Author Archives: Eric Mu

A gaokao scandal

Beijing Youth Daily (北京青年报): Teachers and government official found involved in a National Higher Education Entrance Examination scandal.

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A vice-chairman’s bad, bad poem

Oriental Guardian (东方卫报): A poem written by the vice chairman of the Shangdong Writer’s Association named Wang Zhaoshan recently caused controversy.

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Breastfeeding police officer promoted

Wuhan Morning Post (武汉晨报) reports that Jiang Xiaojuan, the police officer who breast-fed infants without mothers, was promoted.

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NBA broadcasting suspended in China

Bao’an Daily (宝安日报), a Shenzhen-based newspaper today reported on front page about China’s ban on TV stations broadcasting NBA games.

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Sharon Stone boycott

Today’s Information Times ran a full page special about Hollywood actress Sharon Stone’s comments about the Sichuan earthquake last week at the Cannes film festival. Stone suggested that the quake may have been a result of “bad karma” from China’s treatment of Tibetans.

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Li Ka-shing, grave robbery and a Hong Kong – Mainland legal precedent

According to today’s Information Times (信息时报): on Monday, two suspects involved in a grave robbery were questioned by a Hong Kong judge.

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Govt. loosens post-earthquake birth control

The Beijing News (新京报) reports on a modification in the country’s birth control policy with a personal account of a local villager who lost his two daughters to the earthquake.

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Tent stories in the Beijing News

Today’s Beijing News (新京报) reported on its front page about Hu Jintao’s visit to the tent manufactures in Zhejiang Province. While Mr. Hu is urging the businessmen to speed up production of tents, people are talking about that many relief tents have fallen into the wrong hands.

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Soldiers blocked roads leading to Beichuan

The big image on the front page of today’s New Express (新快报) shows a check point guarded by mask-clad soldiers. The headline that is printed on the top of the image reads “Bichuang Evacuated”.

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Newspaper suspended for unethical earthquake reporting

New Travel Weekly (旅游新报), a Chongqing-based newspaper was suspended from publishing for using bikini-clad women on the front page on its May 19 issue.”

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