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China: Not to Buy Apartment Campaign Ended

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:58:07 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China

Zou Tao, a Shenzhen citizen who has launched the “Not to Buy Apartment Campaign”, has sold his property in Shenzhen, returned to his homeland in Hunan and become a peasant. Although many were looking forward for a relaunch of the campaign, Zhang hua however commented that such campaign wouldn’t help in regulating the property market [...]


Human skull found boiling in pot in Chicago apartment but it's OK: cops

Thu, 3 May 2007 19:40:00 +0000 | Newsvine China

Four human skulls were discovered in a Chicago man's apartment, one boiling in a pot of water, but authorities said charges aren't likely.


Main Photo: Rows of apartment buildings in Pudong

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Rows of apartment buildings in Pudong, from 2 dogs
[in China Digital Times]



Buying an Apartment in Shanghai

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:57:11 +0000 | chinasnippets.com

We have bought an apartment and originally I planned to write down the process. Catshanghai has done already an excellent job in describing the process. The only thing I like to add is that fees for real estate agents are negotiable. Officially they are 1% of the purchase price paid by the buyer and [...]


China: Apartment Slave

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:24:35 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China

Fu Jianfeng writes the story about how he turned into an apartment slave (zh) in my1510: in September 2007, within a month, the value of the apartment has increased two hundred thousand yuans; in October it dropped below the original price and he dare not looking at the housing market again.


Chinese dissident watched, then taken (AP)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:37:57 GMT | Yahoo! News

Hu Jia, right, and Zeng Jinyan, left,  husband-and-wife activists, pose for a picture at their home in Beijing, China, in this July 6, 2007 file photo. Though not a household name in China or abroad, the 34-year-old Hu, currently detained and facing charges of 'inciting subversion of state power',  has exercised an outsize influence from his airy, fourth-floor apartment, where he became a one-man human rights organization. Using the telephone and the Internet, he networked among activists, reporters and diplomats in China to generate international attention on the communist government's civil rights abuses. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - Nearly two dozen plainclothes police swarmed the apartment on a December afternoon, confiscating laptops, cell phones, bank cards and books.



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