Sri Lanka, March 31 -- Chinese authorities have banned entombing cremated remains in cheap apartments, a practice that had gained popularity as mourners took advantage of the subdued housing market to dodge rising funeral costs.
"Bone-ash apartments" are units in often barely occupied residential complexes used by some families as resting places for their loved ones' remains.
They can be cheaper than a public cemetery plot, according to local media, as well as giving families more control over the site.
Acquiring one "kills two birds with one stone", Carsten Herrmann-Pillath from Germany's Erfurt University told AFP.
"It's an investment and eases the (process of carrying out) ritual practices." But regulations that came into force on Mo...