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A report from Bloomberg*:

The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong apologized on its front page for the incorrect use of Chinese characters for the name of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

“The South China Morning Post sincerely apologizes for the Chinese name translation error for President Hu Jintao in yesterday’s newspaper,” the entire correction said.

Instead of the Chinese characters for Hu’s name, the English-language Post printed the characters for “Hu Jia,” which is the same name of a prominent mainland activist serving a three-and-a-half year jail term for subversion, Radio Television Hong Kong said on its Web site …

Thanks, Steve and Bonny!

Correction April 20, 2010: This post originally and incorrectly called Bloomberg “Blomberg.” It has been corrected. Thanks, Daniel!

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