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Posted Tue Dec 20 2011: from Associated Press:
Thousands of residents protest Chinese town's planned coal power plant, clash with police http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1324402025
Thousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coal-fired power plant because of concerns about pollution, protesters said. Riot police used tear gas in an attempt to disperse the protesters at the highway in the town of Haimen in Guangdong province, and the demonstrators hurled rocks, water bottles and bricks in return...
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