As part of an agreement with Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Kaplan, Inc., together with its affiliate Kaplan ACE, will establish a financial training center that will provide internationally-recognized financial qualifications and on-the-job training to students in western China. Read More >

The Communist Youth League, Juvenile Job Committee and Civil Affairs Department in Hebei Province have jointly initiated a special campaign to save homeless children in Hebei. Read More >

China's National Development and Reform Commission has asked the pricing departments at various levels around the nation to regulate the oil market and punish those oil operators who raise oil prices. Read More >

Regal International East Asia Hotel and Regal Shanghai East Asia Hotel donated RMB50,000 to the Shanghai Charity Foundation for improving the facilities for underprivileged children at Jin Shan Jin An School. In addition, the two hotels took the opportunity during their 10th anniversary celebrations to launch a charity program that donates RMB10 for each room booked for one night during the month of October 2007.

By Bill Valentino
As the corporate sector increasingly faces the challenges of sustainability, it needs leaders who have the capacity to incorporate strategies for both sustainability and profitability into to their businesses to achieve value maximization in a more holistic way. Read More >

Forty-nine medical service providers in Shanghai have reportedly been punished for cheat consumers. Read More >

To advance the study of global business journalism in China, Tsinghua University and Global Sources have opened the Global Sources Hall at the School of Journalism and Communication. Read More >

The United Nations has hosted a ceremony to launch a joint project that aims to empower and support the significant involvement of women and men living with HIV as meaningful partners in China's multi-sector response to AIDS. Read More >

China Guodian Longyuan Electric Power Group Corporation has signed an agreement of carbon emission reduction purchase with KPC from Austria. Read More >

Lin Zhenggang, president of Cisco Systems (China) Networking Technology Co., Ltd, met with Hunan's vice governor Xu Xianping to discuss establishing 23 online institutes in Hunan Province. Read More >

CIBT School of Business and Technology Corporation has signed an agreement to establish a CIBT Education Center at Tianjin University. Read More >

News from China Rural Energy Development International Symposium is that with the support of the United Nations Development Program, the Office of the State Council Energy Leading Group is drafting a new rural energy strategy to establish a vision for China's future rural energy development and offer more opportunities for the poor to access to sustainable energy. Read More >

A representative from Shanghai Municipal Transportation Management Department is quoted in local media as saying that Shanghai will work out a better controlling measure and reasonable vehicle scale according to market demand and road capacity and launch a road congestion fee at an appropriate time. Read More >

Since August this year, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China has been conducting a thorough check on all the toy exporters of the country and says it has revoked the export qualifications of 1074 toy makers. Read More >

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has now published the Code of Practice under the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance, which serves as guidance to senders of commercial electronic messages on how sender information and unsubscribe facility statement should be presented, and the type of unsubscribe facility that should be provided, in commercial electronic messages. Read More >