Last week, Beijing announced new standards and official translations that can be used on more than 2,000 different types of signs, as well as on menus.

Three weeks ago, it announced standards to expand the ability of law-enforcement agents to monitor conversations and locate criminal suspects.

On Tuesday, Ms. Whitman announced equally tough standards for "non-road" diesel engines, used in construction, agricultural and industrial equipment.

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced new national standards to prevent leakage from landfills into which Americans dump 135 million tons of trash and garbage each year.

Microsoft also announced they were working on distributed agreement (transaction) standards.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, he announced a public investigation and stricter standards for municipal water treatment.

The EPA announced updated standards for lighting fixtures to qualify for Energy Star labels.

This summer, the city announced new nutritional standards, with which the breakfasts will comply.

In late January, the Finance Ministry announced standards for the issuance by foreign companies of commercial paper in Tokyo.

The corporation announced strict environmental standards for its developers in February 2007 in order to help reduce wastewater runoff into the river.