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Shanghai Disney Project Includes Hotels, Shopping

The $3.6 billion planned Disney theme park in Shanghai, which could open by 2012, includes hotels and shopping and could be one of the largest foreign investments ever in China. ...full story at WSJ

from WSJ on Wed, Nov 04 2009

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