China's consumer price index up 1.2% in October

SHANGHAI, China: China's consumer price index, the country's key inflation measure, rose 1.2 percent in October from a year ago, the government reported Friday, showing inflation remains tame. 

Higher prices for vegetables and fuel propelled the index above September's increase of 0.9 percent - the slowest so far this year. For the January-October period, inflation rose 1.9 percent compared to the same period of 2004, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.