World Nation Life Foreign minister Xinjiang Risks from seeks better ties vagrant colored lenses Fashion accessories may with new country children cause damage to your eyesight. Visit highlights importance China attaches > PAGE 22 to cultivating friendship with South Sudan. get help CHINA> PAGE 11 DAILY > PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, August 10, 2011 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5 Infl ation reaches 3-yr high at 6.5% Turmoil in global fi nancial markets may delay further rate increases By LI XIANG rel on Tuesday on the New CHINA DAILY York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest level in more than BEIJING — China’s infla- eight months. tion rate hit a three-year high China’s Producer Price in July, posing challenges to Index (PPI), an economic policymakers amid turmoil in indicator of inflation at the the global fi nancial markets. wholesale level, jumped 7.5 Th e consumer price index percent year-on-year in July, (CPI), a key gauge of infla- according to the NBS. Ana- tion, rose 6.5 percent in July lysts said that falling com- year-on-year, driven mainly modities prices may help DYLAN MARTINEZ / REUTERS by soaring food prices which relieve imported infl ationary Looters fl ee from a clothes store in Peckham, London, on Monday. Rioting and looting spread across the British capital on Monday, and broke out in other cities, in climbed 14.8 percent from pressure. Britain’s worst unrest in decades. a year earlier, the “However, consumers may Inside National Bureau not benefi t quickly because Editorial, of Statistics (NBS) of the rigid domestic price- page 8 said on Tuesday. setting mechanism,” said Yao Riots turn parts of London into battleground Analysts said Wei, an economist for China that the higher-than-expect- at the French bank, Societe ed inflation figure poses Generale SA. Parliament recalled as police struggle the government’s emergency looted shops, set alight vehicles store in the main street of Hack- serious challenges to policy- Th e National Development committee. and buildings, and attacked ney. makers as escalating global and Reform Commission, to restore order after days of chaos More than 16,000 officers police officers in Croydon in Acting Scotland Yard Com- fi nancial turmoil complicates the country’s top economic will be on London’s streets on the southeast, Lewisham and missioner Tim Godwin, Brit- efforts to tackle domestic planner, brushed aside the By ZHANG HAIZHOU Prime Minister David Cam- Wednesday, he said. All police Peckham in the south, Camden ain’s most senior police offi cer, infl ation. possibility of any imminent CHINA DAILY eron, abruptly ended their holi- leave in London has been can- and Chalk Farm in the north, as called on parents and guardians Gloomy economic data cut in domestic retail fuel days and returned to London. celed. well as Ealing, a well-off area in to keep youngsters in at night- from the United States and prices despite the more than LONDON — Parts of the Parliament has been recalled Scotland Yard said that 525 west London. time and urged the public to Europe may delay further 10 percent drop in global British capital resembled a for an emergency session on people have been arrested in In Hackney, rioters, easily stay off London’s streets. interest rate hikes by the crude prices in the past week. battleground, with burnt-out Th ursday to debate the riots. London after three days of outnumbering police officers, “There are far too many People’s Bank of China until Economists forecast that buildings, scattered debris and Analysts urged London’s “unprecedented’’ rioting. smashed the windows of Lad- spectators who are getting in global fi nancial markets sta- the CPI will stay above 6 per- rampaging gangs, aft er a third Metropolitan police to “read- Cameron condemned what brokes, a betting shop, and bus- the way of the police operation bilize, they said. cent in the third quarter. night of rioting on Monday. just” planning for the Olympic he called the “sickening scenes es parked near Hackney Central to tackle criminal thuggery and “While there had been “This means that infla- A number of areas in the Brit- Games, due to start in less than of people looting, vandalizing, Station. burglary,” he said. strong expectations for tion, instead of an economic ish capital were hit by the riot- a year. thieving, robbing”. Th en rioters, wearing hooded In the tense atmosphere another rate hike early this slowdown, remains the major ing on Monday night, including “We will do everything Fresh riots erupted in Hack- tops, broke into a van and