Amway China signed a new agreement with China Telecom on Friday to provide its salespeople with 3G phones with special online product and sales functions.

The agreement, which was signed at Amway China's headoffice in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, will let qualified Amway salespeople attain custom-made 3G smart phones with several functions especially designed for them. The functions include online shopping, sales queries, customer sevices and makeup simulation.

Mannatech, Inc. (NASDAQ - MTEX), has received a merit Web Health Award. The Web Health Awards program recognizes the best Web-based health-related content for consumers and professionals. The program, held twice a year, reviews Web sites and bestows a seal of quality for those that provide reliable health information. This seal of quality should remind consumers that a panel of international health information and Internet experts have reviewed the site and approved it for accuracy, success in reaching its targeted audience and overall quality.

According to several qualified industry leaders attending the first session of the 14th Academic Symposium on Direct Selling in Beijing last Friday, the sales figures of the direct-selling industry on the Chinese mainland will grow more than 30 percent this year to 60 billion yuan ($8.79 billion). Li Wencheng, assistant to the general manager of the New Era Health Industry Group, one of the 24 licensed direct-selling companies on the Chinese mainland, said that his company will grow by an even larger mark-up than the average industry growth rate. Quite a number of attendees of the symposium look upon the controversial industry, which is still under strict regulation from the Chinese government, as a miracle in times of economic turbulences.

Less than only one week after the US-SEC ( Security and Exchange Commission) had accused Wayde McKelvy of raising $30 million by a scheme through his company, Speed of Wealth, LLC, he already promoted according to a press release a new business opportunity by e-mail: "The Donald Trump Network“. The business model markets nutritional products on a network marketing plattform in which the distributors receive their share of the turnover made by salespeople they recruited in addition to the amount of money they earn selling Trump Network products. The Trump Network, however, yet did not answer the media article.

Camden is the place where TNI officially opened its new UK office. Independant Product Consultants (IPC) from Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands as well as from the UK had come to attend the formal ribbon cutting ceremony which was hosted by none other than Charlie Smith, TNI’s Vice President of Operation from the Head Office in Utah. Among the special guests was also Richard Berry, Director of the DSA UK (Direct Sellig Association) who emphasized in an address the enormous potential of direct selling particularly in these times of economical turbulences and congratulated TNI on its magnificent new location.