The China Association for Quality is working with China Mobile to establish Zhima, the first official platform to track goods through their lifecycle in China.

About 800 employees working in China for U.S.-based semiconductor chip manufacturer Marvell have forced the company to negotiate over layoff plans.

U.S.-based ITT Corporation announced plans to sponsor an engineering talent development program in China.

New Zealand-based Fonterra has advised eight of its customers of a quality issue involving three batches of a particular type of whey protein concentrate produced at a single New Zealand manufacturing site in May 2012.

Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety announced the results of a targeted surveillance project on microbiological quality of bottled water.

Hong Kong companies operating factories in Hong Kong or Guangdong Province in the Chinese mainland may apply for funding support under a new scheme to promote cleaner manufacturing.

Samsung China revealed in its corporate social responsibility report for 2012 that during the reporting period, Samsung's total operating revenue in China reached USD75.1 billion.