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Picnic on the Stairs with a Stranger

Since it became mandatory to wear masks outdoors and dining-in was banned, I had been curious about how people had lunch if they did not have an office. So I bought a take away meal to see for myself.

At the stairs, I saw a cleaner sitting and preparing to eat.

“May I sit here and eat with you?" I asked.

"Sure! Where else can you sit if you don't sit here? But don't sit too close to me, I'm dirty right now!" the man said with a laugh.

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More than just a COVID-19 case number


Besides his case number, little was known about the elderly man who visited his wife every day before he succumbed to the virus. A Stand News reporter takes on the heart-rending task of reminding us that each casualty from COVID-19 had a story and left behind loved ones. He entreats us to remember our growing pains from the previous year's protests and continue to thrive in spite of our struggles.

https://telegra.ph/He-is-not-case-1487-but-an-88-year-old-man-who-loved-his-wife-08-25
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The Poor Man’s Luxury Sofa in China: Netizens Question Authenticity of Chinese Government Visit

Responding to Xi Jinping’s call for eradicating poverty in all of China’s impoverished rural community by 2020, the Administrative Committee of State Economic and Technological Development Zone of Pingxiang in the province of Jiangxi published an article on WeChat titled “District Leaders Supervise Work on Fighting Poverty and Visit the Impoverished”. The publicity effort, however, has led to questions of its authenticity.

An attempt to demonstrate the government’s care for the poor, the article reported a visit on the afternoon of 19 August by Li Jinlin, secretary of Pingxiang’s Party Working Committee, to inspect the work on fighting poverty at the village level. Allegations of the visit being a stunt were made as photos in the article show Li and other officials talking to what are supposedly poor people at two luxuriously furnished houses in Tianzhong Village. The residences came with marble flooring and a spacious living room equipped with a large sofa and a matching coffee table. A netizen in China commented that “this poor man’s sofa is even larger than mine”.

The article has been taken down after the argument appeared, but the images are still going viral online. The government responded by asking netizens “not to determine whether a family is poor from how well its home is furnished”.

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Source: Apple Daily Taiwan #Aug23

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