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Taking dad to work for 6 years and other storiesPosted by Alice Xin Liu on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM
 Chongqing Morning Post, April 7, 2010 On the front page of today's Chongqing Morning Post is a plethora of eyeball-grabbing stories. The main top headline announces that the Chongqing Reform and Development Commission will soon reveal how they are planning to spend 1 hundred billion yuan worth of investment. The main picture, on the left side of the page, tells the story of Li Qingping (李清萍), who works at a industry and commerce office, and her filial determination to take care of an aging father. The old man spends his days sitting on a bench in her workplace. The middle-right column features a picture of a woman, with a large caption declaring that this is a case of "lip-syncing" by a girl from Chongqing (渝女): she got slapped with a 50,000 yuan fine. Inside it was reported that Chengdu's Fang Ziyuan (方梓媛) and Chongqing's Yin Youcan (殷有璨) were both fined the amount. It was also highlighted that only 3 children in Shanxi were ill because of faulty vaccines, the other 12 investigated were not. Lastly, news that a Chongqing miner rescued from Wangjialing can already eat noodles! Links and Sources
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Comments on Taking dad to work for 6 years and other stories
Pretty sure that 殷 is pronounced Yin1 when it is a surname—not Yan.
Oops, that was my mistake. Thanks for correcting me! It's corrected in the post, too.