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• The weekend's good news: Starbucks closes store in Forbidden City

  Published: July 14, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Starbucks Sucks, Bad Coffee, Consumer Protest, Forbidden City

  close their store in the Forbidden City in the PR of China. The Forbidden City was built in mid 1400 and was home to many of China's rulers, until 1911. Well, since the fall of the Chinese version of communism in the republic, just like in Russia, some kind of rampant, more or less unrestraint capitalism has taken hold in the country. The

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• As Beijing Olympics Near, Homes and Hope Crumble

  Published: July 12, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Beijing, Olympics, Near, Homes, And, Hope, Crumble, China, Yu Changsheng, Forbidden City, Deng Xiaoping, Geneva, Hu Jintao, Lu Dahong, Mao Tse Tung, Nicholas Bequelin, Wang Zhenjiang, Wen Jiabao, Zhang Donghua, Zhang Xingshui, Centre On Housing Rights And Evictions, Human

  BEIJING -- One place tourists aren't likely to see during the Olympic Games next month is a nut shop just north of the Forbidden City. Plastered with posters of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao and four Chinese flags, the little building appears held together...

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