# Xin Hua is one weird news agency

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**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xin-hua-is-one-weird-news-agency/335755 "2005-12-15T18:00:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xin-hua-is-one-weird-news-agency/335755/1 "2005-12-15T18:00:35Z")

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Anyone here ever visit Xin Hua’s online news site. Their English one is [here](http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm).

The reason I mention it is that they have a realy tendency to have some unusual stories. For example, today they have have a story called [Why are the stars crying for?](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/15/content_3924961.htm) that has different pictures of celebrities crying followed by a description of what caused them to cry.

WTF?

Though Xin Hua is a real news agency, they often have collected pictorials of famous female celebrities, as if they are People Magazine. For example, they have collected Zhang Ziyi magazine covers [here](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/12/content_3909467.htm)

They also seem to be big fans of Maxim, frequently posting pictorials from it.

To say the least, this is not what I expect from a Chinese News agency.