From March 1, more than 1800 different kinds of electronics in China need to have environmental protection stickers pasted somewhere in a visible location.

More than 1000 volunteers in Beijing are promoting the concept of a Green Olympics in a campaign called "Smile Beijing: Volunteer Environmental Beautification Campaign" on the weekends.

GobiMin's wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into agreements to form two joint ventures in China to participate in resource exploration on Xinjiang's Xinyuan Yuximolegai Copper Deposit and Xinjiang's Nileke Alasitan Copper Deposit.

A movie about AIDS orphans in Anhui has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.

Cathay Forest Products has signed a joint venture agreement to develop 39,600 hectares of standing timber in Guizhou Province in southwestern China.

Pacific Asia China Energy's joint venture drilling subsidiary, PACE Mitchell Drilling and its marketing partner in China, Australian Mining Services International, have participated in the signing of a multi-company degasification contract with the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Group.

China's National Council for Social Security Fund says it will now be using Insightful's S-PLUS as its primary analytics platform for building the SSF's internal metric system for risk management and investment performance.