Chinese Reporter Confesses to Libeling Company for Money

A Chinese business journalist who exposed alleged financial wrongdoing at a state-owned company has confessed to writing false stories in exchange for money. Chen Yongzhou, with the New Express newspaper based in the southern city of Guangzhou, was arrested late last week for allegedly "damaging the reputation of a business," after he wrote a series of reports on the finances of the Zoomlion construction equipment company. The Hunan provincial government owns about one-sixth of the ...

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