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The Battle of Beijing - Part 1

At the scene of the Olympics ticket sales, the Beijing police manhandled Hong Kong reporters and got kicked in the balls. ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Sat, Jul 26 2008

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25 Jul 08 visit HK journalists removed from covering Olympic ticket sales  »  YouTube video(2008-07-25) Journalists from at least four Hong Kong print and electronic media organizations were forcefully obstructed and removed from the scene when they tried to cover the Olympic ticket sale outside the ticket office in Beijing this morning.
26 Jul 08 visit The Hong Kong Reporters Deserve To Be Beaten?  »  ESWN Should Li Yapeng have assaulted the reporter who tried to film his daughter? Should the Beijing police have assaulted the Hong Kong reporters trying to cover the Beijing Olympics ticket sales?
25 Jul 08 visit Police takes away Hong Kong reporter  »  Shanghai Daily MORE than 30,000 Chinese people queued up for their final chance at Olympic tickets overnight at a ticket agency in Beijing today, forcing local police to take temporary measures to prevent chaos. A Hong Kong reporter...
29 Jul 08 visit Olympics: journalists face harassment  »  Guardian Blogs Journalists are having trouble going about their work in advance of the Beijing Olympics. Several reporters, photographers and TV camera operators have suffered harassment, from both police and citizens. C M Yeung, of Hong Kong-based Now TV, says he...
26 Jul 08 visit Olympic ticket sales have a rocky round 4  »  Shanghaiist Editor's note: Yesterday, we told you about the Olympic ticketing kerfuffle in Beijing and the subsequent scuffle between a Hong Kong reporter and cameraman and the police. Here's a first hand account by our woman on the ground, Maggie Rauch, who presents...
14 Aug 08 visit Beijing Olympics drive sales boom in flat-panel TV in 1H  »  People's Daily The Beijing Olympics have boosted sales of flat-panel TV to 6.1 million units in China in the first half, up 84.9 percent year on year, according to a report of a Hong Kong-based IT market research and consulting company under the China Center for...

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