AFP Photo A journalist works on a laptop computer during a Beijing 2008 Olympics press conference. The Beijing Olympics were plunged into another controversy on Wednesday as China announced a backflip on Internet freedoms for the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games. Nicol Clears First Hurdle By Dan Guen Chin SINGAPORE, July 30 (Bernama)-- Datuk Nicol David sailed through to the last eight of the Singapore Women's Squash Masters 2008 at the Kallang Squash Centre here Wednesday. Victory over Egypt's Engy Kheirallah in scores of 11-5,6-11,11-6,11-5 earned the World No 1 her quarter-final place. She meets England's Jenny Duncalf, world ranked No 6, Thursday night to determine who among them advances to the last four. All in all it was a victory which Nicol deserved even though her unranked Egyptian opponent took the second game and threatened to make a fight out of it in the third. In the end the reigning No 1 ended the Egyptian's hopes and...