Colours of the World
14 August 2008 Thursday | 22:15 | -
14 August 2008 Thursday | 22:15 | -
About 15,000 athletes from 204 countries and territories are in Beijing this month for the 29th Summer Olympics.
The Taiwanese supporters are also in the Chinese Capital to cheer for their sportsmen and women. Not wanting to stir more controversy and conflict by defying the Communists’ ban of the Taiwanese flag on Mainland China, they have resorted to waving Burmese flags instead.
How very creative! Their flag is banned, so they pick something similar!
Here’s a brief look at similar flag designs, if there’s a need to borrow flags in the future.
the flags made me very confused when i’m watching olympics…
after reading this…..
worse. )=
yeah… hahahah.. And so funny about Taiwanese ppl using burmese flag.. really funny!!
LMAO! i didnt know about this!! can i copy and paste it in my blog?
then what flag is used by the olympic officials to represent taiwan?
Thanks for this post, it let me have a clearer picture
of the flags…it’s really confusing man!
Some countries have the same flag but diff shades…
wah lao! who will noe, i think not even both countries’
people who share the same design of flag!
OMG!!! so many similar flags..
This reminds me of The Amazing Race Asia 2 when the winning team, Adrian and Colin, won by being able to correctly select the flags of the countries they had been to. Really not easy wor…