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1600 cameras to be installed on Shanghai buses

With the recent bus blasts in Kunming which claimed three lives and suspicious SMS messages to warn some residents from taking buses on the day of the explosion, the Shanghai government is taking no changes with the Olympic soccer matches being held in... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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