Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics, which was accused by the media last year for mistreating Chinese workers who manufactured Apple iPods, is now involved in another labor scandal.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMI), China's biggest chip manufacturer, announced that it would build its headquarters for southern China in Shenzhen and invest US$1.58 billion to build an IC R&D center and two IC chip production lines.

British-based ROK Entertainment Group it's China subsidiary, ROK New Net, has signed a cooperation agreement with Beijing Fone Net Information & Technology Co., Ltd. to provide mobile TV content to China Mobile customers.

Chinese wireless-value added services firm Linktone (LTON) announced that its shareholders have approved a plan to accept investment from Indonesia's PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk.

Following the withdrawal of such Japanese mobile phone manufacturers as Panasonic, Sony, Mitsubishi, Toshiba and NEC, Japan-based mobile phone maker Kyocera has now announced plans to also withdraw from the Chinese mobile phone market.

In cooperation with China Telecom, HP has been offering a "Computer + Broadband" service in areas like Taizhou and Nantong of Jiangsu Province since December 2006, but the company is now being criticized by many Chinese users for the computers' poor performances.

According to the latest report issued by the Anti-Spam Center of the Internet Society of China, each Internet user in China received an average of 330 spam emails in 2007 and these spam emails caused at least CNY18.72 billion in losses to China's national economy.

ZTE has unveiled its Global Finance Shared Service Center in Xi'an and hopes to provide accounting services to external enterprises through this center.

China Netcom (Hong Kong) Operations Limited, an affiliate of China Netcom, says it plans to launch an enterprise global network optimization solution in Hong Kong.

China Telecom (CHA) is reportedly making great efforts in promoting its C Net program. According to a representative from the fixed telecommunications service provider, China Telecom is in frequent contact with the top management of China Unicom while it is also busy recruiting talent of CDMA network.

Chinese electronics retailer Gome has not slowed its acquisitions following the buyout of its competitor Dazhong for CNY3.65 billion last year. The retailing giant has now acquired another local electrical retailer BF Electric Inc. in Datong, Shanxi.

Chinese online travel service provider Ctrip.com (CTRP) has been sued by its competitor Pek Golden Holiday Travel Co., Ltd. for using such exaggerated wordings as "the largest scale" and "a leading travel service provider in China".

BroadWebAsia says it has presented a formal proposal for investment in Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone (LTON).

Following the change of its management structure from the original seven regions to 12 regions in July last year, Chinese electronics retailer Gome has made another major adjustment on its structure by reducing the 12 regions to 6 and transferring the operation and management rights to the lower level of each of the six regions.

U.S.-based security solutions company Cloakware has partnered with China-based MobileTech Limited to provide data safety services.