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                                                     June. 2007

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Mr. Hai Yang, President of Steele Business Investigation Center, was invited to participate in the 53rd CII Annual General Meeting in 2007, which will be held from August 15, 2007 to August 18, 2007 in Chicago . In order to thank Mr. Yang for his contribution to CII these years, CII Vice President Nancy S. Barber invited Mr. Yang to join the welcome banquet for CII¡¯s major regional directors in Elephant Castle Restaurant, Radisson Hotel on August 16, 2007.

Oregon Association of Licensed Investigators Annual Meeting & Seminar will be opened at Black Bear Inn Best Western Salem, OR on June 8th & 9th, 2007.

The 18th Annual ACFE Fraud Conference & Exhibition, to be held this year in Orlando , 15-20 July 2007.

Mr. Hai Yang, the President of SBCS, was invited to take part in the special lecture sponsored by Generali China Life Insurance Co., Ltd, and delivered the speech on How to Control the HR risk via Busniss Investigation. 

Recently, in China High-level Forum on Intellectual Property Rights Protection 2007, the Vice Minister of Ministry of Commerce of PRC and Director of State Office of Intellectual Property. Protection stated that in view of the increase of Chinese enterprises involved in foreign-related Intellectual Property Rights disputes year by year, China is in the establishment of an overseas intellectual property rights protection mechanism to strengthen the support on the protection of enterprises¡¯ rights overseas.

Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) is taking measures to perfect the risk management system. News from ADBC 1st Risk management and Legal Affaires Conference disclosed that by the end of 2006, the balance of nonperforming loans of ADBC dropped to RMB 67.7 billion, decreasing by RMB 13.3 billion than last year. The nonperforming loan ratio fell to 7.65%, 2.64% lower that last year. ADBC had made remarkable progress in risk monitoring, risk warning, assets preserving, clearance of non-performing loans, authorization management, judicial review and consulting, economic disputes management, etc.

Risk Analysis on Chain Business Investment

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1. The Inevitability in the Collision between Chinese Enterprises and International Commercial Giants

As China entered the WTO making the promise to remove all the restrictions on foreign retailers as well as there is huge potential market in China, it attracted the international retail giants such as Wal-Mart. At present, 70% of the top 50 retail giants have spread into China. These enterprises possess obvious advantage over domestic ones either in management or in financial strength. Domestic retailers are far behind them in global procurement and logistics distribution system. After China¡¯s entry into the WTO, domestic retails will directly face tough competition and challenges from foreign competitors within three years.

2. High assets liability ratio and big financial risk

Fast expansion of chain retail enterprises in recent years demands a large amount of capital invested into the business, which accordingly resulted in the high assets liability ratio and big financial risk. Short of capital is a general problem that hinders the main business development for listed chain retail enterprises.

3. Fast development of centralization and furious competition

A lot of retail enterprises will inevitably face bankruptcy, replacement or merge in future with more and more furious competition among domestic and foreign retail enterprises; at the same time, enhancement of centralization in chain operation will also lead to competition intensify. During furious competition, retail enterprises shall keep alert not blindly perusing the business expansion while ignoring the construction and development of supporting facilities and measures.

4. Low operational efficiency and poor profitability

Though the supermarkets keep rapid growth in the scale, their operational efficiency and profitability remained low, even the decrease in some target with the average net profit margin declining by as much as 14.74%. It reflects the extremely furious competition in Chinese retails industry. Moreover, with the huge expenditures in the period of expansion, the growing pace of profit is much slower than that of sales scale. In this circumstance, there is the trend of declining in gross profit and net profit margin in chain retailing industry.

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Explanation of Professional Glossary

How to Identify the Defendant in Cases of Infringement of  Reputation Rights by News Report

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In accordance with laws in China, the inauthentic news report resulting in damages to others¡¯ reputation will be regarded as the infringement of reputation rights of others. In these csases, the plaintiff and the defendant shall be defined as follows:

1.The victim shall be the plaintiff. In case the victim had been died, the closely connected relative instead.

2. In principle, the defendant is defined according to the plaintiff¡¯s accusation: the author accused is the defendant; or the news agent accused is the defendant; or the author and the news agent accused are co-defendants. If the author is subordinate to the agent and publish the news in demand of the work, the news agent shall be the defendant only.

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