As a celebration of the 20th anniversary of McDonald's entry into the Chinese market, the international fast food giant has announced plans to launch a new hamburger university in Shanghai, the company's seventh worldwide, making the city a new human resources training base for McDonald's in Asia Pacific.

The Legal System Bureau of Taipei County Government in Taiwan has published a report which states that cancer-causing chemicals have been identified on the food products of such fast food companies as McDonald's and KFC.

Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption says a McDonald's restaurant executive was getting additional money slipped to him between his all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, and cheese.

Four retail outlets in Beijing were listed in January as using too much heat and have been told to turn down their thermostats.

In response to the milk scandal in China, the international coffee shop chain Starbucks has stopped selling all products that contain milk in its Chinese stores while launching new soymilk coffee products.

Ronald McDonald House Charities has announced that it has donated ten wholly-equipped ambulances worth CNY1.3 million to maternity and child health-care hospitals in Sichuan.

Though there are only about 20 days left before China's deadline for registration, a number of food operators, including McDonald's, KFC, Quanjude and Yonho Soybean Milk, have reportedly not registered with the Ministry of Commerce as required, and this has put them at the risk of violating China's new Business Franchise Operation Management Rule.