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Front Page of the Day
Pictures of people on the groundPosted by Banyue, January 15, 2008 5:40 PM
Today's Southern Metropolis Daily features a police bust on the front page. A bus station in Foshan, Guangdong, was home to a gang of thieves who preyed on unsuspecting out-of-towners in the guise of motorcycle taxi drivers. Police swooped in and arrested fourteen of them yesterday (link). This is a popular sort of story. Last August, the SMD reported the arrest of 23 bus-station thieves and revealed one scam the gang used: visitors to Foshan who hired a motorcycle taxi would be informed that out-of-area mobile phones were liable to be confiscated by the police; sure enough, a "plainclothes policeman" would show up to search for contraband (link). The paper's top headline asks why natural gas customers are being double-charged. The red headline on top of that announces the opening of the 10th session of the province's political consultative conference. At the bottom of the page
People on the ground also made the front page of The First today. The photo here is of Air China's Olympic flight attendants learning how to crouch in a standard position. Inside the paper is a report about what's going on at their training camp. Other headlines:
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