(Kiev is now Kyiv)

[colkitto]

.... and apparently as China was officially switching from Wade Giles to 
Pinyin, and changing the names of certain cities from Cantonese to Putonghua

(cf. Cologne/Koln, even Kiev/Kyiv)

a correspondent from one of the London papers was told

"take a flight to Peking and cover this story ........
oh and you'd better go to Beijing as well."

----- 

Robert Orr 

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