Following repeated press reports of fraudulent online marketing, CCTV reports it now has evidence that Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) is engaged in dubious activities.

From this month on, China's Ministry of Information Industry and National Development and Reform Commission will work to completely clean up the existing telecom cost package services and will publish the final results at the end of October.

C-COM Satellite Systems has established a service and support center in Beijing.

Shanghai eWorldChina Information Technologies and Shanghai Welfare Lottery Center have signed a sales agent agreement for China's official online Welfare Lottery.

PacificNet (PACT.PK) has opened a product development and R&D center in Zhuhai to support its game business in Macau.

MSN has added Marry5.com, a dating website in China, as its newest channel partner.

Entropia Universe has been chosen by the Beijing Municipal People's Government supported online entertainment company Cyber Recreation Development to create a cash-based virtual economy for China.

Chinese local media reports that in the unfinished bribery probe against Siemens happening in Europe, some Chinese companies and individuals have been included in the list of bribery.

The Internet Society of China has released a discussion draft guideline regulation on the construction of enterprise websites, but this regulation is not yet compulsory.

An internet user surnamed Bai has told local media that online travel service provider Ctrip.com not only loses users' accumulative mileage records, but also refuses to take responsibility for this.

According to a new law passed in Hong Kong, email spam senders in the region can face a huge fine and long term imprisonment.

Blue Bamboo, a China-based manufacturer and designer of POS terminals and transaction peripherals, says that its H50 terminal has been certified under China UnionPay, which formulates operational regulations and technical standards for cross-bank card transactions nationwide in China.

ASAP Software and Digital China have formed an alliance for providing services for the acquisition and management of software licenses, hardware and IT services to global accounts across North America, China, Australia, and Europe.

Beijing Online News and Information Panel has issued a warning in its third report to twelve dating websites, criticizing them for publishing sex trade information on their respective websites and ordering them to rectify their business before June 1.

Tom Eachnet will launch a new C2C platform in July 2007 and by that time it will move all the goods of eBay Eachnet users to the new platform, which will bear a new domain name, and completely separate the C2C business from eBay China's platform.