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| Chinese city hotels asked to turn away people from five Muslim countries |
| 2016-08-28 |
| [DAWN] Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Moslem-majority countries to stay, though China’s foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy. Three hotels with rooms costing about $23 a night said they had received police notices as early as March, telling them to turn away people from Pakistain, Syria, Iraq, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Afghanistan. "I’m not clear about the reason. We just can’t take them," one hotel worker said by telephone. ’Pakistain among countries on the list’ The notice appears only to apply to cheaÂper hotels at the bottom of the price scale. All of the five countries have been beset by terrorist attacks in the past few years, or in the case of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have been in states of war. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said on Friday the rule appeared to be a security measure coinciding with a development forum being held in Guangzhou this week, and also ahead of next week’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, though the two cities are more than 1,000km apart. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 They're going nuts with the G20 preparations. Tons of cops on the street, even in cities hundreds of miles away. Extra searches. Foreigners are usually prohibited from the cheapest Chinese hotels, though it is not a law. They'll just lie and say they were full. |
| Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 2016-08-28 01:34 |