We begin this week's show with Beijing's decision to suspend former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai from the Politburo and to investigate his wife on murder charges. Mr Bo was once tipped as a future leader, and the government has clearly been nervous about how his removal will play with the public. With us in the studio is Jean-Pierre Cabestan of the Hong Kong Baptist University's Department of Government and International Studies. Around 40,000 people die in Hong Kong every year. Many of their families are finding it harder to pay for funeral parlour services. The operation of the one government-owned parlour has been awarded to a listed company called the South China Memorial Park and Funeral Service Ltd on a five-year contract. The contract, awarded by tender, cost $279 million. That startled funeral operators. It's close to fourteen times as much as the tender cost 10 years ago. The operators immediately increased the fees, and all the commercial funeral parlours have followed suit. The hike has affected many peripheral businesses. No one would call Hong Kong one of the worlds's greener cities. In fact it's a place that sometimes seems to equate conspicuous and even wasteful consumption with prosperity. But as landfills are getting filled, and refuse is continuing to pile up, the government and green groups are looking at new ways to handle solid waste, ranging from new charges, to an reward programme. Over the weekend, many local Facebook users were passing around images of a teenage schoolgirl who had gone missing. Her parents were worried, and said that the police had told them most stay out teenage girls turned up all right eventually. Well, this one did, having turned out to be just one of many who'd sometimes prefer to wander the streets than go home.