only Chinamen can fake China products
On Apr 29, 11:39=A0pm, fruitella <visualseep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> the Tibetan flag is banned in china
>
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> Made in China: Factory making 'Free Tibet' flags raided
> 29 Apr 2008, 1607 hrs IST,AFP
>
> HONG KONG: Days before the Olympic torch is due in China for the final
> leg of its controversial world tour, police there have raided a
> factory producing Tibetan independence flags, a re****t said.
>
> Police in the southern province of Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong
> and is China's manufacturing hub, said the factory had been making the
> distinctive flags to fulfil an overseas order, Hong Kong's Ming Pao
> newspaper said.
>
> In a raid on April 20, police discovered thousands of the flags packed
> and ready for ****pment, with many more being made, the paper said in a
> re****t on Sunday.
>
> It said police believed the flags could have been destined for Hong
> Kong, ordered by pro-Tibetan groups planning to demonstrate when the
> Olympic torch is paraded through the territory on Friday.
>
> The factory owners were detained and told police they did not know the
> flags signified Tibetan independence, the re****t said, adding that
> factory employees had alerted police after seeing the flags on
> television and looking them up on the Internet.
>
> Vehicles travelling to Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, were being
> checked to ensure they were not trans****ting the flags into the former
> British colony, though police believed some could have already
> arrived.
>
> While the flag -- which shows a bright yellow sun on a red and blue
> background flanked by two snow lions -- is banned in China, it is not
> illegal in Hong Kong.
>
> The torch relay has become a focus for a wide range of complaints
> against China's communist government, including its human rights
> record.
>
> Demonstrators calling for independence for Tibet, which has been under
> Chinese rule since 1950, have dogged its progress, notably in London,
> Paris and San Francisco.
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