Thursday, July 19, 2007
BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - Beijing police have detained a television reporter for fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny.
A report directed by Beijing TV and played on state-run national broadcaster China Central Television last Thursday said an unlicensed snack vendor in eastern Beijing was selling steamed dumplings stuffed with cardboard soaked in caustic soda and seasoned with pork flavouring.
Beijing authorities said investigations had found that an employee surnamed Zi had fabricated the report to garner "higher audience ratings", the China Daily said on Thursday.
"Zi had provided all the cardboard and asked the vendor to soak it. It's all cheating," the paper quoted a government notice as saying.
A city-wide inspection of steamed bun vendors in the wake of the report had found no such cases, the paper said.
(Read the full story here.)
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
g3nerations
1st Sept '07, Saturday
Victoria Concert Hall, 8pm
Tickets @ $15, free seating
G3nerations is a showcase of works by three generations of composers who are linked by teacher-student relationships, with pieces by Dr Goh, his teacher Dr Charles Hoag, his peer Dr Andrew Bonacci, and several of Dr Goh's students. (Pretty fitting as a teacher's day concert, eh?) Many of the works in this concert are being performed for the first time.
Tickets through me if interested =)
We also have a "Sponsor-A-Ticket" programme! If you're not free on that day or choral music is not really your thing, you can also sponsor a ticket for charity (we'll give the ticket to someone from a home/organisation who's interested in the performance but doesn't have the financial ability to afford the ticket). Details on the benefiting organisation when I get them =)
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