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Hong Kong: blogger gathering

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 @ 00:33 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: Hong Kong (China)
Topics:: Media

Jacky writes about the weekend blogger gathering organized by sina. The topic is about media and blogging (zh).

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