September 6, 2007
Information Times, a paper under the Guangzhou Daily Newspaper Group, is published out of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
Today’s top headline is about a drug kingpin who invested in television programming as a way to launder his money. The police claim that he ran five drug factories; he’s also the top suspect in the last big drug bust, which involved four tons of highly purified methamphetamine.
The front page picture shows a new Pepsi can design. In the fourth quarter, Pepsi will switch its cans from blue to red in the Chinese market this fall. This follows Coca Cola’s recent advertising campaign.
As previously reported on Danwei, the waltz has arrived in Guangzhou schools. The headline over the left-hand picture reads “Only hand-in-hand for school dancing, not hand-on-waist”; in the minds of many parents, the bad kind of touching leads to young love.
Other headlines: charity organizations call on people donate their extra moon cakes to poor people; the Asian Games has an anti-corruption hotline; and four cases of dengue fever were found in Guangzhou last month.
Inside the paper is this frightening image of a 17-year-old who was knifed in the back coming home from an evening at the ice-rink with his friends. After his assailant ran off, the victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. (link)