Author Archives: Eric Mu

Shandong tax authorities dismiss alleged high “bread tax”

Pan Yaomin, a Ji’nan CPPCC member (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference) and local wheat mill manager recently earned cheers for taking on the government’s tax regime, especially, the tax levied on one particular food: the steamed bun.

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Judge warns against “fake divorce”, calling it highly risky

To circumvent the new regulation, some of the most undaunted investors came up with ways to exploit the legal pitfalls: among others, “fake marriage” and “fake divorce”.

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Celebrity Na Ying’s alleged abuse of power raises online outcry

New Express: Na Ying, a Chinese pop singer becomes the target of an public outcry for celebrity power abuse.

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Alert: Recycled color contact lenses may damage your eyes!

Yangtse Evening Post: the newspaper alerts readers that many colored contact lens in the market are recycled ones imported from abroad and may cause damage to users’ eyes.

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Worker’s apartment becomes garden in the air

Wuhan Morning Post: News reports on brutal demolition grace front pages quite often these days, and here we have yet another: to force the residents to leave their home, developers tore away the stairs in a apartment complex in Mianyang, Sichuan Province.

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Guangdong Party Secretary on bicycle to promote green Guangzhou

New Express: Guangzhou announced the opening of 2,372 kilometers of “green routes” as part of its attempt to promote “green and low-carban tourism”.

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Three policemen die in shootout and car chase in Tai’an

Modern Express: Shootout and chase in Tai’an leaves three policemen dead

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Police officer attacked by Chengguan, left with a broken thigh

Beijing Times: In another incident that testifies to Chinese Chengguan’s famed brutality and total regardlessness of the laws, in Kunming, Yuannan Province, a police officer got a broken thigh from a squad of Chengguan, China’s urban administrative enforcement officers often staffed by goons and thugs.

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Beijing opens five new metro lines in one day

The Beijing NeFive new subway and light track lines debuted yesterday, giving the people living in Beijing a new year surprise.

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China publishes its first anti-corruption white paper

Jiangjiang Evening News: The Chinese government just published its first white paper on the government’s anti-corruption efforts. The white paper, compiled by Information Office of the State Council, was billed to be a “thorough and systematic introduction to the basic situation of the Chinese government’s efforts to combat corruption and to be a clean government”.

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