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Shenzhen Evening News , July 30, 2010 News that woman in Shenzhen having her rectum "stitched closed" by her midwife during her cesarean delivery touched a chord with the public whose discontent to the current health care system often lead them to assume the worst when it comes to doctors'...
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Modern Express , July 29, 2010 Reporting around the explosion in a plastics factory in Nanjing has been patchy. The factory, which has been called a "time bomb" before a gas leak killed 12, was in newspapers in the former capital today. Modern Express is a Xinhua-run commercial newspaper. Today...
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Dongguan Times July 28th, 2010 This morning, Dongguan Times published an exposé on the resurrection of slot machines in surrounding townships. These illegal devices were recently stamped out by localities to reduce gambling in the area, an effort which met with temporary success. Dongguan Times reports...
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Oriental Guardian , July 27, 2010 Microblogs are a great resource for commuter newspapers. At just 140 characters, an entire microblog post can be quoted in a front page news-bite with enough space left over for a headline and short introduction. Today's Oriental Guardian reproduces a post by director...
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The Beijing Times , July 26, 2010 The Beijing Times headlines today's newspaper with the story running at the top of Xinhua's Chinese language website and on a number of papers around the country: the government's new rules to deal with "naked officials", i.e. government officials...
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Modern Express , July 23, 2010 Typhoons and flooding in the south are on many Chinese newspapers front pages today. The Modern Express , a regional paper owned by Xinhua and published in Zhejiang, reports that a five-storey high tree fell over in Nanjing, while in Changzhou a three-storey building collapsed...
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Daily Sunshine , July 22, 2010 Song Shanmu’s (宋山木) detention period was extended one month while awaiting trial on a rape case for which he was arrested on May 21st. Song allegedly demanded a female employee to pose naked while he photographed her, and then used the photos as blackmail to force the employee...
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Yangtse Evening Post , July 21, 2010 Jiangsu's Yangtse Evening Post calls attention to the potential for rain in the evening. It also says that rain lowers temperatures by 10 degrees centigrade. However, tomorrow brings another hot day. The photo itself was actually taken the day before at Nanjing...
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Daily Sunshine , July 20, 2010 There's not much that's sunny about the front page of today's Daily Sunshine : Jia Baoyu is angry : Yu Xiaotong (于小彤), who plays the young Baoyu on the new TV adaptation of The Dream of Red Mansions , got into a scuffle with a spectator at a promotional event...
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Zhengzhou Evening News , July 19, 2010 A community patrolman in Zhengzhou picked up a pigeon with the following note strapped to its neck: Xiao Mei: I really haven't done anything to hurt you. We've been together for five years. Don't you know what kind of person I am by now? It's too...
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Modern Express , July 15, 2010 A series of shampoos are manufactured by the Bawang famous brand (霸王驰名商标), and they all claim to use Chinese herbal remedies for special effects － e.g. its signature brand, endorsed by Jackie Chan, turns hair a 'naturally black and sleek. The Xinhua-run Modern Express...
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Tibet Business Daily , July 14, 2010 FAKE screams the headline on today's Tibet Business Daily . Aromatic rice from Wuchang, Heilongjiang Province, is considered one of the best types of rice in China. In 2009, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine recognized...
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Shenyang Evening News , July 13, 2010 Today's Shenyang Evening News splashes images from a hospital bribery scandal on its front page. At the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, the family of a woman suffering from an anorectal abscess secretly recorded a department director who...
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Henan Business Daily , July 12, 2010 The World Cup ended in the early hours of Monday morning. The Henan Business Daily didn't go with a picture of the Spanish triumphant, instead, a supposedly real-life version of Stephen Chow's (周星弛) film was played out at the Shaolin Temple in Henan province...
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Southern Metropolis Daily , July 9, 2010 Hu Yihua (胡益华), a native of Zhejiang, shot down two policemen in Guangdong and a couple in Zhejiang. His arrest in Xiamen yesterday has been covered in papers today. Newspaper gave him the title 'sole bandit' ( Southern Metropolis Daily ) and ' evil...