Latest news: Olympics-2008: China reveals emergency measures to improve air quality
Beijing (dpa) - China plans to take more vehicles off the roads and suspend operations in more than 200 factories if air quality does not improve, the government announced Thursday, as polluted air and grey skies continued to plague Beijing one week before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games.
If the air quality forecast is "extremely unfavourable" 48 hours in advance, authorities are to consider requesting Beijing, the neighboring Tianjin municipality as well as Hebei province to carry out emergency measures, the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.
It was unclear whether monitoring would begin right away or 48 hours before the games are scheduled to begin on August 8.
The Olympics should be about all nations getting together under a common banner for a common reason, good natured sports. This Olympics doesn't follow that at all.
Yea they'res a lot of polluted air so some people aren't going. Also, some of the images might be censored so we can't see all of China, and that may mean missing out on some of the games.
The Olympics is an international event. It will be heavily guarded by professionals from many countries. Besides, there will be people from their own culture and country there anyways. It would be dumb to bomb their own people. Terrorists in general are against western culture, not just going on a suicidal rampage to kill as many random people as possible.
