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China: Guarantee happiness

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report on the government manipulation of a happiness survey in a local town so as to achieve the state targets for improving the people's well-being. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Mon, Dec 29 2008

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