The college entrance exams begin today! The Yangtse Evening Post has the red headline, ‘Face the examinations with a smile. Best of luck to the students.’
It reports that in Jiangsu province today 572,000 students will face examinations. The Yangtse Evening Post even has a mobile phone service, Fetion (飞信), set up in order for reporters to send texts straight from the line of action － where the examinations are taking place, analyzing pressing issues such as exam questions.
Related, another headline on the page: “14 youth tie up instructor and flees overnight.” Inside is another harrowing account of some Internet youth who have been confined inside an Internet Addiction camp in Xuyi County (盱眙县). The collective escape was foiled when two taxi drivers reported to the police that a group of teenagers had ridden a taxi overnight but did not pay. Parents were alerted and came to the police station to claim their children. The story ends with a Baidu entry on the definition of ‘Internet Addiction.’
- Yangtse Evening Post (Chinese): Face the examinations with a smile. Best of luck to the students
- Earlier on Danwei: Chang Ping on how “Internet addiction disorder” is a joke