News of today

The good warm weather outside the window just put me off from working long hours these days. I came home after squash games and it was only 6:30. I cooked and watched BBC news on TV. There were a few news that caught my eyes.

1. The Italian tax authority published every tax-payers' tax declare on the web for the sake of transparency, outraging people. It finally closed the website upon a formal complaint from one of the country's privacy watchdogs.

2. The traffic of the whole Israel stalked, everyone stood with their heads bowed at the siren that marked the remembrance of the 6 million Jews died in the holocaust. BBC interviewed a survivor in Schindler's list, who is now 85 years old. Oskar Schindler had saved about 1200 Jews from concentration camps, but had gone bankruptcy after drifting from one failed business to another. Later in his life the Jews whom he saved gave him monthly pensions. A German news web reported this national memorial of the Jews. When will a Japanese news agency reports the sirens in Nanjing that remembers the Nanking Massacre, or the Chinese Government acknowledge the mass murder at Tienanmen Square? So many Chinese people are proud of hosting the Olympic games in Beijing. I will only be proud of being Chinese when we have a national memorial day on every June 4. Everybody makes mistakes. Only people who remorse and correct their own mistakes will make a great country.

3. The Olympic torch relay arrives Hong Kong. Can it be taken any more seriously than cat-walks of power-lusting blokes smirking for their achievements? I feel sorry for the athletes who made it to the relay. It could have been an worldly acknowledgment for their hard work and sacrifice, but only winds down to a display of filthy cronyism.