China's Internet abuzz about presidential taxi ride that wasn't

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China's Internet abuzz about presidential taxi ride that wasn't

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/taxi-taxi-chinas-internet-abuzz-presidential-fare-093115844.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ad0T9fHh68rgEP41Dq883g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-04-18T093115Z_1_CBRE93H0QGF00_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-FRANCE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing" align="left" title="Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing" border="0" /></a>BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Internet was abuzz on Thursday over a report that President Xi Jinping, who is striving to portray himself as a humble man, had hailed a cab in Beijing last month. The report was later dismissed by state media as being false. Many Chinese news portals, which had carried the story, removed it, including the website of the newspaper that wrote the original piece. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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