links for 2008-07-31

• China claims pollution success as skies clear - Yahoo! Singapore News
  China claimed success on Tuesday in its pre-Olympic battle against Beijing's infamous pollution, as strong winds helped clear the thick smog that has hung over the Chinese capital this month.(GZE2 - Amazing what a typhoon can do)
  (tags: china weather olympics pollution)
• China to censor Internet during Games: official - Yahoo! Singapore News
  Other sites were also unavailable to journalists, he said, without specifying which ones. (GZE2 - Uhhh...the BBC, CNN, and this blog)
  (tags: china internet censorship)
• The Standard - Disney Lands a Magic Deal
  Troubled Disneyland has been thrown a lifeline deal which will allow eight million more mainlanders to visit Hong Kong - but only if they go to the struggling theme park and nowhere else. (GZE2 - Oh joy)
  (tags: china disneyland)