内容摘要：A candidate who had been due to stand in a council election escaped jail by the "skin of his teeth" after defrauding a charity out of £28,000.

A candidate who had been due to stand in a council election escaped jail by the "skin of his teeth" after defrauding a charity out of £28,000.

The following day, with financial markets closed on the mainland, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong rose by over 6%."Investors loved the announcements", China analyst, Bill Bishop said.

While investors may have been popping champagne corks, Xi has deeper issues to tackle.The People's Republic marking its 75th anniversary means it has been in existence longer than the only other major communist state, the Soviet Union, which collapsed 74 years after it was founded."Avoiding the fate of the Soviet Union has long been a key concern for China's leaders," said Alfred Wu, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

At the forefront of officials' minds will be boosting confidence in the broader economy amid growing concerns that it may missits own 5% annual growth target.

"In China targets must be met, by any means necessary," said Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University.

"The leadership worries that failing to meet them in 2024 will worsen a downward spiral of slow growth and low confidence."These give a completely different result - Labour 10 points behind both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. With regards to what is printed on the Labour leaflet, he says he is “very confused about the basis for that claim, and I follow these things quite closely”.

Labour pointed to an entirely different model run by an independent software developer based on a universal swing across the country. That did show the party ahead in Eastleigh.It just goes to show there are lots of different possible numbers you can point to to support a message of tactical voting - and parties will pick whichever suits them.

So voters be warned: if you’re looking for the perfect chart, you can’t win here.When US President Donald Trump hit China with tariffs in his first term, Vietnamese entrepreneur Hao Le saw an opportunity.