Daily Sunshine
December 8, 2009

Today's Daily Sunshine has a large red headline block about China's annual Central Economic Work Conference which XInhia says is "held once a year to set the tone for next year's economic development, comprises policy-making officials from central and provincial-level governments, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao".

The headlines read:

Clear proposals at the closing of the Central Economic Work Conference:

Loosen controls on residence permits for small- and medium-size cities
Adjust the distribution of the gross national income
Increase the supply of commercially developed residential housing

The photo of Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng is headlined "Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng said to have separated — Deng and 100-year-old mother-in-law do not get along".

The story inside is a compilation of biographical facts about Murodch and Deng, with the meat of the marital discord allegation coming from Australian politics and media website Crikey, which recently published this bit of juice:

Senior News Corporation figures in the US are openly discussing the unthinkable, that the marriage between Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng has broken down and the couple have separated. If Wendi has left Rupert that means there will be two less children to be pushed into the inheritance pot joining four from his first two marriages.

Good son-in-law of the people

By coincidence, a Danwei reader today sent in the photo reproduced here of a free inflight magazine with Murdoch and Deng on the front cover and a bilingual coverline reading "Murdoch: The good son-in-law of the people".

Maybe not for much longer.

Although there are many Chinese newspapers that reported on the Copenhagen climate change summit on their front pages, the Shenzhen-based Daily Sunshine did not.