A pleasant place for a protest From Xinhua, via Sina.com, in translation: Special protest zones for Olympics The Beijing Olympics News Center today gacve a press conference titled 'Peaceful Olympics Beijing Security Work'. BOCOG's Security... ...full story at Danwei
from Danwei on Wed, Jul 23 2008
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