U.S.-based Financial Accounting Standards Board and the China Accounting Standards Committee signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation and communication between the two standards-setting organizations. Read More >

To show their support for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, Carrefour stores in Beijing asked their employees to wear clothing with China's national flag and hats with the Olympic Game logo. However only days after they began, they have been asked to stop wearing the hats by Beijing Olympic Games Organization Committee who say the company did so purely for marketing reasons. Read More >

Following the signing of the first batch of low temperature residual heat power generation contracts with Lafarge in 2007, Sinoma Energy Conservation Limited has now signed another low temperature residual heat power generation EP contract with the latter's Teresa cement company in the Philippines. Read More >

Beijing's industrial and commercial government departments are signing agreements with businesses under their jurisdiction to strengthen the protection of Olympic symbols and to destroy fake goods. Read More >

Jiangxi Province has formally initiated five research projects to further the protect the Poyanghu Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. Read More >

The Star-grade Hotel Assessment Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Tourism Bureau has exposed 18 hotels that have been found to have poor quality during an investigation. Read More >

Rules on the Range of Smoking Ban in the Public Areas of Beijing will be formally enforced on May 1, 2008. Read More >

Right before the World Intellectual Property Rights Day on April 26, 2008, the Shenzhen Procuratorial Department published details of a software piracy case jointly uncovered by police from China and the United States. Read More >

American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has announced the formal operation of its Chinese medical device production base in Suzhou. Read More >

The Southwest Management Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China has punished China Eastern Airlines' Yunnan Branch for the company's returned flights incident earlier this month after some of its pilots had a labor dispute. Read More >

Civil Aviation Administration of China says that from May 1, the number of luggage taken by passengers on Chinese domestic flights will be limited to ensure aviation safety. Read More >

With Chinese nationalism rising and anti-French feelings increasing, Airbus has shifted gears and called on its partners, suppliers and other related parties in China to share its vision of building a green, eco-friendly aviation industry. Read More >

American International Group has completed funding of approximately US$4 million for projects in China and the United States that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read More >

News from the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection is that MEP has passed, in principle, the MEP Work Rule (Draft) at an internal ministerial meeting. Read More >

The Pudong Special Education School in Shanghai is RMB16108 richer after a donation from The St. Regis Shanghai hotel. The donation funds were raised through a charity art exhibition held in December last year. Huang Hui-juan, the school representative, accepted the donation from the hotel's management.