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A Look at China and Hong Kong

Last week,China's National Bureau of Statistics released the welcome news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-on-year rate of inflation to October 2011 had fallen to 5.5 per cent, markedly down from September's 6.1 per cent. The CPI had peaked at 6.5 per cent in July 2011.
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Eurozone Crisis: What Will the New Order Look Like?

In an interview with International Business Times, Tory Peer and former shadow treasury secretary Lord Flight described the current EU model as corrupt. He offered three possible scenarios for a New Order.
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New Sarkozy-Obama Exchange: Papandreou is 'Crazy and Depressed'

In another overheard exchange with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit two weeks ago, Franch President Nicholas Sarkozy allegedly described Greek minister George Papandreou as 'crazy' and 'depressed', according to French newspaper Le Parisien. The conversation hit the headlines when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "liar"