New home prices in Beijing rose by 3.3% from January 2012 and are up 1.6% from December levels.

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April property prices in Beijing for example rose 1.8% from March.

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In domestic news, air pollution readings rose in Beijing last night despite fewer fireworks celebrations and improved weather conditions earlier in the week, The Beijing News reports.

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On Friday, Beijing announced that the consumer price index rose 6.1% in September, down from the 6.2% increase in the previous month and a 6.5% jump in July.

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But as investors returned after a three-session holiday, China's Shanghai Composite rose 1.7% after Beijing raised the amount foreigners would be allowed to invest in financial markets.

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Property transactions by floor space in some major cities, such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing rose in May from a year earlier, according to statistics from data provider China Real Estate Information Corp.

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The company, headquartered in Baoding, an industrial city southwest of Beijing, said SUV sales in the first three months of the year rose 95 percent over a year earlier and accounted for half the 180, 000 vehicles it sold.

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Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 23, 134.51 after the Chinese government issued a report showing that inflation rose slightly in April, which could temper any stimulus response by Beijing to China's shaky economic recovery.

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Rose wants to get involved with larger, more complicated international shipments: delivering the staging for the Beijing Olympics, helping set up satellite-receiver stations in remote locations or moving entire factories.

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