Starbucks faces imperial eviction Web uproar could force coffee chain out of Forbidden City BUSINESS ASIA by Bloomberg

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: January 19, 2007| Author: Samuel Shen and Yidi Zhao | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

01-19-2007

Caretakers of the Forbidden City in Beijing may force Starbucks to close its outlet inside the 587-year-old imperial palace after the world's largest coffee-shop chain was criticized by a Chinese news anchor on his blog.The outlet is ''a symbol of low-end U.S. food culture'' and ''an insult to Chinese civilization,'' Rui Chenggang, an anchor at state broadcaster China Central Television, wrote on his personal Web log. The blog has...

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