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Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers the delayed autumn statement to parliament, announcing measures to stabilize the economy amid a cost of living crisis, including raising the National Living Wage from £9.50 an hour to £10.42 beginning next year, increasing pensions and welfare payments in line with rising inflation, introducing a higher rate windfall tax on the profits of energy firms, introducing a new "temporary tax" on companies that generate electricity, and capping rent increases in the social sector to 7% until 2024. 2022-11-17
A bus fire kills at least 35 people in China's Hunan Province. 2016-06-26
Police in China catch 175 looters who raided the Niuheliang Neolithic archaeological site in Manchuria. 2015-05-26
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
More than two million people are reported to have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. 2011-06-19
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
China launches its largest crackdown on dissenters in years, according to activists, amid unrest in the Middle East. 2011-03-31
Inflation in the People's Republic of China increases to 4.9 per cent. 2011-02-15
Fresh landslides and heavy rain in northwestern China leave at least 29 people dead and a further 10,500 trapped. 2010-08-13