Last week, a rare large scale demonstration sparked by depositors who'd lost money in a banking scandal turned violent. Now some are taking a less noisy, but potentia more damaging course of financial action - not paying their mortgages. It's enough to worry the chinese communist party. China sells most of its homes before they're actually built. About 90 % of homes were sold this way last year.
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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