IOC awards Olympic Cup to the people of the People’s Republic of China
19 Feb 2022 – The people of the People’s Republic of China have been awarded the Olympic Cup in recognition of their support for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The announcement was made by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during…
Electing future Olympic Winter Games hosts
17 Feb 2022 – At the end of Beijing 2022, the local organising committee will pass the Olympic flag to the Milano-Cortina 2026 Organising Committee – host of the next Olympic Winter Games. The host for the following edition in 2030 has yet to be…
Olympic Solidarity helps athletes shine at Beijing 2022
15 Feb 2022 – There are 236 Olympic Solidarity scholarship-holders from 67 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competing at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, and many of them have already achieved landmark results for their countries. Here, we look at some of the…
IOC Young Leader Shiling Lin feeling “lucky and excited” to be part of Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Relay
04 Feb 2022 – Shiling Lin admits she doesn’t remember much about Beijing 2008, when the Olympic Games first came to her homeland. Growing up in Quanzhou, some 2,000km from Beijing, she was only 13 at the time and remembers thinking…
Cartoon of the week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
“Vegas ON”
Las Vegas Launches High−Octane Hosted Entertainment Show “Vegas ON” LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) recently launched a new video series titled “Vegas ON,” featuring everything new and now in Las Vegas sports, entertainment, dining, nightlife,…
Putin launches nuclear drills as US says Russian forces ‘Uncoil’ for Ukraine attack
From Newsmax President Vladimir Putin launched exercises by Russia’s strategic nuclear missile forces on Saturday and Washington said Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s border were moving forward and “poised to strike.” With Western nations fearing what could be one of…
Slavery belongs in the past
From Freedom United “I spent 25 years in slavery. It was traumatizing, it was painful, physically and mentally. I felt sub-human, demeaned, socially dead.”[1]– Curtis Ray Davis II, Executive Director of Decarcerate Louisiana, and formerly incarcerated. A staggeringly disproportionate number of…
5 Technology Advances on Hair Salon
Clients increasingly expect simplicity, ease, and speed from every service in the services industry. Technology is becoming an integral element of the procedures, from scheduling appointments to using services and making payments. Your salon business must be prepared to keep…
PAHO launches 120th Anniversary campaign
Washington, DC, 18 February, 2022 (PAHO) – Today, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) kicks off its anniversary campaign to celebrate 120 years of active work promoting health and wellbeing throughout the Americas, with a calendar of events set to catalyze dialogue…
