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Newspaper editor's bind not for SARS
( 2004-01-13 12:00) (China Daily)

A press officer with South China's Guangdong Province on Monday said that a person-in-charge of a local newspaper was questioned because one of its staff was involved in "a bribery case," rather than for other reasons as reported by some overseas media.

The officer from the provincial government's Information Office, whose name was not revealed, said that a person-in-charge of the Southern Metropolitan Daily (Nanfang Dushi Bao) had been questioned by the local Guangzhou People's Procuratorate.

Meanwhile, the staff allegedly involved in a bribery case, surnamed Yu, had already been under surveillance of residence since the end of last year. The case is still under investigation.

"The other reasons as speculated by some overseas media why the person-in-charge was questioned were groundless," said the press officer.

The AFP reported on January 2 that a reporter and a duty news editor had been investigated for the in-depth report of a new SARS case found in Guangzhou, from where the deadly lung disease spread across the country last spring.

A new SARS case was spotted in the city at the end of last year, followed by two suspected cases so far. With millions expected to take to the road for the upcoming Spring Festival, the latest SARS cases have caused concern among the Chinese who still have a fresh memory of what happened a year ago.

China was the country worst affected by the SARS epidemic last year, with 5,327 people infected and 349 killed.

 
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