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Chinese home prices rose for the second straight month in November, shaking off a year-long slump. Meg Teckman reports.
The Chinese property market showing signs of recovery with average new home prices rising for a third consecutive month, a contrast to other grim economic data released recently. Meg Teckman reports.
China's average new home prices fell at the fastest pace on record in February from a year earlier, raising concern about the health of the world's second-largest economy. Jane Lanhee Lee reports.
The US House of Representatives passes a bill that would force TikTok to divest from parent company ByteDance and another bill to counter China and provide aid to Taiwan. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in San Francisco next month for "constructive" talks, the White House says. "It's going to be in San Francisco, it is going to be a constructive meeting. The president is looking forward to it," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says of the long-awaited talks. SOUNDBITE
The first official budget figures since Britain voted to leave the EU show a smaller-than-expected budget surplus. As post-referendum data continues to trickle in, attention is turning to what sort of access Britain will seek with its main trading partners in the EU. Kirsty Basset reports.