Beef Noodles Bin Laden: No....but Saddam's OK

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the Times of India. Maybe the proprietor had a healthy understanding of
business culture but was not allowed to verify this in the market....Note
too that there have been some reports that China is helping the Taliban as I
recall. Pugliese will have them!!.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

China shuts 'Beef Noodles Bin Laden'




BEIJING: A restaurant named for terrorism suspect Osama Bin Laden has been
closed by authorities in China's Muslim northwest till the time it changes
its name.

Beef Noodles Bin Laden closed this week just days after opening in the city
of Lanzhou, a local official said on Saturday.

The city acted after residents complained about the name, said the state
newspaper Workers' Daily. It said officials cited the restaurant's
"unhealthy understanding of business culture."

The official of the Lanzhou commercial office, reached by telephone,
couldn't confirm the reason for the closure. He gave his name only as Mr
Feng.

It isn't the first business in Lanzhou to pick a politically charged name.
Another restaurant named itself Saddam's Beef Noodles after the 1991 Gulf
War, and is still doing a thriving business, the Workers' Daily said.

China has some 18 million Muslims, mostly in the northwest. The communist
government worries about the influence of radical Islam, and has endorsed
the US campaign to catch Bin Laden.