Analysts think up to 300 billion dollars in mortgages might be linked to these stalled projects. That's about five percent of total mortgages in the country. Many other property developers have defaulted last year, and there's a fear that many more will do so soon.
Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banking scandal have been quashed. We ask about the instability still to come. Ukraine’s new HIMARS rocket launchers are proving exceedingly effective against Russian forces. And a look at Britain’s world-leading collection of diseases-in-a-dish.
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