Around the nation: Chinese pupils forced to exercise in rain to impress school inspectors
Also, parent lets child play naked outdoors in the winter to 'train his endurance' and filthy online messages by Sichuan official may cost him job
GUANGXI
Wet workout, media storm
Photos showing students at a middle school in Yulin being made to perform a group workout in the rain to impress inspectors have outraged internet users, China Youth Daily reports. Some people were particularly annoyed that the inspectors were shown holding an umbrella while the children were unprotected. Propaganda authorities claimed the umbrella was used to protect video equipment owned by a local TV station, and that the officials had visited the school "by accident".
The cost of bad driving
Civil servants in Nanning who commit traffic violations face demotions and pay cuts under a new local government regulation, Gxnews.com reports. A government employee said he was stunned after the city told him his two parking tickets meant a six-point deduction from his "government credit record". The 54-year-old man later found he had been disqualified from promotion for the next two years. He had also been left out of a salary rise granted to colleagues, the report said.