Friday, February 13, 2009

Ooops!

Most of the Chinese reports on this week's big fire in Beijing have centred on the fact that the bigwigs at CCTV have had to "make self-criticism" because the fire - in the complex which is to house the state TV station's new headquarters - was started by some "giant firecrackers" they'd decided to let off in celebration of the last day of the Chinese New Year holiday without permission.

I wasn't aware that there was an Outsized Fireworks Licensing Authority, but there you go. "You live and learn," as they say in the gulags.

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