Posts Tagged ‘Law & Policy’

Chinese Consumers Complain About HP’s Products

March 12th, 2010

More than 170 consumers from China have jointly filed an appeal, requesting the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China to conduct an investigation on the laptop computers made by HP and order the company to recall all of its substandard laptop products.
According to Laweach, a Chinese website that has helped organize [...]


Thirty Chinese Mobile Service Providers Punished For Irregular Operations

March 3rd, 2010

According to Cctime.com, a Chinese communications industry portal, 30 Chinese mobile service providers, including Hurray and Sohu, have been punished for various irregular operations in recent weeks in Shandong.
The website reported that these 30 service providers are involved in irregular service billing, fake promotions, irregular operation of short message order services, non-standard pricing, and confusing [...]


Gome’s Affiliate Involved In Bribery

March 2nd, 2010

Beijing No. 2 Secondary Court has issued an indictment to Gome Electrical Appliance Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese electronics retailer Gome, which has allegedly been involved in a bribery scandal.
According to the indictment, GEAC was involved in part of a bribery plan that was worth totally CNY4.56 billion between 2006 and 2008 when Huang [...]


Ministry Of Culture Sets Standards For Establishing Chinese Internet Cafes

February 25th, 2010

China’s Ministry of Culture has just promulgated a new rule to strengthen the management of netcafes and to promote the development of netcafe enterprises.
According to the new rule, which is called “Guidelines on the Registration and Identification of Netcafe Enterprises in China”, companies that want to be registered as a national chain netcafe must meet [...]


China To Resume Personal Website Domain Name Registrations

February 24th, 2010

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued to domain name registrars a circular which asks further work to be done to verify the registration information of websites in the coming weeks.
MIIT issued a circular and initiated a government-led crackdown on pornographic content in December 2009 when it asked domain name service providers to [...]


Initiative Launched For Parents To Supervise Online Games In China

February 16th, 2010

According to ifeng.com, an initiative has been launched in China to enable parents to supervise computer games that their children play.
The first batch of six online game operators who joined the initiative are Wanmei.com, Tencent, Shanda, Netease, Changyou and Giant Interactive. As initiators of the self-discipline program, the parties will arrange a special webpage on [...]


NetEase Gains Chinese Government Approval To Operate Online Game

February 13th, 2010

Chinese Internet media company NetEase.com Inc. now has approval to run its World of Warcraftmore….


McAfee Issues Internet Security Report As China Closes Hacker Gang

February 9th, 2010

McAfee’s “Q4 Threats Report”, issued today, shows that China is not the sole origin formore….


Chinese Internet Video Rivals Join Forces On Copyright Issues

February 5th, 2010

According to local media reports, rival Chinese video websites Youku.com and Tudou.com have formed anmore….


Cloud Computing Center Planned In Taiwan

February 1st, 2010

Chunghwa Telecom, Trend Micro, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry [...]