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Tue 11 Nov 2009Chinese more willing to protest publicly despite tight controls
IN A dramatic demonstration of civil activism, hundreds of residents of China’s southern city of Guangzhou protested outside government offices to oppose plans for a major garbage incinerator that they say will endanger their health and the environment.
Meanwhile, crowds of people in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, took to the streets and blocked passage to the Snail Bay wholesale market, which the government wants to knock down.
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