The United Nations said that due to the deepening financial crisis next year 1 billion peoples would go hungry
BEIJING, on Dec. 29th, according to Xinhua in Hong Kong, “Wen Wei Po” on 29th quoted foreign reports, although Western countries promised to take measures to help solve the problem of hunger, the global number of hungry people was still growing at an alarming rate. A few days ago the United Nations said that with the deepening financial crisis, next year would be the first time in human history up to 10 million people suffer from hunger because of food shortage.
Beijing University funds in the crisis-affected and school principal said to do a good job in saving
Yesterday, Beijing University’s China strategy Center held “the financial crisis, expanding domestic demand and China’s economic strategy forum”, and the president of Peking University, Zhou Qifeng, Academy of Sciences said after his office he participated in the first meeting of large-scale fund-raising meeting, but the enterprises who sponsored themselves also had difficulties. “Who had pledged to contribute to the Beijing University, the enterprises said they would abide by the commitment, but it would take time.”
Nearly 90 percent of UK consumers planed to cut spending in the new year
Xinhua in London on December 28th, in Britain, “The Guardian” and the agency ICM poll published on the same day the survey, which showed that the British are about to enter the year in which year public to cut spending, no security of the work and continued economic recession, so the economic outlook was very bleak. This survey was conducted shortly before Christmas. The results showed that respondents were almost all pessimistic about the future of the British economy, and 86 percent of the respondents planed to cut spending next year.
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