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Beijing

Gift cakes out, watchdog warns

High-priced moon cakes are prohibited as gifts for officials during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Sept 27 this year, according to a notice issued by the Information Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft watchdog. The commission solicited help from the media nationwide to perform a watchdog role, detecting and publicizing breaches of austerity rules.