satire
Either People’s Daily has woefully made a fool of itself, or, as a handful of netizens conjectured below, they did this on purpose: The Communist mouthpiece dedicated a 55-photo slideshow to Kim Jong-Un on its website when it seriously reported that the North Korean leader was named by “U.S. website The Onion” as the Sexiest Man Alive of the year.
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From @zeeko Guizhentang (literally Guizhen House) is China’s largest producer of bear bile – by extracting bile from live bears with abdomens slit open. Since news that the Fujian-based company has filed for an initial public offering broke on Sina Weibo alongside gruesome pictures of cuddly bears suffering, clamors against the cruelty and the bile [...]
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He is an American. He names himself Mike on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service which combines features of Twitter and Facebook and has 90 million users. He has recently come to China. That’s all we know about him so far. An average Joe who loves and seeks adventure in the Middle Kingdom, just like [...]
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Photos from Weibo and Wenxuecity At around 2:50 p.m. on Tuesday, a subway train on Shanghai’s Metro Line 10, which connects downtown Shanghai, the city’s airport and several universities and tourist attractions, was rear-ended by another after an automated signal system failure at around 2:10 p.m. caused controllers to switch to manual operation by telephone. [...]
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