Mannings, one of the largest health and beauty product chain store brands in Hong Kong, has announced its latest expansion plan and the company says it will increase the number of its outlets in mainland China to over 150 before the end of 2009.

Japanese cosmetics company Kanebo has announced that, after a year's expansion, its manufacturing plant in Shanghai has been formally completed.

Following the NUK baby powder case, South Korean LOCECN cosmetics have now been reported to contain the carcinogen actinolite and the Chinese distributor is recalling the suspect products.

China's General Administration of Industry and Commerce has commenced an investigation on NUK Baby Powder sold on the Chinese market following a report in South Korean media which said that a number of baby powder products, including NUK Baby Powder made by Babyra, contain the carcinogen actinolite.

Health and beauty products retailer Watsons has opened a new type of concept store in Tianjin.

Guangdong Provincial Consumers' Commission recently exposed five kinds of hair dye as containing harmful chemicals, and now Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration has reported that six more hair dye products, made by five companies, have been found to contain m-Phenylenediamine, a chemical that can cause cancer.