The United Nation's recently-released World Happiness Report (PDF) listed China as the 112th happiest country out of 156 countries. A number of China-based news websites re-posted the report, the first of which was Xinhua.net.
The Ministry of Truth was not happy: publishing the report, or any references to it, is now banned in China.
More: China Digital Times (CDT). (via @rmack)
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