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Tainted Japanese products being sold in GD

Wednesday(Mar. 15th) was World Consumer Rights Day and to mark the day China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast an annual program revealing shady cases and scams that violate consumer rights. This year, they included the online sale on some cross-border e-commerce platforms of imported Japanese food from radioactive areas, discovered by the Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration in September of 2016. The possibly radioactive products include milkpowder, cereal, rice and wine. It is estimated that there are over 13,000 online stores selling food from nuclear polluted areas.

Muji, a Japanese grocery store brand in Shenzhen was also caught by Local authorities selling food from polluted areas in Japan. The true places of origin were covered by Chinese labels simply stating Japan as the country of origin. The same labelling was found on rice in an AEON supermarket and Shenzhen is conducting a large-scale crackdown/cleanup campaign against the tainted food. 

Bilingual Foshan police officer goes viral

A video went viral on Wechat moments among Foshan residents on Tuesday afternoon (Mar.14). In the video a Foshan policeman is seen talking to a foreigner in fluent English introducing some of Foshan's famous scenic spots.

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The Foshan Chancheng district Public Security official Weibo, a twitter-like blog, updated a new post on Wednesday night about the unidentified policeman in the video. Named Liu Yuxing, he is an auxiliary police from Chancheng district's Tongji public station.

Attempts to save whale abandoned

It seems the recent attempts to save a stranded sperm whale were in vain as rescuers have decided to halt rescue efforts after the whale was unable to make it back to deeper waters. According to rescuers, the whale also has a severe injury to its tail. Rescuers also declined the option to euthanise the animal.

Hydrogen tram for Foshan

Guangdong's Foshan city will be the first in China to operate a hydrogen powered tram network. The first line will be in operation by 2018 and the trams will be able to travel at speeds of up to 70km/h with only water as emissions.

HZMB bridge one step closer to completion

232 workers began to cast the concrete for the final closure joint to be used in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) immersed tunnel recently at a prefabrication factory. Completion of the joint means the tunnel is one step closer to being fully connected when it is submerged next month. 

Written & edited by Hazza & Michelle 

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