BEIJING — Demonstrations against French supermarket chain Carrefour erupted in cities across China on Saturday, fueled by anger over the disruption of the Olympic torch relay when it went through Paris nearly two weeks ago.
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Protests were reported in the capital, in Wuhan in central Hubei province, in Hefei in eastern Anhui province and in the southwestern city of Kunming.
Other protesters gathered outside the French Embassy and the Beijing French School.
Carrefour is the second-largest "hypermarket” in the world after Wal-Mart Stores Inc. It has 122 stores in China employing 40,000 people.
Calls to protest and boycott goods from Carrefour spread through Internet chat rooms and via cell phone text messages after the pro-Tibet protests disrupted Olympic torch stops.
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Thai leg of torch run finishes smoothly
Thousands of people followed the Olympic torch through the sweltering streets of Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday with little of the dissent that has accompanied some of the relay's earlier stops.
The nearly three-hour run faced no disruptions by demonstrators protesting China's recent crackdown in Tibet.
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