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Subject:        Fwd: incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese mapvendors fined
Date:   Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:52:17 -0700
From:   Rixanne Wehren <[log in to unmask]>
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count your freedom blessings!

rixanne
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>     http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070721/article_324256.htm
>     <http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070721/article_324256.htm>
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>     Incomplete maps illegal in China... Chinese map vendors fined
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>     Several hotel chains operating in Shanghai face fines for
>     providing guests with improper maps. Officials from the Shanghai
>     Mapping and Survey Management Office say the maps only show part
>     of China, not the entire country.
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>     The officials said they have found such maps at six hotel chains
>     in Shanghai, but they have only provided information on two of the
>     companies.
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>     The Wuyi Road outlet of the discount chain Home Inn gave its
>     guests maps that only showed one third of China, leaving out the
>     vast western part of the country.
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>     According to a hotel receptionist who declined to be identified,
>     the maps simply show the part of China where Home Inn has hotels.
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>     That is illegal, according to officials because the design of the
>     map suggests it is showing the whole country. However, if it was
>     labelled to indicate that it only showed eastern China, and it
>     included Taiwan Province, it would have been all right.
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>     The law states that any person or company found publishing maps
>     that show only part of the country can be fined up to 10,000 yuan
>     (US$1,315).
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>     Similar maps were found at several outlets of the Jinjiang Inn.
>     Those maps didn't depict several Chinese islands in the South
>     China Sea.
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>     [Souce: ASMMAG]
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