Chinese toilets not worth squat

Reuter's reports that China has caved in to give Western visits the toilets they want.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing organizers are refitting the toilets at three main Olympic venues after complaints from foreign athletes about having to squat, an official said Wednesday.

Most toilets in China are still of the squat rather than sit-down variety, as spectators and competitors at recent test events in otherwise state of the art venues like the "Water Cube" aquatics center discovered.

"In my personal point of view, there are cultural differences between Chinese and Western people. Chinese are more used to squat toilets," said Yao Hui, a senior official responsible for the management of Olympic venues.

...Beijing has 5,200 public toilets, the Beijing Evening Post reported earlier this month, more than any city in the world. Yao said he believed that eventually, the majority of Chinese would use the sit-down variety of toilet, as people do in large parts of the developed world.

Westerners wouldn't stand for squat toilets. Chinese were willing to sit down and discuss the problem. Toilet problems don't run over. Next...