=================================================================================== Beijing Olympics End, Paralympics Set to Begin The Beijing Olympics have been declared a sporting success. Attention is now turning to the Paralympics, which many hope will improve the situation for the disabled in China. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing. The Beijing Olympics ended Sunday night with a grand closing ceremony. Beijing's organization, infrastructure, and iconic sports venues for the games drew widely praised during two weeks of competition. IOC chief Jacques Rogge (L) stands with BOCOG president Liu Qi during closing ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 24 Aug 2008 Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, declared the Beijing games a success that would leave a lasting, positive legacy. "Through these Games the world learnt more about China and China learned more about the world," Rogge said. Beijing is now gearing up to host the Paralympics - the world's biggest sporting event for those with physical disabilities. Disabled people have long been discriminated against in Chinese society. Many advocates for China's disabled hope the Paralympics will help millions of people be able to better integrate into society here. Tang Xiaoquan is president of the China Disabled Persons' Federation and vice president of the Beijing Olympic committee. She says they will take the opportunity of the Paralympics games in Beijing to greatly improve accessible facilities. She says this will help the 999,000 people with disabilities in Beijing better integrate into society. China has 83 million disabled people. Most of them find it difficult to travel and hold jobs because cities have few facilities that are accessible for those using wheelchairs or crutches, or who have vision problems. As part of its Olympics preparations, Beijing has made all of its subway stops accessible to wheelchairs. During the Paralympics, there will be 16 dedicated public bus lines for the disabled and 400 shuttle buses. The Chinese government requires all new buildings to have accessible facilities, and older public buildings are to be renovated to provide access. More than 4,000 athletes will compete in the Paralympics, which begin September 6 and last 12 days. The athletes will compete in and stay in the same facilities used for Olympics, including the popular Water Cube and Bird's Nest stadium. ----- Original Message ---- From: Neak kampuchea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:54:56 AM Subject: Re: Chau Bury is a Khmer Krom extremist leader group to destroy Cambodia. On Aug 23, 11:00 am, Neak kampuchea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chau Bury or Chan Bury or Chanta Bury is the same guy from KK group > that carries Vietnamese toilet at all time. When he pronounces some > thing, he starts with "Vietnam occupation". > > Yes occupation on KK heads in South Vietnam, but it’s not in Cambodia. > She is free to spend dollars on any street, but in Vietnam foreign > currency circulating is prohibited. We get freedom to move and to > choose inter-racial marriage with Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and > others. We are in here accepting integration among ethnicities in > which million and million new face of Cambodia have been coming up > everyday. > > This main stream Cambodian is reaching majority in which every > Cambodian must be cooperated with each other to loudly speak out > together for educationally bringing “Chunkampuchea” into the public > mind set. This is our sole duty for psychologically unifying all > Cambodia's inhabitant without discriminating of origin of birth of > anyone if we want Cambodia to get strong with diversity. > > Remember, pronouncing person race is an insult, from which would be a > big push for Cambodia social disintegration and devastated disaster. > > Cambodian democracy needs to have courage for changing the old way of > thinking for adjusting to the continued changing Cambodian social > fabric. We must defuse racism time bomb and have a strong political > support from a novel policy of non discrimination of origin of birth > to start with as a win-win strategy by using a new speaking term for > winning hearts and souls of every diverse Cambodia’s inhabitants. We > need one Cambodian society as a one big Cambodian nation in a one > strong Cambodia. This is a unique way for forging all Cambodia’s > inhabitants into a one solid Cambodian national UNITY. ================================================================================== --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
