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                                     April. 2005

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The Annual Conference in 2005 of WIN will be held at Oxford , England since April 19th to 23rd, 2005.

Mr. Richard Jacques-Turner, the Executive Director of WAD invites Mr. Hai YANG to attend The Mid-Term Board Meeting of WAD holding at Rhode Island , Greece since May 5th to 8th, 2005.

On March 25, 2005, the seminar on the topic of ¡®Investigation Tips of Insurance Claims¡¯ had achieved a great success, which organized by Tianjin Office of Sun Life Everbright and Steele.

Since this May, ¡®Steele Newsletter¡¯ will be published in the first day of every month, and herein we sincerely thank your concern and support, but please keep providing your precious suggestions.

On April 1st, 2005 China Life Insurance Company Limited and Bank of China Company Limited signed the business cooperation agreement in Beijing, according to The Agreement, both sides will cooperate comprehensively in many traditional fields including the insurance agent, deposit business, financing operation, financing settlement, E-business, bank cards, and fund cooperation, besides that they also expand the cooperation in the trusteeship of insurance capital, information system development, the deep exploration of cooperation mode, and so on.

On April 1st, 2005, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (¡®PICC P & C¡¯) announced its new insurance product and sold its first E-insurance policy when The Electronic Signature Law of People¡¯s Republic of China put in practice.

¡®The Statute of Prevention Duty Crime¡¯ has been passed through at The 35th meeting of The 3rd Shenzhen NPC Standing Committee, in which some familiar words and phases are included in the local regulations such as taking the blame and resigning, supervision by news media, and so on. ¡®The Statute¡¯ gives a clear definition of the journalist¡¯s rights including the right to know the truth and the reasonable suspicious right, which is a big breakthrough point for news medial to use the supervision right.

Four Hong Kong citizens have been awarded the Certified Attorney by Shenzhen Judicial Department on April 3, 2005, whom are the first obtained the licensed certificate in Mainland China.

Since the Electronic Signature Law of People¡¯s Republic of China put in practice on April 1st, 2005, the E-signature will have the same legal force like the traditional handwriting signature and the seal.

Insurance Anecdote

Unemployment Insurance of The King

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One former King of Thailand had one worth commending in his life by forecasting his fate when The King¡¯s reputation was in the summit.

In 1925, he ascended the throng becoming The King of Thailand, but The King didn¡¯t have any famous achievement in his post, accordingly he worried and was afraid of his post be dethroned by the government all daylong and then becoming a poor paper as poor as a church mouse. By preventing the eventuality, The King respectively insured at a British Insurance Company and A French Insurance Company against his unemployment insurance, in which two insurance companies had never issued an insurance policy for a King, but none of them gave up the chance in expanding their company, by that two insurance companies willingly issued the insurance policy with considerable insurance amount for The King.

The fact proved that the King was right who met troubles halfway, and subsequently he yielded up his kingship in 1935. Becoming a common people, upon that the former King couldn¡¯t enjoy the nabobism like a King of the country, but he wasn¡¯t down and out, and peacefully and safely spent his last 6 years after the abdication depending on the large unemployment insurance from two insurance companies.

Investigation tips How To Protect Business Secret

Protecting your business secret by legal means. The protection of business secret by Laws has two forms in China, and the first form is by the tortious law, mainly by means of ¡®General Rules Of Civil Law¡¯, ¡®Anti-Malfeasance Competitive Law¡¯, and ¡¯Criminal Law¡¯, the second form is by the contract law, mainly by means of ¡®Technological Contract Law¡¯, and ¡¯The Labor Law¡¯. 

Protecting your business secret by economic means, which include: 1) by using the distribution plan; 2) by using the long-term labor contract, 3) by using a certain property right assignment. How to choose three methods listed above, it will depend on the specific status and the business secret of the enterprise.

Protecting your business secret by administrative means, which include: 1) set up a sole department for protection business secret of the enterprise; 2) establish the interior confidential system; 3) strengthen internal training and supervision; 4) bring the management of business secret into the basic management system of the enterprise, administrating it by regularly management instead of just by experience; 5) Sign the confidential contract with employees.

Protecting your business secret by trusting professional investigation agencies. None of the above-mentioned means and methods can solely solve the business risk, by that the enterprise should consider protecting the business secret by using various means based on its practical situation of an enterprise.

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