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Wen Jiabao takes a phantom train

State media reported that Wen Jiabao took the nonexistent D18 train back to Beijing.

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Fake news concocted by Beijing Times sent bank stock price plunging

Today’s Beijing News reprinted a Xinhua article about the six newspapers that were found running fake news and admonished recently by the media monitor GAPP.

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Follow-up: The car firecracker story and soft advertising

A blogger takes issue with a story about a fireworks death that ran in the online media’s Auto Channel.

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Top fake news of 2008

Today’s Yangtse Evening Post runs a end-of-year roundup of the top 10 fake news in the Chinese media.

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Stock market trembles at a fake People’s Daily editorial

Guo Guangdong (ιƒ­ε…‰δΈœ) writes about a widely-circulated, fake People’s Daily editorial blasting the stock market.

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