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Pepsi's gonna dress in redPosted by Banyue on Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 5:40 PM
 Information Times September 6, 2007 Today's top headline is about a drug kingpin who invested in television programming as a way to launder his money. The police claim that he ran five drug factories; he's also the top suspect in the last big drug bust, which involved four tons of highly purified methamphetamine. The front page picture shows a new Pepsi can design. In the fourth quarter, Pepsi will switch its cans from blue to red in the Chinese market this fall. This follows Coca Cola's recent advertising campaign. As previously reported on Danwei, the waltz has arrived in Guangzhou schools. The headline over the left-hand picture reads "Only hand-in-hand for school dancing, not hand-on-waist"; in the minds of many parents, the bad kind of touching leads to young love.  Inside the paper is this frightening image of a 17-year-old who was knifed in the back coming home from an evening at the ice-rink with his friends. After his assailant ran off, the victim was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. (link) |
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Comments on Pepsi's gonna dress in red
is that a knife or a machete?!
It's like something out of a HK gangster flick. If this stuff really happens, imagine what else must be going on down in GZ...
Absurd.. a desperate call for help!
Liked what they did with the cans in the summer but this is silly and shows no originality!
A great compliment to Coke If you cant beat them copy them!.. is this the best you guys can come up with?
Stabbings look gruesome, but here's a statistic I bet you didn't know:
Your chance of dying from a non-professional stabbing (say in a mugging that got nasty) is around 1 in 60.
Them's good odds!
Some things just don't look right.. Pepsi "almost coke" red cans is one of them..I had heard Piracy was a problem in China but really did not expect it to be coming from a company like pepsi..