NEWSPAPER

What is “Aomaba”?

A) An amoeba.

B) A Japanese city.

C) A new gulf in Thailand — Ao Maba (Maba Gulf).

D) Barack Obama. Apparently. Chinese newspaper Xinhua mistakenly printed the headline, “Xi Jinping Meets with US President Aomaba” became a joke among Chinese netizens. As fellow journalists, we won’t make fun of you, Xinhua. Not in public, anyway.