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Here's looking at you 1.3 billionth kidPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, January 6, 2005 7:31 AM
 For the last few few days, state-owned news agency Xinhua has been reporting that China's population would reach 1.3 billion on January 6. Today is January 6. So now Xinhua has a cute little photo story about China's 1.3 billionth citizen, apparently born at 00:02 this morning. Conveniently enough for Xinhua's news team, the baby was born in Beijing. Xinhua's story is here. UPDATE: The Xinhua story was edited soon after it was published. It now includes photos of the baby getting an "honorable certificate". Furthermore, lest we forget, a story titled "China to continue its population control policy" has been tacked onto the bottom of the piece. |
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