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The Netherlands statistics office reports that the country has entered a recession after the economy declined by 0.3% in the second quarter with exports and household spending falling despite rising interest rates that were intended to lower inflation. 2023-08-16
The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage point, to 3.75%, the highest rate since January 2008, amid surging inflation in the United States. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell warns that further rate increases are likely. 2022-11-2
A warehouse storing chemicals and fuel catches fire in the Chinese city of Jingjiang resulting in an unknown number of casualties. 2016-04-22
The President of South Korea Park Geun-hye arrives in the People's Republic of China for four days of talks with the President of China Xi Jinping in an effort to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula. 2013-06-27
Year-over-year GDP growth in the People's Republic of China slows to 9.1% for the third quarter of 2011, following government efforts to curb inflation. 2011-10-18
Chinese truck drivers stage a second day of protests in Shanghai at rising inflation. 2011-04-21
China raises its bank reserves requirements as an anti-inflation move, an increase of 50 basis points (half of a percent) effective April 21. 2011-04-17
Several people are charged after calling for Middle-East style protests in China. 2011-02-25
Inflation in the People's Republic of China increases to 4.9 per cent. 2011-02-15
Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case. 2010-08-19