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China grapples with legacy of its 'missing girls': China is asking where all the girls have gone. And the sobering answer is that this vast nation, now the world's fastest-growing economy, is confronting a self-perpetuated demographic disaster that some experts describe as "gendercide" -- the phenomenom caused by millions of families resorting to abortion and infanticide to make sure their one child was a boy.

One Billion Couch Potatoes: Chairman Mao's portrait still decorates many households in Yaoli, a former communist guerilla base in China's Jiangxi province. But what mesmerizes the people these days is television.

Females Suicides Happen Most Often in Villages: Gu Xiulian, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and chairperson of the All-China Women's Federation, said this morning that both the Chinese government and ordinary people consider the issue of females suicide to be extremely important and governments have instituted a series of measures.

Shanghai Divorce Rate Goes Up: According to reports of Shanghai's media, a survey of the city's 19 district marriage registration bureaus revealed that last year, 27,374 couples registered for divorces, averaging 75 couples per day, up 38.9 percent over the previous year.