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Hero lies to get medical coverage

Dongguan TimesJuly 23, 2008 Earlier this month, several newspapers reported on Yang Jun, a 23-year-old migrant worker in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, who heroically saved a woman from being kidnapped. It was reported that on the night of July 6, when... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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