Shanghai residents planning to sue over Expo

We guess it couldn't have been long before all that construction and shuffling of residents in the months leading up to the World Expo pissed off some people. 50 Shanghainese whose homes were demolished to make way for the Expo 2010 site are now threatening to sue the event organizer, the International Exhibitions Bureau, according to the South China Morning Post. At a press conference in Hong Kong, League fo Chinese Victims director Sandy Shen Ting said that 18,000 Shanghai households had been affected by the expo since 2002. Allegedly, many homes were razed without compensation, or with not enough compensation to buy a new apartment in the same district. Those who refused to leave have been beatuen or detained by police. The suit, which would be filed in Paris, accuses the IEB of allowing the Shanghai government to stage the event even though it has failed to live up to the slogan "Better City, Better Life."