Asia Times article on Wu Ping and Yang Wu, who are seeking to keep their home from being taken by developers. The developers have already dug the ground surrounding the home:
House owner Wu Ping shows the verdict of a local court which orders her family to move out of the house behind her, in the middle of a construction site in Chongqing, in southwest China, Thursday, March 22, 2007. Wu and her husband have stirred up an Internet and media frenzy over their fight to keep their home and restaurant from being razed by developers, in what is seen as the first major test of a newly passed private property law. (AP Photo/EyePress, File)
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A house sits in the centre of a 10 metre deep pit dug by the real estate developer in southwest China's Chongqing municipality March 29, 2007. A couple, Yang Wu and Wu Ping, in Chongqing are holding out against property developers days after a court ordered them to abandon their home, local media reported on Monday. The home has become an island surrounded by a construction site up to 10 metres deep. All of their neighbours have moved, having accepted compensation offered by developers who want to build a shopping mall. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA) CHINA OUT
Supporters pass food and water to property owner Yang Wu in his lone surviving house in an excavated construction site in Chongqing, in southwest China Saturday, March 24, 2007. Yang defied a court order to move, after refusing an offer of compensation from the site developer. The dispute comes days after China's controversial new property law, which protects private property rights, was approved by the country's legislature. (AP Photo/EyePress)
People walk past a house sitting on a mound in the middle of a construction site in Chongqing, in southwest China, Thursday, March 22, 2007. The family who occupy the house refused an offer of compensation from the land developer, but was ordered by the local court to move before March 22 or the house would be demolished by force. However on Friday the court announced the house would not be demolished yet, and that it would hold a press conference to explain the situation. The case has attracted a lot of attention in local media after China's legislators last week passed a law providing the most sweeping protection for private businesses and property since the nation's move toward a more capitalist-style economy beginning in the late 1970s. (AP Photo/EyePress)
China's national flag is raised on top of a house, whose owner refuses to vacate due to compensation disagreement with the real estate developer, in southwest China's Chongqing municipality March 21, 2007, a day before the deadline set by a local court for the owner to move out, China Daily reported. Picture taken March 21, 2007. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA)
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