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China's "Stubborn Nail" loses house, gets pay-out (AFP)
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:23:49 GMT | Yahoo! News
AFP - Workmen in China demolished a house that attained almost iconic status because of its owners' refusal to move for a huge property project, but their three-year battle may have paid off.
Chongqing Couple Reaches Agreement, House Razed
| Findory News China
Washington Post: BEIJING, April 3 -- For weeks, the little house sitting stubbornly atop an earthen pillar and surrounded by a busy construction site was a symbol of individual rights in the face of China's breakneck and often heedless economic development.
China's 'nail house' is pulled out of its lonely site
| Findory News China
International Herald Tribune: After a 3-year standoff, bulldozers demolish the house in downtown Chongqing to make way for a redevelopment project.
China ?Nail House? Demolished at Monday Night
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:32:27 +0000 | China View
Bulldozers moved in during Monday (Apr. 2, 2007)
The house comes down as kung-fu man gives up fight
Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:09:00 +0000 | Newsvine China
In the end the "nail house" of Chongqing, so called because its proud owners refused to be hammered down by Chinese developers, went less with a bang and more of a whimper.
China: Implications of the ?Nail house? case
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:04:55 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China
China Media Project has a nice round up on the media discussion concerning the implications of the Nail house case.
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:25:46 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China
Hegelchong translates parts of a comment written by XiaoWu on the Nail House report: Imagining the victim as a heroine of human rights is only a wishful thinking of ordinary people. … …
