Friday, April 13, 2007

The Nail House

China -- It has been dubbed ''the nail house.'' Sticking out like an upright nail, the house and its owner have stubbornly refused to be hammered down by a property developer who has bulldozed everything around it in Chongqing.

The owner, 51-year-old restaurateur and former kung-fu champion Yang Wu, has become a folk hero in China for refusing to surrender, even when his home became an isolated island in a vast excavated pit at a construction site.

The man and his wife have refused to go until they are given property of similar size in the same area.

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