InterContinental Hotels Group received the 2005 Corporate Partnership Award which was presented by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, President of Save the Children United Kingdom. The honor was conferred in recognition of InterContinental's excellent support for the work of Save the Children in China.
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In a presentation at the 10th annual China International Pharmaceutical Industry Exhibition in Shanghai, Ian Sellick of Pall Corporation, described how the use of disposable and scalable technologies to purify large molecule vectors, such as for flu vaccines, can help manufacturers streamline the process and overcome many of the unique challenges associated with vaccine development.
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The Beijing Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce has stepped into the probe of a local company, registered early last month, claiming to sell land on moon.
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Xinhua reports that KFC's fast food chicken outlets in Tianjin last week began to suspend the sale of a soup made from an allegedly poisonous plant.
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North Carolina's Governor Mike Easley announced that China-invested Lenovo will use US$84 million to build a research and development center in his state, creating 400 new jobs during the next five years.
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This week the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) released a report regarding problems in China's aviation industry in the third quarter of the year.
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The head of the China National Tourism Administration will visit Taipei for "personal reasons" today.
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China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has blacklisted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Center in Peking University due to malpractices.
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China plans to initiate social security reforms in its vast rural areas next year. Xiang Huaicheng, Chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund, recently discussed the plan in a speech at the Xiamen National Accounting Institute in the coastal Province of Fujian.
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Chinese Internet users are taking turns at criticizing McDonald's for an injury that a child received from a straw dispenser at one of the fast food chain's outlets in China.
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Shanda, a Chinese online video game developer, and The United Nations World Food Programme announced a partnership for the production of a Chinese version of Food Force, a free, educational video game aimed at teaching children about the fight against world hunger.
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China will begin blacklisting cities that fail to reach the national air quality standard, a senior official of the country's environmental agency said in Beijing.
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Rats are a serious problem in Shanghai, and the city has issued the nation's first regulation on rat prevention and control, fining businesses, restaurants and other enterprises that do not control the rodents.
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Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental will close on December 28, 2005 and will re-open in late August 2006, with the renovation of the public areas and approximately 200 guestrooms complete.
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China says it will take measures to ensure that by the year 2010, the number of people infected with HIV does not exceed 1.5 million.
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