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Beijing Train Station Employee Suspected Of Scalping Tickets

In China, Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival) is the busiest travel season. Many Chinese trying to go home to visit family line up for hours, sometimes days, trying to buy a train ticket. Many times, the tickets are sold out or the tickets were all...

from YouTube on Mon, Jan 19 2009

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