Global Times adds that street vendors have been arrested for selling paper models of the iPhone 5 as part of an environmental clean-up campaign against burning paper ancestral offerings for the upcoming Tomb-Sweeping Festival in early April.

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The government has mooted reforms that would reduce May Day observance to a single day and distribute the rest over a series of one-day holidays for the traditional Tomb Sweeping day, Dragon Boat festival and Mid-Autumn festival.

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