MONDAY It is reported that a McDonald's burger has been cooked and sold in New Delhi for the first time. Indian nationalists are furious.
It is reported that an 18-year-old girl has been roasted alive on her husband's funeral pyre. Indian nationalists make no comment.
The mainland authorities erupt in fury after learning dissident Wang Dan has enrolled for a correspondence course at a disreputable running-dog 'school' called the University of California at Berkeley.
Meanwhile, at a Guilin university, one of China's many top-class educational establishments, a doctor reportedly plugs himself into a 220-volt live current as a gimmick to sell quack medicines.
An amateur hoaxer phones the Hong Kong police and claims to be a Japanese cult member, momentarily forgetting that Putonghua is not the language of that nation. He threatens to release noxious gases on the MTR the following day.
The news of a threat on the MTR reaches the Hong Kong press, many of whom decide to take it seriously and splash warnings on their pages the following morning.
