In Ginza, Tokyo's high-end shopping district, a group of 34 tourists from Sweden was riding a large tour bus after shopping on a recent afternoon.

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March 7 on Beijing's route No. 22 public bus in a busy shopping district could have been much worse.

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The boy told the police how the day began with he and his friends taking a bus to the Bluewater shopping centre and having a meal at McDonald's before returning to Erith.

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Both firms believe that busy shoppers will welcome the opportunity to do a bit of Christmas shopping while they hang around for a bus.

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Studying CCTV, police said Mr Kershaw was seen catching a bus and collecting his pension before doing some shopping on 4 October.

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The new bus interchange will be built next to the Marlowes Shopping Centre on Bridge Street.

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The East Suffolk Travellers Association (Esta) said its own survey found the bus into town was mainly used by pensioners doing their shopping.

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He has built a vast, but shaky, empire on cut-rate services--in airlines, Internet service, car rentals, online shopping, credit cards, music downloads, a movie theater, bus service and on and on.

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There will also be a janitors "walk-out" at the Westfield Shopping Mall, a march and street festival and an afternoon "bus tour of the San Francisco 1%, " according to a press release Monday from the San Francisco Labor Council, one of the organizations that is part of the effort.

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Though the big shopping budgets of many Chinese tourists are sustaining the growth of the luxury-goods industry, the bus tours that escort most middle-class Chinese tourists in Europe usually book them into budget motels on the outskirts of Paris.

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