Soaring food costs drove up China's

A farmer carries a load of cabbages from his fields on the outskirts of Beijing November 11, 2007. Soaring food costs drove up China's inflation in October, reinforcing expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates again before long to keep a lid on price pressures. Food prices soared 17.6 percent, with vegetables up 29.9 percent, while non-food prices rose just 1.1 percent in October from a year earlier, the same pace as in September. Picture taken November 11, 2007.