Beijing man held over online stock suicide rumour

BEIJING: Police in Beijing have detained a man for allegedly spreading a rumour online that a person jumped to his death in the city’s financial district due to China’s precarious stock markets, police said yesterday, underscoring growing jitters amid a three-week long sell-off. The 29-year-old man detained was identified only by the surname Tian, and is a manager at a technology and science company in Beijing, police said in a post on their official microblog. — AFP