A round-up of front-page news in China involving cases of fraud:
“Police in Humen, Guangdong Province busted a fake beer producer yesterday, reports today’s Dongguan Times. The article said that the producer replaced the labels and caps of cheap Shanshui-brand beer with those of the more expensive Tsingtao beer, creating three thousand fake Tsingtao beer bottles in a single day. The big photo on the front page shows the water tank which was used to remove the labels…”

Joel Martinsen picks up on a humorous Chinese article about the young gymnasts:

“Looks like someone in the Chinese media has a sense of humor.
Yesterday’s Mirror ran a two-page feature on China’s gymnastics teams, profiling the team members and applauding them for their fine performance at this year’s Olympics. The articles were illustrated with composite images depicting the teams as a ‘boys class’ and a ‘girls class’ (shown here) to illustrate their ‘graduation’ into the ranks of world-class athletes…”

In the Southern Metropolis Daily, columnist Wang Xiaoshan wonders if it’s too soon to joke about the earthquake:

“The lighter topics in the Mobile Paper could help to ease people’s emotions. But really, there are lots of different ways to be lighthearted, and to design a quiz around the earthquake at this point in time is a little stupid, to put it mildly.”

The front page of China’s Information Times blares “Sharon Stone is an enemy of the whole nation” and says the anti-Sharon Stone movement started “spontaneously.”