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This tech story is surreal even by 2020 standard:
- Tencent sues spicy sauce maker Laoganma for 1m+ USD default marketing payment
- The court froze L’s 2m USD asset based on T’s story
- L said they never worked with T. Turns out 3 hustlers forged L’s chop and cut the deal...
- 3 conmen used fake chop to get T to promote hot sauce in online game. They sold the game coupon came w/ fake laoganma campaign for profit
- Rumor: Tencent employee fell for the the phishing site thru Baidu search engine
- Baidu: we have nothing to do w/ it...
So Laoganma woke up one day realizing its bank account has been frozen & it’s selling hot sauce in Tencent video game for a year with no apparent reason cuz Ocean’s 3 pulled the weirdest con for online game coupons
It's even more surreal when you see the video game(GKART)'s laoganma-themed costume and the hot sauce jars sitting on the desk of those live-streaming hosts
Tencent is now trying to turn the crisis into a PR moment. It offers 1000 bottles of Laoganma as bounty for clues of the conmen
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China suspended a local cartoon after someone wrote the gov a letter reporting the characters have "inappropriate hair colors" and "misleading values". Prior to this, bright hair colors have been largely banned on Chinese TV, but it's pretty much a first for cartoons. 1/
Response from Hunan Radio & TV Bureau: the hair colors are designed to differentiate characters, & the program aims to promote "positive energy". "It's not intended to promote hair dying, but we didn't take the subtle impacts on kids into account." 2/ gbdsj.hunan.gov.cn/gbdsj/gsdat/if…
Most netizens find it ridiculous, much like other bans on real ppl's hair colors & tattoos. But similar practices have been normalized over the past few yrs. What's more concerning is the reporting mechanism that bans the show cuz one letter in the name of "positive energy" 3/
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Li Zhensheng, the Lucie-Award winning photojournalist who took over 100,000 photos during cultural revolution, reportedly passed away in New York. It’s impossible to revisit CR history without the massive archive he left behind while working as a reporter at Heilongjiang Daily
Years ago I shadowed him around Queens for a feature profile—a lovely guy with a charming (and well-deserved) ego. He gave me a tour of his community and his traditional opera group. We messaged thsis January. He has SO MANY stories.
He got to take many assignments cuz the seniors dumped work on him, the youngest in the team. Once an active “red guard”, he hid about 20,000 negatives under his house floor, including many that were considered “smearing” the cultural revolution. This is him working on set.
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A huge misunderstanding about China’s zero growth of domestic COVID-19 case:

That does NOT mean China’s elimination of domestic coronavirus infections.

Based on Chinese criteria, asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers are NOT counted as confirmed cases. Here’re the details:
1. If u look into the “COVID-19 prevention and containment plan” published by National Health Commission, you’ll find there are two separated categories: confirmed cases & asymptomatic carriers.
2. The local authorities must report both asymptomatic carriers who test positive, and the confirmed cases who show clinical symptoms like fever or lung abnormality from CT scan.
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