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...unions say that since the start of the year, food prices have risen 7.9%, electricity 20%, gas 50% and coal for heating 59%. The consumer price inflation rose 5.46% year-on-year in September. They say the government is still offering businesses "expensive gifts" like tax relief to foreign investors, but it has done nothing to relieve creeping living prices. Union demands include for higher minimum wages, a VAT cut on energy bills, and lower income taxes...
...every medium imaginable), and then, of course, there is the work of Zhang Xiaogang whose black-and-white paintings of 1950s era Chinese families have sold for upwards of US$2 million at auction. While these men are undoubtably the blue chip artists of today, they have not risen to the top without critical dissent...
...train.Unfortunately, the fairground ride was already slowing down. It pulled to a stop a good foot and a half before the man’s twitching form.After craning his neck to judge the damage outisde, the engineer shook his head disgustedly and spat out the miniature window.Felicity had already risen from her seat in distress. Ollie rushed to her side.“Mamma mia!” he said, feeling shocked himself. “Dat manna try to kill himself! Oh my God!”“What a terrible tragedy!” she said...
...risen to the top of the contemporary art world - in April, he broke a record for a mainland Chinese painting when one of his works fetched $8.2 on auction. His subject matter deals invariably with the consequences of modernity, depicting the forgotten faces of peasants in the Tibetan desert, or families displaced by the rising waters of the massive Three Gorges damn project. He's also done portraits of prostitutes in Thailand, and high school students in Boston. Says Morgan Morris, the Rome-based curator of this latest project: "Every time there's something coming to a head, he captures...
...tropical ocean temperatures have risen by about 0.5 degree C since 1970, which could explain the more powerful storms. The Nature researchers estimate that every 1 degree C increase in sea-surface temperature would result in a 31% increase in the global frequency of category 4 and 5 storms. Given that computer models indicate that ocean temperatures could rise by up to 2 degrees C by 2100, those are scary calculations. It's especially worrying because the most intense storms do the most damage by far - several minor storms can equal the damage of a single severe hurricane. "The category...