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China: Where's Our Nest?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 @ 05:12 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Development, Humanitarian, Labor, Sport
Languages:: Chinese
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

Tiger temple interviewed construction workers of the Olympic stadium, “Bird nest”. They have built the nation's nest but themselves remain in a nest-less state. The citizen journalists will post his series at my1510. Part I and Part II.

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