Again from Asia Times, Peter Morris wrote: “With growth in China’s advertising market expected to reach 18.3 percent this year, Google has jumped on the bandwagon with the introduction of its new Chinese AdWords advertising service. The service, which began operating last Wednesday, gives advertisers the chance to bid for ad placement on pages linked […]
Read MoreFrom movies, fashions to pop music, mainland Chinese have for decades taken cues from their more affluent and cosmopolitan Hong Kong cousins. A new editorial in the Asian Wall Street Journal suggested that the Chinese may now be able to copy another formerly unlikely trend in their fast changing society: civil liberty.
Read MoreBBC’s reporter Tim Luard wrote: “Having breathed new life into China’s press, Sars now looks as if it is helping stifle it again. The government was shamed by last year’s epidemic into unleashing the media to help spread public awareness of the disease and chase up officials who had been slow to act. In the […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times today: ” To high-technology companies, China has been a land of seemingly pure promise in recent years. Not only is it a fast-growing consumer market, but it has also become a low-cost workshop for assembling technology products for American, European and Japanese concerns. But as China moves to expand its own […]
Read More“Twenty-five percent of Chinese city dwellers (especially small cities) are regular Internet users… Nearly 85% of them were below the age of 35. ” This is from the recent CINNIC survey. Xinhua’s English site China View had a article entitled “2003: Lifestyles of the young.” Here are some quotes from it. “The ever-expanding group of […]
Read MoreFinancial Times reported today in an article entitled The sound of added value on Asiainfo’s new move. The China-focused telecommunications systems and software company is seeking to make mobile phone “value-added” services a mainstay of its business over the next two years. The move reflects expectations of cautious future infrastructure spending by Chinese operators, which […]
Read MoreThe world’s largest Chinese digital library, a database containing over 12 million documents or 25 percent of China’s public information resources, opened on Saturday, November 8, 2003. The digital library aims to make it possible for users to share 80 percent of China’s intellectual resources through the Internet within three years. The database covers information […]
Read MoreAsia Computer Weekly reported from Hong Kong that Oracle has opened its second R&D facility in China, to offer more localised offerings to the Chinese and Japanese markets. The China Development Centre (CDC) is located in Beijing√≠s Zhongguancun Software Park. The first facility was opened in Shenzhen in June last year. Beside Oracle, software giant […]
Read MoreAnyone who follows how Internet impacting on Chinese society should pay close attention to the case of Du Daobin. Du, 39, is a very representative voice of young generation of outspoken “liberal public intellectuals” in China, emerged from and empowered by the Net. In the past year or so, Du has become one of the […]
Read MoreThe daughter of Chinese President Hu Jintao has secretly married a millionaire board-member of leading Chinese Internet portal Sina.com, sources revealed. Hu Haiqing, the 33-year-old daughter of the president, married Daniel Mao, who made a fortune as a former chief executive officer of the Sina Corp, China’s leading NASDAQ listed Internet portal, AFP learned from […]
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