By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent URUMQI, China – Riot-torn Urumqi is hosting a beauty contest. The streets are still swamped by riot police, the city tense and littered with the debris of the worst unrest in decades, but the contestants f... ...full story at NBC World Blog
from NBC World Blog on Mon, Jul 13 2009
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Miss Xuguan contest »
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