Bangkok shopping centre blaze kills 1 (Thailandnews.net)
BANGKOK: One person was killed and 41 were injured in a blaze at a Bangkok shopping mall, just days after a fire at a nightclub in the Thai capital killed scores of people, police said on Monday. ...
Beijing Games venue struck out by shopping mall (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Hopes that Beijing's Olympic baseball venue would be preserved for the future development of the sport in China have been dashed as the stadium's developer revealed it would be dismantled and replaced by a shopping mall.
Patrols cut into crime at shopping centers (Greeley Tribune)
Authorities are pointing to a surge in police patrols over the holiday season as the reason for a drop in crime around three major shopping centers in Greeley.
Police take youths shopping (Jacksonville Patriot)
Jacksonville police officers took 29 youths Christmas shopping at the city’s Wal-Mart Supercenter early Saturday morning, Dec. 20, as part of a community outreach program.
Christmas shopping as usual (The Norway Post)
Christmas shopping 2008 was not affected by the financial crisis as some had feared. It started slowly, but ended on par with the 2007 season, the Federation of Norwegian Commercial and Service Enterprises (HSH) reports.
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