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Travel agency plans tour of collapsed building site

A TRAVEL agency in northeastern China planned a package tour next week to visit the collapsed Lotus Riverside apartment building in Shanghai's Minhang District. Fenghuang Travel Agency in Shenyang City, Liaoning... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Jul 23 2009

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