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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6550725.stm

I found a lot more, but it's all in italian.

Thoughts?

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=416643&lng=1

Care to tell us what they were rioting about?

Care to tell us what they were rioting about?

That's what the articles are for.

Seems like a normally quiet group have finally blown up, I wonder how much discrimination there is?

Well its either the woman getting arrested or its noise/traffic pollution...

How to find multiple articles on the same story on the internet 101.

1) Load up Google News.

2) Search for headline of known article

3) Click the link that says 'all [number] news articles' beneath the relevant story.

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1115311232 - 10 separate articles on this item of news.

Having looked through a couple of these it seems that the rioting occured after the police allegedly hit a preganant woman who was using a wheel barrow to transport goods (apparently this is illegal). OR that the riots occured after the woman was fined (saying nothing about whether the woman had been hit or not).

How to find multiple articles on the same story on the internet 101.

1) Load up Google News.

2) Search for headline of known article

3) Click the link that says 'all [number] news articles' beneath the relevant story.

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1115311232 - 10 separate articles on this item of news.

Having looked through a couple of these it seems that the rioting occured after the police allegedly hit a preganant woman who was using a wheel barrow to transport goods (apparently this is illegal). OR that the riots occured after the woman was fined (saying nothing about whether the woman had been hit or not).

Ahhh...in the Beeb story they said

In Rome and Milan wholesale distributors of goods made in China occupy entire quarters of the two cities. It was the noise and traffic caused by these businesses which sparked off the rioting in Milan.

Shame on the Beeb it seems?

All this fuss over illegal items? Damn.

Ahhh...in the Beeb story they said



Shame on the Beeb it seems?*Blinks* Since when has 'quarter' ever been used in its literal sense to describe a section of a city? So of course they take up the whole quarter because the quarter describes what they take up... ipso facto (is that the right phrase? I suck at latin).

They also say 'The trouble began when a Chinese woman was fined for illegally transporting goods in a private vehicle.' and then say what you quoted. So yes, I think shame the Beeb. The entire article just has the feel that they have no idea what they're talking about.

They make it sound like there are hordes of Chinese people in Italy in Milan. Chinese people make up 1% of the population of Milan and 0.2% of the population of Italy. I mean before you know it the Italians will be speaking Mandarin and eating with chopsticks...

Looks like most of the problems are originated by mayor's Moratti decision of abandoning the laissez-faire attitude of the previous mayors (Formentini and Albertini, centre-right like Moratti).
Dialogue, of course, has never been considered an option.
Hence, the mayor's decision about making Chinatown a restricted-traffic area has been seen by the local chinese shopkeepers like a discriminatory move. The fine given to that chinese woman is a casus belli - tension has been rising in the last months.
It must be noted that no chinese protested against racism from the italian residents of Chinatown: their anger was aimed at the traffic police and at the riot control squads.

*Blinks* Since when has 'quarter' ever been used in its literal sense to describe a section of a city? So of course they take up the whole quarter because the quarter describes what they take up... ipso facto (is that the right phrase? I suck at latin).

They also say 'The trouble began when a Chinese woman was fined for illegally transporting goods in a private vehicle.' and then say what you quoted. So yes, I think shame the Beeb. The entire article just has the feel that they have no idea what they're talking about.

They make it sound like there are hordes of Chinese people in Italy in Milan. Chinese people make up 1% of the population of Milan and 0.2% of the population of Italy. I mean before you know it the Italians will be speaking Mandarin and eating with chopsticks...

:D

Totally agree....