A Bryson in China: Post Olympics Beijing

Monday, March 09, 2009

Post Olympics Beijing

It's been a tough few weeks of news about Beijing:

First, fireworks for the Chinese New Year, burned the towering new Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Fortunately, it hadn't opened yet. One firefighter was killed. But what a fire! Incredible video and story here.

Now this week, NBC reported on post Olympics Beijing being overbuilt (over 100 million square feet of vacant office space), and struggling to find uses for the Water Cube and Stadium.

But I'm not finding any news about the pollution since the Olympics.

Labels: Beijing