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Totally sweet new court opens in Olympic Village

Like KTV, but with jail sentences! The Olympic Village People's Court moved out of its temporary location in Yayuncun and into snazzy new digs between the Athletes' Village (to the east) and the Badaling Expressway (to the west) today. The court is the... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jul 16 2008

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