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No blacks or Mongolians for bars, or no sources for SCMP?

From Beijing Boyce: Tom Miller of the South China Morning Post reported today that bars in central Beijing have been instructed to not serve blacks or Mongolians during the Olympics: Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Jul 18 2008

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