Sun Baoshu, vice minister of China's Ministry of Labor and Social Security, disclosed at a recent meeting that China is drafting a Salary Rule to solve such social problems as low salaries, slow increase of salaries, problems of collecting back pay for workers and establishing a normal salary increase and payment mechanism.

Johnson Medtech, the medical products network of Johnson Electric, one of the world's largest providers of motion actuators, announced the opening of a new facility in Shajing, China and reported that the plant has also received ISO 13485 certification.

According to local media reports, Carrefour China has asked its over 40,000 employees across China, except those who have already signed a non-fixed term labor contract with the company, to re-sign a two-year labor contract with it before December 28, 2007 regardless of the length of the employees' service in the company or whether their [...]

Crowne Plaza Pudong Shanghai held its "Green Expo, Start from Myself" signing ceremony where the first group of hotel green ambassadors received a special card and promised that they would help to monitor five basic points of environmental protection in the hotel: switch of the lights and water taps when not necessary; use recycled paper [...]

Hong Kong says it will introduce the Product Eco-responsibility Bill into the Legislative Council to provide a legal framework for implementing producer responsibility schemes, with the environmental levy on plastic shopping bags as the first scheme under the bill.

Fudan University's Academic Regulation Commission has announced on the university's official website that nine teachers and students at the school, including some mentors for doctors, had been involved in plagiarism when preparing their respective books and theses.

Ford Motor Company says it has delivered another record year in China, not only in terms of sales, but also with the ongoing introduction of a pioneering program that helps improve the standards and working conditions of companies in its supply network.