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Eleven Chinese reporters punished for receiving cash

Eleven Chinese journalists have been punished for taking bribes while reporting the mine explosion accident in northwest China's Shanxi Province in June.

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Eleven Chinese journalists have been punished for taking bribes while reporting the mine explosion accident in northwest China's Shanxi Province in June.

Local officials and mine owners gave cash and gold ingots to the journalists to hide the explosion, which killed 38 people. The bribery involved was worth some 110,000 thousand yuan, or a little less than 14 thousand US dollars.

Four of the journalists are from China's Xinhua News Agency, and one was fired.

The rest of the journalists work for local newspapers and have not yet received their punishment. (CRI)

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