Lawyers

• China says Disney to get special trademark protection

  China will give special trademark protection to Walt Disney Co as the iconic U.S. firm prepares to open its first theme park in mainland China next year, a regulator said on Thursday.

• Alibaba lobbies to stay off U.S. blacklist list for fakes

  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is lobbying hard to stay off the U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits sold on its shopping platforms.

• Xinhua says China blast warehouse did not have proper license

  The Chinese company which owns a warehouse that exploded in Tianjin last week, killing more than 100 people, did not have a license to handle hazardous chemicals until two months before the disaster, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

• Alibaba's Jack Ma seeks to reassure employees over U.S. lawsuits

  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Executive Chairman Jack Ma urged employees to relax about U.S. lawsuits against the firm over possible failure to disclose information to investors, in a letter to staff posted on his official microblog on Friday.

• China quality watchdog tells Alibaba fakes threaten China's reputation

  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd must pay more attention to product quality and step up the fight against fake goods sold online, China's product quality watchdog chief told company executive chairman Jack Ma, according to a statement on Tuesday.

• China regulator blasts Alibaba for illegal business on its websites

  A China regulator has accused Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) of failing to clean up what it called illegal business deals on the e-commerce titan's platforms, in an unusually strong government criticism of one of the country's biggest private firms.

• China antitrust regulator says Microsoft not transparent with sales information

  A Chinese antitrust regulator said on Tuesday that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) had not been fully transparent with its sales data on the software it distributes in China, including information on sales of its media player and web browser software.