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Developers build road around holdout home in China

By Didi Tang

Associated Press

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LAST UPDATED: 08:03 a.m. HST, Nov 23, 2012

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Luo Baogen holds his land certificate as he stands next to his house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling city in east China's Zhejiang province Thursday.

BEIJING >> In an eastern Chinese city, a five-story row house with ragged edges rises incongruously from a huge circle in the middle of a new main road, with freshly laid black pavement swerving around it.

This is the home of the duck farmer who said "no."

Luo Baogen and his wife are the lone holdouts from a neighborhood of once-connected homes that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.

Dramatic images of Luo's home have circulated widely online in China this week, becoming the latest symbol of resistance in the frequent, countrywide standoffs between homeowners and local officials accused of offering too little compensation to vacate neighborhoods for major redevelopment projects.






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livinginhawaii wrote:
Can this be true? Communist house dwellers have more power/freedom than Oahu property owners who have been condemned for rail?
on November 23,2012 | 04:34AM
serious wrote:
My thoughts exactly.
on November 23,2012 | 05:13AM
HAJAA1 wrote:
No they don't. Oahu property owners are generally just more lazy and expect the government to do the work for them just like all other democrats. These people are tireless workers. Good for him!
on November 23,2012 | 01:45PM
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