“China will launch its own next-generation mobile phone service by June 2005, a government official has told a state newspaper. China’s own 3G technnology standard aims to avoid foreign development costs and could be worth billions of dollars in licensing fees to Chinese companies. The new handsets will be compatible with existing 3G networks abroad. […]
Read More“China will launch an administrative supervision on the providers of electronic signature certification, according to the draft law on electronic signatures in the deliberation by China’s top legislature. The 5-day tenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress (NPC) opened in Beijing Monday, and began to deliberate the draft law on […]
Read More“For voicing his opinion online, 40-year-old activist Du Daobin was charged with subversion earlier this month and sentenced to four years of house arrest, becoming one of more than 60 cyberdissidents currently detained by the Chinese government. “We have the legal right to overthrow this government,” he wrote in a column that was published in […]
Read MoreFrom yesterday’s Business week: “U.S. search-engine outfits are jumping into the Middle Kingdom’s surging online marketplace, sometimes buying a piece of local rivals. The search wars raging in the U.S. are spilling over to the Middle Kingdom. On June 21, Yahoo! ( YHOO ) debuted a Chinese-language search service called Yisou. That follows hard on […]
Read MoreThe Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a new research report on strategies for success in China. It is a very optimistic report. “China today is entering a new era. For foreign investors, it is no longer simply a cheap production platform or an incipient market; it is a market coming of age, and one […]
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