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Candlelight vigil for earthquake vctims at Shanghai's People's Square

Your correspondent has just been informed by a friend that there will be a public candlelight vigil tonight in Shanghai at People's Square for the Wenchuan earthquake victims. Translated, the message reads: Tonight at 8pm we'll be lighting 100,000... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Mon, May 19 2008

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