{"id":21813,"date":"2008-07-16T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=21813"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:24:17","slug":"stand-off-at-beijing-nail-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/07\/stand-off-at-beijing-nail-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-off at Beijing &#8216;Nail House&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7509614.stm\">BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Beijing family are refusing to move from their city centre home, despite a court order threatening to throw them out.<\/p>\n<p>Family members say they are not being offered enough compensation for the home they bought 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Their campaign is attracting large crowds, who gather at the tumble-down shack in the heart of historic Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>It could pose a problem for officials, who want to avoid embarrassing incidents ahead of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Pingju, one of 14 family members who live in the house, said it was bought before the Communists took power in China in 1949. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUKPEK17837520080619\">Threatened China household stares down wrecking ball<\/a> by Lindsay Beck, and <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jIZVQhwmJkBrTwiowNJsOFGAP9Vg\">With posters and flag, Chinese family fights eviction<\/a> by AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News: A Beijing family are refusing to move from their city centre home, despite a court order threatening to throw them out. 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