Ctrip.com (CTRP) today announced the company will unconditionally refund its customers impacted by the earthquake and the ensuing tsunamis in South Asia.

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Comtech (COGO.OB) announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a reverse stock split in the range between one-for-two shares and one-for-three shares.

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Four domestic mobile phone businesses have started a joint venture to become the largest mobile phone sales network in the western area of China. These companies are Sichuan Great Wall Telecom Investment Management Company, China Postal Appliance Company, Shaanxi Cell Star Company and Yunnan Dechun Telecom.

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AsiaInfo (ASIA) announced that it has signed a contract with Beijing Mobile, a branch of China Mobile, to implement phase II upgrades to the carrier's Operational Customer Relationship Management (OCRM) system, China's first telecommunications OCRM system.

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By Frank Yu
A cheap writing convention employed by almost every hack columnist is to write an end of year wish list of goodies that they want to own for the New Year. Given the great amount of tech gear out there, I could not resist creating my own list. However, since I own many of the things that I actually lust for (in tech gear at least) I will rehash some of last year's goodies for 2005 now that prices, in some cases have come down a bit. Most important, I'll try to make it relevant for foreigners living in China since we are both flooded with cheap electronics but starved for high quality goodies that old school foreigners living in Hong Kong and Tokyo have such easy access to.

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With Changhong's stock price dropping this week on more news of its bad debt, local media report that some investors plan to sue top management for non-disclosure of the company's poor situation.

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a joint venture between Japan's Hitachi and US-based IBM, has launched a lawsuit in the US against China's Magicstor, accusing Magicstor of violating several Hitachi patents.

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Following its recent purchase of India-based Indiagames, local media are reporting that Tom Online (TOMO) is planning to expand into the overseas market.

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SecuGen Corporation announced that the Chinese Patent Office, under the State Intellectual Property Office, has granted SecuGen a patent for its key fingerprint recognition sensor hardware patent.

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KongZhong (KONG) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to invest $0.5 million in eFriendsNet Entertainment Corporation, an online social networking community in China.

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By Perry Wu
So what were the big China Internet events of 2004? There were so many stories–some published and some yet to be released–that shaped this year's events. In general we can look at four main areas: China Mobile used its strength, the bubble did not burst on China, America started getting serious about Chinese online ventures again, and new rules were made to govern how Chinese netizens interact online.

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The China Finance Certification Authority (CFCA) has established business relations with more than 20 banks, 16 securities dealers and 13 fund operators for the purpose of protecting online usernames and passwords.

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A new type of Chinese inputting method called "Chinese T9″ has received authentication from the China National Language Commission and Language Standard Testing Center.

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Japan's NTT DoCoMo (DCM) announced that it will invest $4 million in newly issued stock for an equity stake in Emcore Technology Inc, which has a Chinese location-based service subsidiary, in January 2005.

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Seven netizen representatives including a Ms. Zhang from Haikou, Dong Ge from Shijiangzhuang and a user whose alias translates as "Wolf Owner" from Ningbo came to 263.net's Beijing offices to ask the website operator to allow the users back into online chatrooms.

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