It sounds like a fairy tale. Yang Huiyan, a 25-year-old woman, has virtually overnight become the richest person in China, with a net worth of about US$9 billion, Forbes reported on Tuesday.

One out of every five adults in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, suffers from mental problems, according to a government-sponsored survey.

Ben Arent came up with this system called the energy tree that helps you monitors your recycling habits.

An environmental consulting firm and other developers here have come up with a non-perishable food pack that creates steaming hot rice with the simple addition of cold water.

The images this week are quite unusual.  Yes, we normally have crazy stuff, but this set goes the extra mile.

Scott Horton:  I wrote earlier that Richard Stengel was busily emptying Time magazine of its news content and filling it with opinion blather. About a week later I was contacted in quick succession by two Time staffers, one an editor. My assessment, one said, was “truer than you will ever guess. A lot of folks [...]

Not like homelessness is a good thing at all or anywhere, but if you’re going to do it anywhere, Japan’s the place. Rather than using cardboard boxes, it’s standard to make a home out of a wooden frame, and cover it with tarpet to make it waterproof. (w/pic)

Seth Godin:  Marketing, I think, can be divided into two eras. The first, the biggest, the baddest and the most impressive was the era in which marketers were able to reach the unreachable. Ads could be used to interrupt people who weren’t intending to hear from you.

Clothing manufacturers are catering to increasingly obese children by making school uniforms as big as size 30.

Worth 1000 is a brilliantly run operation.  In this competition they were asking some of the world’s top image-creators to take a crack at the topic of "burning things".  Some amazing images.