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Article: China's police to launch online monitoring of train ticket scalpers
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 14, 2009
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China's police to launch online monitoring of train ticket
scalpers
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's police are monitoring the
Internet in a crackdown on train ticket scalpers preying on millions
of travelers trying to get home for the traditional Spring Festival.
A Ministry of Public Security spokesman said Wednesday that
police would take effective measures to find those responsible for
rampant scalping during the annual peak travel season.
Police launched the "Blue Shield" campaign against scalpers on
Dec. 15, and to date had arrested more than 2,300 people and
recovered 78,000 scalped train tickets, including 60,000 fake
tickets, with ...