Indeed, barely one hour after the polls opened on Sunday morning, China's unofficial embassy here, the New China News Agency, repeated Beijing's vow to annul the election.

Some questionable films reportedly were even sent to the New China News Agency, Beijing's unofficial embassy in Hong Kong, for assessment.

Xinhua News Agency, China's unofficial embassy in Hong Kong, yesterday released a statement regetting the government's decision as 'an extremely bad precedent'.

At least 5,000 people rallied and marched to the unofficial Chinese embassy today to deliver a petition protesting the crackdown on dissent in China.

In November 1977, an unofficial Croatian embassy was opened in Canberra, causing a legal and diplomatic difficulty for both the Australian and Yugoslav governments.

(Bophuthatswana had an unofficial "embassy" in Israel in the 1980s despite objections from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which did not recognize the bantustan as a state.)

Xu Jiatun, the head of the New China News Agency, China's unofficial embassy here, visited Hong Kong students on a hunger strike.

Bophuthatswana maintained an unofficial embassy in Israel during the 1980s, located next the British embassy in Tel Aviv.

The American Institute in Taiwan, Washington's unofficial embassy in Taipei, denied that it had sought to influence the government.

Israel had a permanent delegation in Tehran which served as an unofficial de facto embassy.