The State Administration for Industry and Commerce reports that in the first quarter of 2009 a total of 584 business bribery cases were uncovered, which was a decrease of 1.18% over the same period last year.

News from Guangdong Provincial Consumers' Commission is that five types of hair dye products, including some from Revlon, have been found to contain m-phenylenediamine, a listed carcinogen.

Guangdong province plans to take a number of measures related to social insurance to help companies ease the burden of the declining economy.

Chinese software provider Kingsoft plans to invest CNY1 billion to build a 96,000-square-meter headquarters and research center in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.

AOC, one of the world's top Chinese monitor manufacturers, has announced plans to build a LCD module and LCD television plant in the flat-panel and LCD monitor industrial base in Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong Province.

Toshiba Corporation has announced that the company has turned the joint venture it ran with top Chinese electronics maker TCL into a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring the remaining 10% stake of the joint venture for JPY200 million.

French engineering giant Alstom has signed a contract worth over EUR200 million with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company for the engineering and procurement of the complete turbine island for the nuclear power plant to be built in Taishan, Guangdong.

China Bottles Inc., a Qingyuan, Guangdong based plastic packaging solutions and plastic bottle production equipment company has announced that its June contracts amounted to approximately USD3.3 million from both domestic and overseas clients.

Zhong Shanshan, president of Nongfu Spring, told First Financial Daily that to support the earthquake relief of the disaster areas in Sichuan, Nongfu Spring will invest RMB300 million to build a mineral water factory in these areas.

3Com Corporation announced the appointment of two new senior executives to help accelerate the company's business plan in China and around the globe.