{
  "id": 10834588,
  "title": "China warns officials, fires kindergarten principal over ‘mops in cooking pots’ scandal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/china-warns-officials-fires-kindergarten-principal-over-mops-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T02:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3369151/china-warns-officials-fires-kindergarten-principal-over-mops-cooking-pots-scandal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Local Chinese authorities have issued warnings and demerits to 11 officials and dismissed the entire kitchen staff at a kindergarten following a teacher’s revelation about unsanitary practices, including washing dirty mops in cooking pots. On June 30, several children at the Affiliated Kindergarten of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in Jiangsu province exhibited symptoms…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}