Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’

Traders Upper East Hotel, Beijing Receives “Best Newly Opened Hotel Award”

Beijing, China (September 25, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The 2009-2010 China Hotel Industry Summit and Best Business, Resorts, Newly Opened Hotel Award ceremony took place at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on 6 August 2010. At the ceremony, Traders Upper East Hotel, Beijing was named one of the “Ten Best Newly Opened Hotels in [...]


Mobile Operators Respond To Shocked Hong Kong Mobile Phone Users

Responding to complaints from mobile phone consumers in Hong Kong about hidden telecommunications fees and high bills, Hong Kong’s Office of the Telecommunications Authority has taken action. OFTA has published measures that have been implemented by individual mobile operators to prevent what it calls “mobile bill shock”. These measures include allowing customers to opt-out of [...]


China’s Gome To Sue Former Chairman

Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Gome has announced that its board of directors has decided to sue its former executive director Huang Guangyu. As part of this initiative, the company requires Huang to compensate losses caused by his irregular activities in the repurchase of shares of Gome at the beginning of 2008. According to [...]


American Search Engine Tries China, Again

Google.com, which has failed to gain momentum in China against rivals like Baidu.com, has issued a statement that it will end its automatic redirect to its Hong Kong website.
David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and the chief legal officer, stated on the company’s official blog, “We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn [...]


Workers At Apple Supplier Suffer From n-Hexane Poisoning In China

According to Hong Kong media, about 62 workers from China’s Jiangsu province have been hospitalized for n-Hexane poisoning while they worked for Wintek, a supplier of Apple.
The reports, which also appeared in mainland Chinese media like Sohu.com, state that the workers were working on touchscreens for Apple’s iPhone products before they got n-Hexane poisoning and [...]


LehmanBrown International Accountants launches Graduate Recruitment Program 2010

Beijing, China (April 13, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — LehmanBrown International Accountants today kicked off its 2010 Graduate Recruitment Program with a series of Campus Recruitment Talks, held in-conjunction with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of the largest professional accounting bodies in the world. The Graduate Recruitment Program is run nationwide with [...]


It’s Official: Google Ends Search Service In Mainland China

Google is now redirecting users from its mainland China website to its Hong Kong website as “a sensible solution to the challenges” the company faces.
In a blog post on the company’s official site, David Drummond, senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer, stated: “Figuring out how to make good on our promise [...]


Hong Kong Government Increases IT Budget For New Projects

According to Jeremy Richard Godfrey, chief information officer for Hong Kong government, Hong Kong plans to increase its information technology budget for 2010, aiming to develop five major innovative technology projects.
Godfrey told local media the government will launch a special measure to allocate HKD63 million to the education department for the promotion of a one-year [...]


Hong Kong Earns Highest Email Spam Honor

Technology security company Symantec says Hong Kong received the highest level of spam of any region or country in the world as the company published its latest report.
The May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report highlights that spam experienced a further worldwide increase of 5.1% since last month, reaching heights of 90.4%. Email spam levels in Hong [...]


Hong Kong’s Fixed-Mobile Interconnection Charges Now De-regulated

Hong Kong’s Office of the Telecommunications Authority has issued a statement that the regulatory guidance on fixed-mobile interconnection charge in favor of the mobile party’s network pay model will be withdrawn as planned today when the two-year transition period ends.
The interconnection charge for fixed-mobile interconnection will thereafter be settled among fixed and mobile operators by [...]