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The book fair (LFB)

Publishing China Week: What you will be reading next (II): From the London Book Fair, Access Asia's Paul French looks at upcoming China titles, ranging from journalist memoirs to business analysis, history to thrillers. Also, bad titles:

There's always a few with really bad titles. A candidate for this year's most over-hyped and unimaginative title is China Fireworks: How to Make Dramatic Wealth from the Fastest-Growing Economy in the World by Robert Hsu and out in May, closely followed by Becoming Your Own China Stock Guru: The Ultimate Investor's Guide to Profiting from China's Economic Boom by Jim Trippon.

See also Gary Bowerman's overview in Publishing China Week: What You Will Be Reading Next, Part I

Scalping clamp down at Olympic venues: Although live events and performances in Beijing are often 'sold out', you can inevitably get tickets from scalpers outside.

But not at the Olympic venues it seems, not even before the Olympics have even started, at least according to the report linked here.

The link is to China Sports Today, a new website from the comrades at the GoKunming collective.

Anti-Carrefour mob attacks American in Hunan: Shanghaiist has published an email from a volunteer teacher in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province: 'a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob'.

Olympic Torch relay in North Korea to be successful: But you knew that, didn't you. Xinhua reports:

The torch relay in Pyongyang will enhance friendship between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and China, the DPRK's Olympic chief said Monday.

The event will promote the cooperation and exchanges in sports between the two countries, and will show their traditional friendship to the world, said Park Hak Seon, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of the DPRK.

Olympic torch relay in southeast Asia: At Global Voices, Mong Palatino rounds up the views of some southeast Asian bloggers:

Jotman.com liveblogged the torch relay in Bangkok. The China Mogul remarks that the Thai police prepared not only for pro-Tibet protesters:

"In the Thai capital, police prepared not only for pro-Tibet protesters but also for demonstrators who are unhappy with China's support of army generals ruling in neighboring Myanmar."