India, Jan. 24 -- A woman in central China has been ordered by a court to publicly apologise to her cheating husband after her sarcastic social media posts about his affair were ruled to have damaged his reputation, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.

The woman, Niu Na, from Henan province, revealed online that she had been married to her husband, Gao Fei, for more than a decade and that the couple share a daughter. Niu claimed she discovered that Gao, a team leader at a local coal mining company, had been involved in an affair with a married colleague, surnamed Han, for five years.

According to Niu, during the affair Gao used the couple's joint assets to buy his mistress gold, cosmetics and clothing. Outraged by the ...