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Trinidad & Tobago, China: All That Glitters

Monday, August 11th, 2008 @ 15:36 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: China, Trinidad & Tobago
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture, Cyber-Activism, Development, Economics, Human Rights, Law, Media, Protest, Sport, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: 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

Trinidad and Tobago-based blogger Tattoo says that “China at least certainly leads the world in something: the capacity to hide the dirt with glitter and gold.”

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Photographer Damoncoulter presents some pictures of the Secondhand Book Fair in Shimbashi (Tokyo).
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