In China, which accounts for 25 percent of all the world’s suicides, an average of 287,000 people—or one every 2 minutes—commit suicide every year, and 2,000,000 attempt suicide but are unsuccessful.
Several Chinese homeowners who were relocated after seeing their homes demolished for government projects were finally compensated by officials just days after one of their own bombed government offices in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province.