Today's Links: Big rogues, top jokes and child prostitution
Today's Links: Stocks, migrants and dancing gangs
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140 Mistresses ... and other Shanghai scandal news
The Telegraph, relying on reports out of Hong Kong, provides us with the latest news and gossip on the seemingly unstoppable Shanghai corruption scandal. Qiu Xiaohua, the implicated former head of China's National Bureau of Statistics who we told you about briefly last week, is said to have taken more than US$6.5 million out of Shanghai's pension fund and given it as a "gift" to his "secret mistress and their daughter." How did this generous offering come to light? It was "found recorded in a ledger kept by the head of the pension fund"! How's that for transparency?
The men who die in China's coal mines
This photo gallery of Chinese coal miners really puts a face on the plight of these laborers. Unsafe work conditions kill them by the hundreds every year. Thirty black and white photos by a Chinese photographer, online monicker k6688, commemorates lives lost in a 2004 coal mine accident in Henan. k6688's photo blog is here (in Chinese).

