Through the new MDG-F programme, UNESCO's Office in Beijing expects to increase at least by 10% the number of newspaper articles in the target areas, promoting public understanding of good diet practices and the right to adequate food.

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The Shenzhen-based developer also expects Beijing's tightening measures to continue in the current half of this year, Vanke President Yu Liang told a news conference.

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However, Mr. Rothman expects officials in Beijing to start allowing their local counterparts to relax housing enforcements in the second quarter.

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In a report released in Beijing on Wednesday, the World Bank says it expects the Eurozone will post no growth at all in 2012 and overall developed markets, which at this point just includes Japan and the U.S. in a stumbling potato sack race, growing at just 1.4%.

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Beijing Ben Ao An Da Automobile Driving Service, which hires out chauffeurs, said it expects to boost sales by about 60 percent this year as a result of the tougher law, which went into effect on May 1.

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At Beijing four years ago, the ratio was more than 42% -- and the IOC expects that to increase again.

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Moreover, McKinsey says it expects that the new middle class among them will not only be living in Shanghai and Beijing.

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Cheung also expects Chinese property prices to resume their upward climb later this year, barring further efforts by Beijing to cool down that sector.

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