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China will enhance regulating its property market in 2011 and strengthen implementation of the tightening measures already unveiled by the government, a senior official said Wednesday. Jiang Weixin, minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said at a national work conference that China would clamp down on speculative home purchases and curb excessive growth in property [...]

Amid the backdrop of the rising Brazilian currency, the real, against the yuan, Brazil increased tariffs on toy imports from China by 15 percent on Wednesday. It’s the third time in eight days that the South American nation has launched a trade-remedy case against Chinese imports. The measure aims to help Brazilian toy manufacturers gain [...]

Price stability should always be the main target of China’s monetary policy, a central bank official said Wednesday. Sheng Songcheng, director of the Financial Survey and Statistics Department of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), wrote in a statement posted on the website of the PBOC, saying that the central bank may place more emphasis [...]