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Chinese business as a result of rising commodity prices
According to the official data agency, high commodity prices are putting pressure on Chinese businesses, although large sectors of the country’s industry have recovered from the initial effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to data released by the National Statistics Office on Thursday, a 57 per cent rise in profits of large industrial companies in April was a year earlier than the pandemic that benefited the sector’s low-base comparison in 2020. Earnings rose 92 percent in March.
The data show that there has been an “irregular” improvement in business performance in China, the NBS said, despite the broad economy recovery in the last year. Higher commodity prices have boosted profits for miners and other producers, but it also appears to increase costs for businesses down the river along the supply chain, the NBS added.
More than half of recipients of services for those experiencing domestic violence in 2019 were aged under 40, according to data published by the National Statistics Office on Thursday.
The NSO said 2,565 people used such services that year, 80.2% of whom were women.
Compared to 2016, the number of persons who in 2019 used services offered increased by 41.2%, from 1,816 to 2,565.
As in previous years, the services with the highest number of registered cases were the Domestic Violence Unit(DVU) within Aġenzija Appoġġ (1,870 cases) and the Police Department (1,532 cases).
The majority of service users were Maltese nationals.
More than 90% of cases registered by shelters, Victim Support Malta (VSM) and the DVU were from people experiencing psychological violence, as were 50.7% of cases registered with the police. A further 47.3% of cases filed with the police were of persons experiencing physical violence.
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