Tag Archives: Yangtse Evening Post

I’m sorry, we can’t serve you here. Your name’s too popular

Posted on 2009-08-28 by Eric Mu

Too many Li Juns in Guangzhou, so a man couldn’t open a bank account.

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Rio Tinto employees accused of espionage

Posted on 2009-07-10 by Eric Mu

Triplets go to college! Also, Rio Tinto gets its people arrested for spying.

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DPRK satellite: in orbit or in the drink?

Posted on 2009-04-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

DPRK’s missile or satellite and Chinese victims of the Binghamton, New York shooting.

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Top fake news of 2008

Posted on 2008-12-31 by Eric Mu

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 picker fined, barred for price manipulation

Posted on 2008-11-24 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post: Wang Jianzhong, a stock broker and market commentator will pay 125 million yuan in fine and the same amount as its illegal income for market manipulation

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Market manipulator Zhu Yaoming on trial

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Eric Mu

Once a high-flier in the stock market, Zhu Yaoming was on trial for market manipulation yesterday in Nanjing.

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Wenzhou govt. to persuade official to return from Paris

Posted on 2008-10-23 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post: Wenzhou government is going to send a team of three, including a medical doctor, to assess overstaying official’s health and persuade him to return.

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Screw the elderly, I’m keeping my bus seat

Posted on 2008-10-08 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post (扬子晚报): Should younger people give up their bus seats for the elderly?

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A shaving ceremony makes freshmen men

Posted on 2008-09-24 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post (扬子晚报): 500 18-year-old male freshmen of Fudan University in Shanghai had their first shave yesterday as a rite of passage into manhood.

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Male students barred from using dorm elevator in Nanjing

Posted on 2008-09-17 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening News (扬子晚报): Male students in a university in Nanjing are banned from using the elevator in their dormitory building.

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