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Blue paper, white lies - Chinese whispers delight commuters

Preface

Rumours of Chinese film star Andy Lau's death have been greatly and frequently exaggerated by Beijing's unscrupulous so-called "blue tabloids", keen to sell their illegal papers to commuters. The papers are a publishing phenomenon and an especially surprising one, given the Communist government's short press leash.

Credits

Writer: Clifford Coonan



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