Phone owner unware what he said 'wrong'

GUANGZHOU: After sending one "bad" text message, Xie Shaobin could not send or receive messages for a week on his cell phone.

"My message function has been suspended by the phone company since Jan 13 because my phone sent one 'bad message'," Xie told China Daily yesterday. "My work and my life have been seriously affected," he said.

Xie is an engineer in a toy factory in Dongguan in the prosperous Pearl River Delta, which borders Hong Kong and Macao.