If you look at the allocation of investment, there was definitely an improvement, so that's a big positive step.

The Chinese economy faces four types of structural challenges ? over investment, too much dependence on external demand, inefficiency in resource use, and regional disparity and income inequality.

It's not going to change. At the moment, the government is trying to slow momentum a bit, but we're not seeing slowing.

The UAE is a major destination for tourism and investment.

The improvement in underlying sales has been driven by some price investment and by 'easy' improvements in availability that you would expect in the early stages of a recovery. Indeed, it is still too early to call any major recovery.

Even though the end result was disappointing, we were very positive on our improvement.