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China official mocked for wearing gold earrings while crying about local flood disaster
A Chinese official who cried about her village’s flood disaster faced sarcastic comments for wearing gold earrings, but received majority online support. The floods in Hunan’s Shimen county caused six deaths, ten missing, and affected over 100,000 people.
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