In life there are two great property purchases, one as vital as the other. While uninterrupted growth in housing prices has cast a pall on today's cost of living, many now believe the same applies for the cost of death

"BSG" is an acronym for the Chinese metropolises Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, where white collar workers toil through the treachery of traffic congestion, growing workloads and the specter of increasingly obscene property prices.

Real estate prices in Hainan were slung skyward in January, only to plummet a month later.

Preliminary inquiries show Nan was suspected of taking bribes, manipulating referees, and match-fixing