Online video service provider Youku.com has launched a campaign in Beijing to protect its online copyright.

Foreign media cite a report from the United Nations Environment Programme saying that by 2020, the volume of IT related electronic waste products will be four times of that of 2007 and China and India will be the main source of toxic e-waste.

Liu Tangzhi, the general manager of Skyworth Group's China Marketing Department, disclosed at a recent conference that Skyworth will make technical breakthroughs to update all its television products to be energy-saving and environmentally-friendly within three years.

The China Audio and Video Copyright Collective Management Association, which has been brewing for about ten years, has been formally set up in Beijing to implement China's "Copyright Collective Management Rule".

China's State Food and Drug Administration is pushing for faster adoption of a credit system to keep track of medical and pharmaceutical companies who advertise their products.

Ben Ho, head of Hong Kong's Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau, received an appreciation plaque from Takero Goto, the chairman of the Content Japan Mark Committee. Ho received the honor on behalf of the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department for its anti-piracy enforcement in the protection of copyrighted Japanese music, films and TV programs.

Though Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp has made an announcement in response to an earlier report which said that it was discriminating against Chinese consumers by selling the same type of products at different prices, it has not been able to stop the many protests arising from the public in China.