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china.jpgIn the city of Zhuhai in southern China, the deputy mayor has banned Christmas trees and other flammable Christmas decorations from public places including shopping malls, stores and restaurants because he says that they are dangerous and a fire hazard.

Those places that do not follow the ban will be threatened with closure. This has obviously led to some dissatisfaction, especially as there was not sufficient warning and therefore shops have already bought their trees and decorations and are now not allowed to use them.

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Would this put a damper on your Christmas shopping?

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This entry was posted by Carolinecollard on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm and is filed under Current Events, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 

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