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Internet chat: Premier Wen promises to raise income tax threshold

During his latest Internet chat with netizens, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the government would raise the tax-free threshold of individual income tax this year.

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Rich-poor gap: Poor pays?

Ralph Jennings posts a letter he received when he was working as an agony uncle for a Chinese newspaper: “I’m a freshman at a university in Nanjing. Recently, some of my roommates’ parents went to see them with a lot of new clothes and food.”

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