Here's an interesting report on suicides in China. I'm struck most by how the solution to plainly economic problems is deemed to be psychiatry. But I'm also concerned that in this story, one never really gets a sense of where anything is, as if 'rural China' were one, large and undifferentiated lump. It's a feature of reporting on China in general that very few place names make it into the bulk of the text...

Rural China's suicide problem
By Daniel Griffiths
BBC News, Beijing

China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. And the problem is most acute in poor rural areas. ... read more »

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Posted on 4 June, 2007 - 18:22

In China, a supermarket has introduced a brand new, whizzbang up to the minute supermarket format – one in which shoppers sit in an electric rollercoaster car and are whizzed around the store, slowing to pluck goodies from the aisles.

As the commentator notes at the end of this wee clip, the only disadvantage is that if you miss something, you’ll need to do the whole thing all over again. ... read more »

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Posted on 30 November, 2006 - 22:17