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Underground world hints at China’s coming crisis
To understand how far ordinary Chinese have been priced out of their country’s property market, you need to look not upwards at the Beijing’s shimmering high-rise skyline, but down, far below the bustling streets where nearly 20m people live and work. There, in the city’s vast network of unused air defence bunkers, as many as [...]
Supertramp, Classic Albums Live – Crime of the Century
Sunday, 13 February 2011 – Meaford Hall Classic Albums Live are back with Supertramp’s Crime of the Century. Sit back and enjoy all the hits: Rudy, Bloody Well Right, Dreamer and of course the title track, Crime of the Century. The Classic Albums Live is not a tribute band, but recreation of your favourite album [...]
Protests turn violent in Cairo as opposing sides clash
Pandemonium reigned Wednesday in Cairo as stinging tear gas was fired in the epicenter of the citys demonstrations, fueled by running street battles between pro- and anti-government forces. In a surreal scene resembling the movie “Ben-Hur,” demonstrators thundered through the crowds on horses and camels in central Tahrir Square. At least one man was pulled [...]
Unrest in Egypt: The battle of Cairo is over, or is it?
I KNEW it was truly over when I came home to find a neighbour in a panic. He had smelled a fire nearby. We traced its source soon enough, after climbing to the roof of my building. Smoke drifted from the garden of the villa next door, where workers had recently been digging a peculiarly [...]
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