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Hong Kong: Green Olympics and Black Soul

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 @ 09:35 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China, Hong Kong (China)
Topics:: Environment, Human Rights, Politics
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

William Sin criticized Greenpeace's press release on Beijing Olympics for supporting hard handed environmental policy. Hevdevil in respond to the Greenpeace's post at inmediahk.net said that Greenpeace Hong Kong should change its name into GreenHarmony Hong Kong, as the organization has been harmonized.

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