Coach, a leading American designer and maker of luxury lifestyle handbags and accessories, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Taobao.com, the Chinese Internet shopping subsidiary of Alibaba Group, to prevent the sale of fake Coach products on this Chinese website.

Wal-Mart has announced that its Chinese president and chief executive officer, Chen Yaochang, has resigned.

International environmental organization Greenpeace is taking supermarkets in China to court over excessive use of pesticides.

The Standardization Administration of China has published nine standards for the after-sales services of home appliances, which are China's first batch of national standards in the home appliances retail service sector.

The consumer association of Jilin Province and the Macau Consumer Council have signed a cooperation agreement in Changchun to jointly protect consumers' rights and interests.

China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a notice to regulate the sales activities of foreign-invested enterprises that are engaged in either Internet sales or vending machine sales.