On 24 November 1932, "Le Petit Vingtième" published a fictional interview between Jamin and Tintin in which the reporter announced that he would be travelling to China via Egypt, India, Ceylon, and Indochina. Later on 8 December, the story began serialisation in the supplement under the title of "The Adventures of Tintin, Reporter, in the Orient". As the story began in Egypt rather than China, Hergé briefly renamed the story to "The Cairo Affair". The story was not following any plan or pre-written plot, with Hergé as usual devising the story on a week-by-week basis.