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A Home on the Internet Shelters Beijing’s Homeless (Updated)

Commercial urban development in Beijing and the attendant demolition of old residential areas has produced huge numbers of homeless in China’s capital, many of them migrant workers from the countryside stranded by the faltering economy.   One Beijing blogger – Laohu Miao (Tiger Temple) to his fellow netizens, Journalist Zhang to the vagrants of Tiananmen Square – has taken up their c