far. She will donate her winnings to the fund set up following the earthquake in the Sichuan Province in south-west China in May which killed 60,000 people and left five million homeless.

“I would like to give all the money,” she said, “but some will go to the tennis association. Apart from this I will do some charity work when I get back after Wimbledon.”

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Jane Macartney reports for The Times from Beijing

Aleksandr Zverev sheltered for three weeks in caves after being flung from his raft in the Chinese wilderness.

By night he covered himself with leaves and branches to ward off frostbite. By day he drank river water and hoped for a miracle. He went without food for 25 days.

What started as the adventure holiday of a lifetime, shooting the rapids of one of the fastest-flowing and most dangerous rivers in western China, was ending in tragedy.

Mr Zverev believed that the river, which swells for only two months a year, had claimed the lives of his five companions. The remote Taklamakan Desert — its name means “you go in but you don’t come out” — was threatening to do the same to him.

Full report

 

Letter from the Accenture Asia Pacific Network (APN) dragon boat racing team:

Hello!

This year, the Accenture Asia Pacific Network (APN) will partake in the annual charity dragon boat race in support of the Mother’s Bridge of Love - MBL (charity no. 1105543) and the Chinese Mental Health Association - CMHA, (charity no. 1058934).

Most of the team member’s current level of fitness maxes at stretching out their arms and and probably touching their …..knees… so the training will hurt and the results be a joy to watch!

The race is Sunday July 1st so this is an URGENT appeal for you to be fast and generous (c’mon it’s summer!) - every penny helps!

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: MBL will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

So whip your credit cards and donate to us today!

To sponsor MBL: please click on SPONSOR US NOW.

Many thanks,

Accenture Dragons AKA [Stephen O’Neill, Harry Taylor,Killian O’Rawe,Sharon Chu, Tina Hau,Raymond Hau, Melind Hau, Xi Chen, Maria Soutemenoglou , Peter Yuen, Yuting Kuo, Jessica Lam, Jo Owre, Adrian Li, Chris Lau, Christy Liu, Grace Leung, Denise Qi, Michael Hsu, Gary Chan, Jian Qin, Jason Ten,Kie Lam ]

Go to the online donation page

 

The four relay teams running the Edinburgh Marathon Relay 2007 for the charity Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL) have successfully finished the Marathon Relay, within 3hrs 30min. to 4hrs. Here are some photos taken by the volunteers supporting the four teams.

Photographers of Edinburgh Marathon Relay 2007 (1st and 2nd series) were taken by Chen Xu, Chen Lei, Shi Lei, Yang Yang, Ma Yan, Dai Yihuan, Lu Pin

09 Relay team Golden Team captain Wang Mei

10 Relay team Flying Panda’s Fu Yu in action

11 Relay team Red Army and MBL’s Wendy Wu

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The four relay teams running the Edinburgh Marathon Relay 2007 for the charity Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL) have successfully finished the Marathon Relay, within 3hrs 30min. to 4hrs. Here are some photos taken by the volunteers supporting the four teams.

The Edinburgh Marathon 07 started from Prince Street

Finish line in Musselburgh Racecourse

Relay team Golden Team

Relay team Great Wall

Relay team Flying Panda

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Four teams will run Edinburgh Marathon Relay tomorrow (27 May) for the London based charity Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL). The relay teams, named as The Golden Team, Red Army, Great Wall, and Flying Panda, are formed by runners from Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Birmingham, of all nationalities. The four runners of every team will each run about 4.2 to 8.5 miles. The race will start from Prince Street, under the famous Edinburgh Castle, and finish at Musselburgh Racecourse.

Wendy Wu, the executive director of Mother’s Bridge of Love, praises the runners’ and supporters’ involvement is the prove of, “the power in uniting passion, resources and energy to support our Chinese children who have been abandoned, who have suffered from health, who have never had a chance to touch a book.

“I believe strongly ‘Love awakens love’! It is you that your love makes this event happening and make the public aware of our Chinese kids who are in need of help.”

LinkChinese UK, an community of Chinese students, professionals and young generation of migrants, are running a live reporting of the progress of the four teams. Supporters on the ground will use text message to update a live blog of MBL’s Edinburgh Marathon Relay runners.

Each of the four teams has built an online donation page for the charity:

1.Golden Team: http://www.justgiving.com/carol_mbl

2.RedArmy : 　 http://www.justgiving.com/redarmy

3.Flying Panda http://www.justgiving.com/flyingpanda

4.GreatWall: http://www.justgiving.com/greatwall_mbl

Mother’s Bridge of Love website:
http://www.motherbridge.org

 

The following photos of London Marathon 2007 are contributed by LinkChinese UK member 味精

 

Mother’s Bridge of Love, a UK charity supporting adopted Chinese children in the UK and China, is calling for runners to participate in the coming Edinburgh Marathon, raising fund for the charity.

Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL) MBL is a charity that aims to share Chinese culture and help Chinese children in China and the UK. Founded by the renowned writer Xinran (Good Women of China, Sky Burial), this charity has been providing many services for Chinese children in the UK, such as art workshops, language courses, and support and helps for the adopted Chinese children and their families. It is also raising funds for Chinese children in poor rural areas of China to better their living conditions and provide education opportunities.

Two runners, Wang Mei and James Barrie, have already established a group of people who will participate in Edinburgh Marathon Relay (27 May 2007), raising fund for MBL. They are now calling for more runners to join them. A Relay team is consist of 4 runners, each of them will run for about 6.5 miles (10 kilometers). They hope having more runners will raise more fund for the charity. In their letters calling for support and sponsorship, they said, “Your support and sponsorship are very important for MBL to continue its work on helping the Chinese orphans and the British families adopting them, to build cultural bridge between China and the UK, and to sustain and further improve its services to Chinese children in both countries. “

Interested party should contact Mother’s Bridge of Love.
Website: motherbridge.org
Tel:0044 20 7034 0686
Email: headoffice@motherbridge.org
Coordinate: Yihuan Dai vl.yihuan@motherbridge.org

Runners and Donation site:
http://www.justgiving.com/carol_mbl

Edinburgh Marathon 2007:
http://www.edinburgh-marathon.com

LinkChinese UK and CYPE (Chinese Young Professionals in Edinburgh) are two supporting partners of the charity run for MBL.

 

Chinese athlete, Asian Games champion Zhou Chunxiu won London Marathon in record warm temperature, becoming the first Chinese woman to win the race.

BBC News reports:

In punishingly warm conditions, the 28-year-old broke away from Lornah Kiplagat and Gete Wami after 22 miles.

Zhou won in a time of two hours, 21 minutes and 38 seconds with Wami second and Romanian Constantina Tomescu-Dita coming through well to finish third.

Mara Yamauchi was the leading Briton, coming sixth after running a strong second half of the race while Liz Yelling was eighth.

But Kathy Butler dropped out halfway through in the difficult conditions.

Zhou, Kiplagat and Wami had moved away from the field between 10 and 12 miles but it was the Chinese woman who was stronger over the latter stages.

Read the full report on BBC News

Video: Zhou Chunxiu won London Marathon 2007: