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Go ahead, buy your Olympic tickets, but you may not get your China visa

From the highly authoritative People's Daily:The Beijing Olympics official website recently released "A guide to Chinese law for Foreigners coming to, leaving or staying in China during the Olympics" (hereinafter referred to as "the Guide"). The Guide... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Jun 06 2008

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