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Small protests for big problems

The Financial Times in China reports about what is happening in terms of protests in recent weeks: Traffic in Beijing's central business district came to a standstill last Monday. Police cordoned off a 200-metre stretch of busy Guanghua road,... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Mon, May 25 2009

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22 Mar 08		Olympic torch still going to Tibet » YouTube videoAdapted from The Straits Times Interactive 20 March 2008 The Tibetan leg of the Olympic torch relay will go ahead as planned despite the recent violent protests in Lhasa. Beijing's Olympic Organising Committee made the announcement as Chinese...
03 Feb 08		Fog worsens central China's traffic logjam » china.org.cn Three weeks into the worst winter weather crisis in five decades, heavy fog shrouded parts of central China's Hunan Province on Sunday, delaying flights and bringing road traffic to a standstill.
03 Feb 08		Fog worsens central China's traffic logjam » People's Daily Three weeks into the worst winter weather crisis in five decades, heavy fog shrouded parts of central China's Hunan Province on Sunday, delaying flights and bringing road traffic to a standstill. In the capital city of Changsha, vis ...
08 Nov 08		Taiwan: reports of protests in Taipei » Global Voices Insightful and detailed accounts of the 6 November protests by the Far-Eastern Sweet Potato and Michella. The Bala Daily reports on a student protest at the Executive Yuan that was broken up by police.
17 Aug 09		Henan steel mill sale halted after protests » Danwei Keith Bradsher in the New York Times reports that the privatization of a state-owned steel mill in Anyang, Henan Province, has been suspended following large-scale protests last week: The newspaper China Daily reported on Saturday that the police had...
07 Sep 09		Urumqi returns to peaceful life after mass protests » People's Daily Life in west China's Urumqi City, disrupted last week by mass protests triggered by hypodermic syringe attacks, had returned to normal Monday. On the first day of the week, traffic increased on Guangming Road, downtown Urumqi, and there was...

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