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The National Bureau of Statistics said retail sales grew 3.2% from a year ago, better than the 2.5% growth projected by analysts in an LSEG poll. That was also a faster clip than last month’s 2.1% growth rate.



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China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday reported third-quarter GDP growth of 4.6% year on year, exceeding the 4.5% expected by economists polled by Reuters.



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Japan racked up a trade deficit of 294.3 billion yen ($2 billion) in September, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday, as exports fell to key destinations like China.

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Israel has stopped processing requests from traders to import food to Gaza, according to 12 people involved in the trade, choking off a track that for the past six months supplied more than half of the besieged Palestinian territory’s provisions.

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 A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was convicted Thursday of fraudulently obtaining property worth billions of dollars and sentenced to life in prison, in a case that has been a centerpiece of the government’s crackdown on corruption. Truong My Lan was already convicted in April by the same Ho Chi Minh City court of fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s gross domestic product — in a separate case and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

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Vietnamese real estate tycoon found guilty of billions in fraud in government graft crackdown

China has announced it will expand the amount of financing available for housing projects on a “white list” to 4 trillion yuan ($562 billion), seeking to reverse a slump in the property industry. 


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Workers of Samsung Electronics' Indian unit have decided to end a strike at its factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the company said on Tuesday, bringing to an end a labour protest that continued for more than a month.



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A striking UN Development Program report published Thursday revealed that more than one billion people worldwide are living in acute poverty. It also found that children account for more than half of those affected, and that poverty rates are three times higher in countries at war.  

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UN report says 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty worldwide

British foreign secretary David Lammy will visit China on a two-day visit starting on Friday in a bid to improve relations between the two countries after years of tensions over security concerns and alleged human rights abuses.


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UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to visit China in an attempt to reset frosty relations

As tensions escalate between India and Canada, some in the Indian diaspora say they’re concerned about how the situation might affect travel between the two countries.



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