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Quirky China: A pool in hot water, Traditional Chinese Medicine to keep people awake and throwing a bathtub from height
- The indoor pool asked residents of a flood hit city why they were not learning to swim
- The man threw the bathtub from height because he could not be bothered to carry it
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Alice Yanin Shanghai
This week in China, a herbal drink targeting night owls is receiving hundreds of thousands of articles online, a man throws a bathtub from height out of laziness, and a pool gets in trouble for using China’s recent flooding disaster in an advertisement to “teach people how to swim.”
Swimming pool in hot water for using flood to promote services
An indoor swimming pool in the city of Hebi was fined 200,000 yuan (US$31,000) for using the severe flooding in central China to advertise itself as a place to learn how to swim.
“Hebi is inundated. Aren’t you going to learn how to swim?” read the advertisement posted on WeChat last week.
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Hebi is one of the most seriously wrecked cities in Henan during last week’s flooding disaster that left 99 people dead as of Thursday.
In Hebi, hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the flood, and one-third of the rural population was displaced.
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The municipal market authority said the swimming centre had violated the law since the content of its ad used the disaster for its marketing.
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