Princess starts semester with 19 suitcases - and two guides (September 8, 2009, Shanghai Daily)
A university freshman from an apparently wealthy family has stunned her fellow students by bringing along 19 suitcases to the campus plus two professional tourist guides. Her actions have sparked online discussion about luxuries enjoyed by wealthy families, a report said in today's Xinmin Evening News. The student's parents drove a luxury limousine to send her to college in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, to register for the new semester on September 2, the report said. The family is from east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the girl's tutor.

Suicide remains top killer of young Chinese (September 4, 2009, Shanghai Daily)
Suicide remains the top killer of young Chinese aged between 15 and 34, according to a Beijing health official. China reports a high suicide rate with 2.25 million people attempting to commit suicide every year. About 250,000 are successful, said Deng Xiaohong, vice director of Beijing Health Bureau, citing research by China Diseases Prevention and Control center and Huilongguan Hospital. Deng made his remarks yesterday to coincide with the 7th World Suicide Prevention Day, today's Chongqing Evening News reported. The research found suicide is the fifth-largest cause of death in China. For every 100,000 people, 22.23 had tried to commit suicide.

Student suicide survey shock (September 11, 2009, Shanghai Daily)
Almost one in four students has thought of suicide, according to a survey released yesterday at a seminar in Yangpu District to mark the seventh World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide has becoming the prime cause of death among 15 to 34-year-olds with students accounting for a large proportion of the total, experts said. The thought of killing themselves had occurred to about 24.39 percent students while 15.23 percent had taken suicide into serious consideration, according to the study by the Children's Hospital of Fudan University and local education authorities. Of the 2,500-plus students questioned, 2.85 percent had planned how to commit suicide and 1.71 percent students had tried but failed.

Confucian family tree branches out (September 24, 2009, Xinhua)
CHINA celebrated the completion of the first full revision of its philosopher Confucius' family tree in 72 years at his birthplace Qufu City, east China's Shandong Province yesterday, three days before his "2,560th birthday." Kong Deyong, a 77th-generation descendant of the revered Chinese philosopher, disclosed the family tree covered with red silk at 9am. The family tree has 43,000 pages and is bound in 80 books. It records all 83 generations of Confucius' offspring of more than 2 million people and is believed to be the biggest in the world, Kong said. The new list, which includes minorities, overseas and female descendants for the first time, added more than 1.4 million names than the previous revision in 1937, said Kong Dewei, head of the family tree editorial office.

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