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World Briefing | Asia: China: Blog May Close Ancient City Starbucks
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:06:01 EDT | New York Times
Half a million Chinese Internet users have backed a campaign initiated by a television anchorman on his blog to drive a Starbucks outlet from the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the Palace Museum, which administers the Forbidden City, is thinking of closing it down, The China Daily reported. The anchorman, Rui Chenggang, wrote in his blog that Starbucks?s presence was ?not globalizing, but trampling, Chinese culture.? Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said the museum was working with Starbucks, which opened the outlet in 2000, to find a solution.
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The yard of the Baijuyi Museum, located in Suzhou city, east China, is already filled with garbage, even though the attraction was only opened to the public two months ago.
New textbooks put space between Taiwan and China (Reuters)
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:46:17 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - New high school textbooks that drop
phrases linking China and Taiwan as one country have reached
Taiwan's classrooms, the publisher said on Monday.
China's National Museum, Beijing, Closes
Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:12:09 +0800 | Letters from China
For a three-year renovation (AP via China Daily). Link:Official website of the National Museum of China...
Imax to Install 2 Theaters in China
| Findory News China
International Business Times: Giant-screen theater owner Imax Corp. said Wednesday it signed a deal with the China Science and Technology Museum to install two Imax theaters as part of the new museum to be built in Beijing in 2008.
Guggenheim mulls museum project in Beijing (Reuters)
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:58:28 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is considering developing a museum project in Beijing, its director said on Friday during a visit to China.
