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(2 Jul) - Singapore home prices rebounded to a record in the second quarter after developers sold more homes, a government report showed. The island state’s private residential property price index rose 0.4 percent to 206.8 points in the three months ended June 30 from the previous quarter, according to preliminary estimates... 

China's VP Xi Jinping The family of China's next president has amassed a fortune running into hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a Bloomberg News investigation. The disclosure comes as the Communist party faces increasingly difficult questions about how its leaders, who are paid ministerial salaries of just $12,700... 

So much for promises to employ British staff! Four in ten of the jobs created went to foreign workers Around 18,400 jobs out of 46,000 went to people abroad Costly: The Olympic Park was meant to give East London a skills legacy (Daily Mail, 1 Jul) - Almost half the workers employed to build the London 2012 Olympic Park were...