Awkward questions

Chinese journalists in Beijing are questioning the Communist Party of China's "official truth", the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reports: "At the State Council's press conference, two journalists from the China Daily and Sichuan Daily newspapers asked awkward questions: firstly, why houses, hospitals and schools but not government building collapsed. Secondly, a rumour is circulating that the province's earthquake authorities predicted the disaster but the alarm was not raised for fear of destroying the euphoria in the run-up to the Olympic Games. ... What is the truth? New information channels must be opened."

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