Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it has started to deploy offline authorized stores to provide convenience to consumers who do not wish to shop online.

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.

Despite hopes for economic recovery, China's exporters failed to get much encouragement from the recent East China Trade Fair in Shanghai with the number of deals 39% down on those in 2008.

China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine has reported that its Zhejiang branch has identified three pesticides in a batch of soybeans imported to China from the United States.

According to the decision announced by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, the Korean electronics maker Samsung has been ordered to pay CNY50 million compensation to the Zhejiang-based Holley Communications for infringing the patent of Holley's GSM/CDMA dual-mode handsets.

The Automation and Drives Group of Siemens China has extended its portfolio by acquiring low-voltage control component manufacturer Shanghai APT.

After inspecting Qingchuan and Guangyuan in Sichuan Province for three days, more than 40 companies from Zhejiang Province have decided to donate CNY20.8 million for nine schools, and signed four letters of intent for investment projects totaling CNY400 million.

China's first enterprise credit pre-warning system has been formally unveiled in Zhejiang Province by Zhejiang Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce.

Zhejiang Bureau of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has signed a quality control and operation pledge letter with toy exporters across the province.