BEIJING / WAM China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 0.3 percent month on month in January 2024, official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. According to China Central Television, January witnessed the second consecutive month of growth, with an expansion of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous month. Notably, urban ...

BEIJING / WAM China’s vehicle sales surged 47.9 percent year on year in January 2024 to nearly 2.44 million units, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Xinhua News Agency quoted the association as saying that the country’s vehicle output last month increased by 51.2 percent year on year to 2.41 million units. Specifically, passenger car output and sales ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, attended a part of the 25th UAE President’s Endurance Cup race, which was held in the Emirates International Endurance village in Al Wathba. The race began at 06:30 with the participation of 159 elite male and female ...