took media workers also became tar- month following the release risk,” Qu Hongbin, chief Peckham, Clapham, Hackney necessary to restore order to ney in north London on Mon- out wooden pallets to use them gets, with photographers and of the high inflation figure, economist for China and and Ealing. Violence had also Britain’s streets and make them day afternoon, after police as weapons to attack the police cameramen fending off rioters the probability for that has co-head of Asian economic spread to Birmingham, Bristol, safe for the law-abiding,” Cam- stopped and searched a man and smash shop windows. to protect their equipment. been lowered somewhat, research at HSBC, said. Liverpool and Nottingham. eron said in Downing Street but found nothing. Gangs also looted a Texaco with policymakers likely to Th e US may be poised to Politicians, including British on Tuesday aft er a meeting of Within a few hours, rioters petrol station and a Spar food SEE “RIOTS” PAGE 11 put the rate hike on hold until launch a third round of quan- the global macroeconomic titative easing in an attempt to outlook settles,” Alistair stimulate the economy. Two Thornton, an analyst with previous rounds lift ed com- IHS Global Insight, said in a modity prices, saw a surge of research note. speculative capital infl ow into Red Cross faces Investor confidence in a China and increased infla- global economic recovery tionary pressure. took a hard hit after inter- Premier Wen Jiabao urged credibility crisis national rating agency Stan- “relevant countries” on Tues- dard & Poor’s downgraded day to implement responsible Corruption scandal casts cloud over US credit rating from AAA monetary and fi scal policies to AA+. Global commodi- and reduce their defi cits. charity organization, Jiang Xueqing ties prices tumbled with oil prices falling below $80 a bar- SEE “PREMIER” PAGE 2 and Wang Yan report in Beijing. few days after the COVERSTORY 8.0-magnitude Wen- On chinadaily.com.cn Contacts chuan earthquake Inside: Red Cross questioned struck in May 2008, over luxury vehicles, page 5 Special: Veteran journalist passes away News A (86-10) 6491-8366 Li Wenyu donated money to on her micro blog to be the Bilingual News: Desperate Housewives the Red Cross Society of Chi- “commercial general manager” streaming to China Subscription (86) 400-699-0203 na. 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COVER STORY ................................................6 Lokor Logitel, a 3-year-old girl, receives attention at the tion on her online bank account. “Guo” later admitted that she COMMENT ..................................................8, 9 Th e Red Cross never told her had made it all up, but the dam- WORLD ......................................................10-12 Mukutano feeding center in a village northwest of Kenya’s BUSINESS ............................. 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 how the money was spent, she age was done. The Red Cross LIFE ........................................................... 19-22 capital, Nairobi, on Monday. Th e United Nations says that said, but she trusted the largest could only disavow any associa- SPORTS ...................................................23,24 about 3.6 million people are at risk of starvation in Somalia and emergency aid foundation in tion with her; it did not provide China — until late June. accounting data as evidence. © 2011 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 31 — No. 9757 12 million people are threatened by famine across the Horn of A woman calling herself 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际标准编号:ISSN0253-9543 邮发代号:1-3 Africa. See story on page 12, editorial on page 8. “Guo Meimei Baby” claimed SEE “CHARITY” PAGE 6 nationPAGE 2 | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011 CHINADAILY.COM.CN/NATION CHINA DAILY briefl y Premier: LIAONING Keeping the Yangtze clean China suff ers Call for cyber attacks By GUO RUI China suff ered about Zhou has come to realize that “you can CHINA DAILY global bid 493,000 cyber attacks last fi sh anything out of the water”. year, about half of which In the following years, he found anoth- originated from abroad, YICHANG, Hubei — It is a quiet and er two corpses and was able to take care particularly the United States peaceful morning at the Th ree Gorges of the situation calmly, informing the to ensure and India, according to a section of the Yangtze River. Th e surface local public security departments imme- recently issued computer security report. of the water is calm and mirror-like. Th in diately aft er each fi nd.