Japan still has a higher suicide rate (per capita) among young people. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US didn’t have a large one either. Why not go after the Russian federation (who probably has the highest)?
If you are upset at china for civil liberties issues, then this is probably more important:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/10/content_5072495.htm
entitled:
“Xinhua issues Measures for Administering the Release of News and Information in China by Foreign News Agencies”
you are right: it’s disgusting. if you’ve got info on the russians, you can post it. i don’t go searching for this stuff, but sometime just find it trawling. if of no interest to you, please disregard. too easy.
BEIJING, Sept 20, 2006 (AFP) - Beijing’s authorities are scratching their heads about how to deal with a million construction workers whose services will no longer be required from the end of next year.
[SOLUTION IS SIMPLE: JUST EXECUTE ALL OF THEM AND HARVEST THEIR VITAL ORGANS AS NORMAL. THERE YOU GO - ALWAYS A SOUND BUSINESS SOLUTION TO ANY PROBLEM. kk ]
The city is on a frenzied 40-billion-dollar spending spree ahead of the Olympics to build new sports venues, roads, railways, metro lines and an airport terminal. High-rise homes and commercial tower blocks are sprouting like mushrooms.
Most of the heavy lifting is being done by some one million migrant construction workers from rural China, who have been lured to the capital to escape poverty.
But the government has decreed that all work must stop by the end of 2007 so that the dust can settle in the notoriously polluted city in time for the Olympics’ opening ceremony on August 8, 2008.
That means the one million or more workers will be surplus to requirements.
``We are building this city with our sweat,’’ one of them said. He identified himself only by his family name, Zhang, because he was afraid of losing his job.
But grubby peasants with wiry frames and skin several shades darker than city folk are not part of the image of the capital that China’s communist authorities want to project.
They are considering shipping the builders out of the city for the duration of the Olympics and virtually sealing Beijing off to new migrant workers, according to media reports last week.
Those reports were denied by the city government through the official Xinhua news agency.
``There are no plans for making any laws or decisions to force migrant workers out of Beijing during the Olympic Games,’’ said Zhou Jidong from the Beijing 2008 Environmental Construction Headquarters. It has been tasked with finding a solution to the migrant worker problem.
Experts nonetheless said it was clear that Beijing wanted rid of the migrants.
``I am completely certain that the government will find a way of ensuring that migrants who are temporary residents in the city and who are not clearly necessary will be moved out,’’ said Robin Munro, the research director for the Hong Kong-based China Laborer Bulletin, which monitors labor rights abuses.
When Beijing staged the Asian Games in 1990, hordes of workers brought to the city to build stadiums were expelled, he said.
Now an estimated four million migrant workers are back in the Chinese capital. Overall some 200 million impoverished peasants have fled the countryside in search of jobs in China’s cities.
Most leave their families behind and intend to return after saving enough money to escape poverty.
In recent years police have lost powers that allowed them to sweep the streets and lock away ``undesirables’’ in detention centers for months without due process.
Those powers were used to deprive several million people a year of their freedom, most of them migrant workers, according to advocacy group Human Rights in China.
But police still have the power to repatriate jobless migrants who have no legal status in Beijing because they have no residency rights.
Zhang, who left his wife and 15-year-old boy near Chengde in Hebei province, just north of Beijing, said he had heard that the authorities planned to expel workers like him.
``If migrant workers are kicked out of Beijing it will be very hard on them,’’ he said.
Conditions in the capital are notoriously bad for the migrants, who inhabit a parallel universe compared with Beijing’s richer residents.
Many live in tent cities on the fringes of the capital or in makeshift dormitories erected on the building sites where they work.
China is still a poor country so we don't complain much,'' said Zhang. This is not the west, we are not rich like America or Europe.’’
Zhang earns 1,200 yuan (150 dollars) a month as a construction worker, half of which he manages to save. That amounts to a king’s ransom in his home village near Chengde.
Ppl like you should keep their mouth closed.
Until you wont live under a dictatorial regime, anything you can emit are just theoretical platitudes, which where taught to you in a university class, many of them very remote of actual realties of life.
So please, consider keeping your mouth shut . Be happy you live in a place where you can buy your Wii, to waste time playing games.