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Getting Around: Pretrials, paper capers, and People's Square air

Metro news from the local press: The case of the young man who was squeezed to death between the metro train and the glass security doors on the Shanghai Stadium Line 4 platform will begin pretrial procedures tomorrow. The People's Daily has... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Thu, Nov 15 2007

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