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China: Beijing students forced out for Olympics?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 @ 19:48 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Education, Governance, Sport
Languages:: Chinese, English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

In ‘Beijing University Students Booted from Dorms for Olympics,' Truth From Facts blogger nator gets a tip-off to that effect from a friend, in the form of an A4 notice, and goes online to see what those at other Beijing campuses are going through.

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