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Disney's Shanghai theme park plans OK'd

China's planning agency has approved the Walt Disney Company's proposal to build one of its massive amusement parks in the bustling city of Shanghai. ...full story at cbcnews

from cbcnews on Wed, Nov 04 2009

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