. £180,000 fund for a pro—beijing shadow minister. —— cash link. fund for a pro—beijing shadow ministero is labour's shadow international trade secretary. what we discovered, and it's been declared, i should say, is that over the last year and a half he has received around £180,000 in staff costs. money somebody else has paid him so he can employ staff. this money has come from a firm of lawyers who also act as legal advisers to the chinese embassy in london and have quite significant contacts london and have quite significant co nta cts to london and have quite significant contacts to beijing. a little bit more than that, the woman who founded the firm who runs the firm, her son has been working in barry gardner's westminster office and being paid for by her to work for him. as we say, there is no suggestion of impropriety, but people at the labour party are worried, saying it doesn't look good. we have a guy representing the labour party talking about things like trade, of which china is a big part, of energy, which china is a big part of, so should you be putting himself in that posi

concerns about moves by beijing to tighten monetary policy cast a shadow over other benchmarks in the region. hang seng index dropping to 23,129, the clothing number there, down .24%. shares in indonesia adding 0.1%. rising for a third day to reach the highest in three months. in sydney slid .4%. >>> japanese companies are on a push to win more business in china. they've started getting new customers, new to the influx of chinese service. they hope to capitalize on it through the internet. nhk world reports on their strategies. >> reporter: japanese cosmetics companiess make a pipitch. but they're not talking to customers, they're speaking to online retailers in china. sosome 50 companies a a streami videos at this event. targeting 30,000 online stores. the chinese r retailers can ord goods to carry on their sites. the products will be shipped to the online retailers. this way the japanese companies don't have to worry about delivery or collecting payment from individual consumers. the retailers in china use messaging to ask for more decades. online sales of japanese consumer goods in