Voyagius

@ wikipedia

Following the tragic death by stabbing of an American tourist last week, The Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks now announced it will carry out random inspections of tourists entering some of the main parks in Beijing as of today. Tourists carrying “fruit knives” longer than 8 cm will be stopped for checks. Always good to hear security measures are implemented and as such voyagius has nothing against it. The point is: why check on the tourists? I assumed they were the ones that should be protected. The victim definitively was a tourist and that’s something that can be doubted about the attacker. Apparently he was from Hangzhou, possibly disgrunted and as all migrant workers are dispelled from Beijing and based on his age he might have been a “taiye qingnian”.
Meat knives are not mentioned but I suppose they are prohibited as well so if you intended to take your pig out to one of the parks and butcher it there, I suggest you leave it at your hotel room, at least till after the olympics. As for the fruit knives: one of the few varieties of fruit I can think of that would require a knife longer than 8 cm would be a (water)melon. So if you plan to carry whole watermelons with you when visiting the temple of heaven be prepared for a check.

source: xinhua news agency

Shanghai foreign residents, or more specifically expats, have been requested to register as blood donors, to overcome the  shortage of  rare  blood types (Rh negative). Voyagius cannot overcome the feeling that this time coincides with the opening of the Olympics, but with a total donation of 100 liters from expats  in relation to 80.000 liters donated by local inhabitants, the request seems plausible. The Shanghai blood center, also a ” stand by” blood center during the Olympics in Beijing, can be visited here.

source: Shanghai municipal government

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