BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhang Yimou, the director of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, is struggling to fit 5,000 years of Chinese culture into 50 minutes and his biggest fear is wet weather on August 8.
China’s top film director is responsible for what is expected to be a lavish ceremony to open the Games [...]

The 43-year-old chef is one of the first of some 1000 Chinese cooks coming to England to learn how to make bubble and squeak, bangers and mash and other English delicacies for athletes and tourists at the Olympics in China this summer.
In China, what you call rubbish we cook into another delicious meal, he said.
Food [...]