Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department reports there were thirty-five convictions recorded in July for breaches of anti-pollution legislation.

China Huaneng Group has formally released its annual social responsibility report, which claims to be the first ever released by one of the five major power groups in China.

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China says it welcomes the promulgation of China's new Anti-Monopoly Law.

Philips and the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a joint molecular medicine research program in Shanghai.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is working to gauge the effects of organic pollutants across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by establishing 19 sites to measure environmental factors.

According to WWF, customs and the Frontier Service in the Primorskii province in the Russian Far East have reportedly seized a cache of illegal wildlife products bound for China.

Xiamen plans to set up three wind power stations which are expected to bring a total power capacity of 149,000kw to the city.