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After decades of breakneck economic expansion, China has announced it is cutting its growth target for the year ahead. Seven per cent might sound a lot by western standards, but it would represent China's slowest growth rate for a quarter of a century. We ask Professor Rana Mitter, director of the China Centre at Oxford University, what this means for the Chinese government, and for the Chinese people. The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Fergus Nicoll visits the coastal town of Nagapattinam, one of the Indian regions hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. And the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Vishala Sri-Pathma reports from Chennai on a growing challenge to one of the most important elements of traditional Indian marriages – the dowry.