Cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA filed two lawsuits last week in U.S. District Court against 34 New York City retailers for selling counterfeit versions of the company's Marlboro brand cigarettes.

Sweden-based Atlas Copco inaugurated a new production facility in China.

Beijing's pharmacy chain operators, including Cachet, Golden Elephant, Yishou Baixing, Haodekuai, and Jewim Pharmaceutical have jointly initiated a pharmacy alliance, which is the seventh pharmacy alliance in the provincial-level market in China.

China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

After more than four years of arguments with Sanhuan Xiangmo New Technology Co., Ltd, a Sino-Japanese joint venture where he used to be employed, Tang Xiaodong has failed in his lawsuit and was ordered to terminate his labor relations with SXNTC.

A recent survey published by China Electronic Chamber of Commerce Consumer Electronic Product Investigation Office shows that the failure rate of the digital cameras sold in China reached 12.9%.

Jiangsu Lee & Man (Changshu) Paper Manufacturing Limited has reportedly been ordered to stop production by officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection because of illegal discharges into the Changjiang River.