OT: Guess Where "Free Tibet" flags are made?
Therion Ware
'Free Tibet' flags made in China
Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free
Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the
flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and
did not realise their meaning.
But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem
and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao
newspaper.
Tibet independence
The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered
from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an
independent Tibet.
Workers who had grown suspicious checked the meaning of the flag by
going online.
Thousands of flags had already been packed for shipping.
Police believe that some may already have been sent overseas, and
could appear in Hong Kong during the Olympic torch relay there this
week.
The authorities have now stepped up the inspection of cars heading to
the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and onwards to Hong Kong.
The Olympic torch is due to tour Hong Kong on Friday. It will then
travel to a series of cities in mainland China before reaching Beijing
for the start of the Olympic Games in August.
Its progress around the world has been marked by pro-Tibet
demonstrations in several cities - including Paris, London and San
Francisco.
Rallies began in the main Tibetan city of Lhasa on 10 March, led by
Buddhist monks.
Over the following week protests spread and became violent -
particularly in Lhasa, where ethnic Chinese were targeted and shops
were burnt down.
Beijing cracked down on the protesters with force, sending in hundreds
of troops to regain control of the restive areas.
But it has since agreed to resume talks with representatives of the
Dalai Lama.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7370903.stm
Published: 2008/04/28 13:01:37 GMT
© BBC MMVIII
Greywolf
"Therion Ware" <autod...@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message
news:foqd14hbrc2d9kf59...@4ax.com...
It's just astonishing that production got so far along without anyone in
Chinese government catching on sooner. You just wonder, though, what
is going to happen to the 'sales rep' who successfully transacted that
order.
Greywolf
raven1
<autod...@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
That's hysterical! My Irony-o-meter is still in the corner, laughing.
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:00:42 +0100, Therion Ware
> <autod...@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
>
> That's hysterical! My Irony-o-meter is still in the corner, laughing.
I take it you got the model with the optional laugh-matic pressure
relief valve.
Nicely done. Did you pick it up on EAC-Bay?
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raven1
You owe me for a new keyboard!
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raven1 <quotht...@nevermore.com> wrote:
Fine. Just upload a scan of the receipt via the Official Portal on the
EAC Web Site. You know the URL, of course.
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