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You Kai, the deputy director of the office where Li had worked since 2006, told police that Li had shifted from reporting agricultural topics to legal news two months before his death. Although his beat rarely involved investigative work, most of his reports sourced the procuratorate and judicial
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Li Xiang was a 30-year-old TV reporter who was always interested in reporting on criminal cases. Li had been following the story of restaurants illegally recycling cooking oil, a dangerous health hazard to diners. He blogged a lot about different ideas and thoughts on a site similar to
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was because of his interest in a "gutter" cooking oil scam, in which 32 people were caught; the last post on his microblog said web users "had complained that
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