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Taiwan: Huge crowd at 1025 protest

Several media outlets reported that 600,000 people attended the 1025 Safeguard Taiwan protest on Saturday in Taipei. A-gu live blogged on the protest tracking the news reports of several TV channels. Travels around Taiwan had a post featuring photos of... ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Mon, Oct 27 2008

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