The Daily Telegraph

The world is coming, and the Beijing authorities are worried about the teenage son’s smelly socks. And The Daily Telegraph explains they couldn’t be more literal: “Men... get more basic advice, including not sporting pyjamas in public, not going out with a bare chest and not rolling up their trouser legs”. There are fashion tips for women and dos and don’ts of right etiquette, but that’s not all. Instruction, imparted by the Capital Spiritual Civilisation Construction Commission, as the newspaper says, are a little, well, instructive. “Rules are also already in place to try to control taxi drivers’ bad breath. They have been ordered to cut down on their garlic consumption and watch what they eat for breakfast.”

Sydney Morning Herald

The Australian daily latches on to the latest fad among Chinese internet users. “When a Chinese blogger says ‘I’m just doing push-ups’, it’s actually a roundabout about way of attacking the regime,” we’re told. The term came up after the recent controversy surrounding the alleged rape and murder of a teenaged girl by relatives of communist party officials. The unproved allegations have given the people “... euphemisms to evade the cyber spies and skirt the automated keyword blocking tools which the Chinese authorities use to keep tabs on the online world.”