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Pop singer Man Wenjun arrested - drug bust at Coco BananaPosted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
 Beijing Times May 20, 2009 The public image of pop singer Man Wenjun is that of a responsible man whose name is generally associated with charity work. He's most famous for the sappy 1997 song "Understanding You" (懂你), and his career has been unmarred by scandal. Yesterday, however, he was arrested for drug use during a raid on Coco Banana, a nighclub located outside the west gate of the Workers' Stadium. The photo on the front page of the Beijing Times shows the nightclub, which has been ordered to suspend operation. According to an eyewitness, the police raided the nightclub yesterday morning around two o'clock. About ten people were taken away, the 40-year-old Man among them. Police confirmed Man's arrest to the newspaper. An anonymous source was quoted as saying that Man and his wife were celebrating her birthday at the nightclub with some friends. The article does not provide any information about the type of drug Man and his friends were using, or what punishment they might receive. Song Ke, CEO of Taihe Rye Music, Man's record label, expressed his shock at the news, as did an official from a charity foundation dedicated to children suffering from brain paralysis, which has Man as an ambassador. In the latest flu news, the bottom of the front page reports that an Italian woman suspected of being infected with Influenza A(H1N1) put under quarantine at a hospital in Zham, Tibet, where she was touring. So far there have been a total of four confirmed cases of the flu in Mainland China. Links and Sources
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Comments on Pop singer Man Wenjun arrested - drug bust at Coco Banana
At the Coca, Coca banana
The hottest spot south of Haidian qu
At the Coca, Coca banana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Coca....they went to jail…
sorry, couldn't resist
Men become corrupt when they are rich.Man Wenjun is not a good guy by all standards. Labor camp will be a good place for him over the next decade.
nonymous - nice lyric, wrong district.
No one gets busted or goes down in China unless there is some outside motivation. Especially for such a trivial matter as drug use.
Wonder what he *really* did or who he pissed off...
At the Coca, Coca banana
The hottest spot south of Haidian qu
At the Coca, Coca banana
Music and passion were always the fashion
At the Coca....they went to jail…
sorry, couldn't resist
Posted by: nonymouse | May 21, 2009 10:30 AM
dude, you are out of your mind and an idiot..... coco is the worst club i have ever been to and i can DJ much better than that dude. it just sucks. glad police cracked it down. so the shitty house music wont disturb the neibourhood.
aah, come on, Coco Banana was the best crack house with KTV in the capital.
Coca banana? F'n COCA BANANA? What kind of name is that? A "Chinese take" on the Copacabana? A salute to chocolate covered bananas? LMAO
"...pop singer Man Wenjun...most famous for the sappy 1997 song "Understanding You" (懂你)."
Sappy...is there any other kind of Chinese song?
Baconana ftw.