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Chengdu, The Chinese Santa

Chengdu City is going to behave like Santa Claus and provide a 37.91-million-yuan (US$5.54 million) government handout to its low-income residents. Rural families in the Sichuan provincial capital on the "five... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Fri, Dec 12 2008

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