Singapore (August 29, 2008) /China Newswire/ — Asia Pacific telecom industry members gathered yesterday at the Frost & Sullivan Next Generation Telecom Summit 2008, which was held at the Raffles City Convention Centre. The annual summit hosted close to 300 delegates from Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This exclusive Frost & Sullivan [...]

Historic Chinese garden-style hotel collects top accolade in 'Venice of the East'
Suzhou, China (August 29, 2008) /China Newswire/ — The historic Garden Hotel Suzhou, a former state guest house and private residence of Kuomingtang leader Chiang Kai-shek, has earned 5-star status.
The premier business hotel in China's 'Venice of the East' received the top rating from [...]

Chinese wireless value-added services company Linktone (LTON) is fighting the tide of sinking wireless fortune as its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 show it only recorded revenues of USD19.1 million, compared with USD20.5 million in the first quarter of 2008, and an operating loss was 58% of net revenues, [...]

China Mobile (CHL) has started a semi-secret beta test of its mspaces.net, a Web 2.0 product based on Internet and mobile phone platforms.

Qihoo announced that the company sued Chinese anti-virus company Rising and technology website Zol.com.cn for reputation infringement on August 25 and the case has been accepted by People's Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing.

According to Fan Zhijun, vice president of Chinese electronics retailer Suning, Suning will open Beijing's first major appliances discount outlet store at the Lize Bridge, West 3rd Ring of Beijing on August 30, 2008.

Taiwan-based GigaMedia (GIGM) says it has sold its legacy cable and corporate Internet service provider business to China Network Systems for approximately USD20 million in cash and an additional amount of up to USD5 million upon achievement of certain performance benchmarks during the two-year period following the closing.

While busy completing a CDMA tender, China Telecom's (CHA) CDMA2000 network is also undergoing construction and the initial construction of its CDMA2000 trial network in Guangzhou has recently been completed.

Beijing - Etihad Airways has officially opened a Beijing office in China today
Beijing, China (August 28, 2008) /China Newswire/ — The new office is conveniently located on the 30th floor of the Twin Towers of Yong'anli in Beijing's CBD and a stone's throw away from such city landmarks as the China International Trade Centre and [...]

Airline Introduces Service With Brand New Boeing 777s From October 26, Lie-Flat Seats In Business Class Key Feature Of New Route Doha – Geneva Capacity Increased With Rescheduling Of New York Operations.
Doha, Qatar (August 28, 2008) /China Newswire/ — 25 August 2008, Qatar Airways announced its Doha – New York route will operate non-stop with [...]

The State Administration of Radio Film and Television of China has released the second round certification results of China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting terminals and CMMB terminals produced by six companies finally gained their certificates.

Chinese retailer Dazhong Electronics released a report on its appliances sales during the 2008 Olympic Games and Mao Xiaojun, general manager of Dazhong, said that the company's net profits doubled in the first six months of 2008.

Lingo Media has received USD5,000,000 in financing from Orascom Telecom to be used for ongoing development, maintenance and operation of Lingo Media's Speak2Me web portal and for general working capital purposes in China.

One Network, an American supply chain management software provider, has announced its formal entry into the Chinese market.

NW Tech Capital is increasing its stake in the Zhuhai Jialun Guangcai Chain Drugstore Company by targeting the additional acquisition of proprietary enterprise software currently in use by over 2,000 pharmacies in China.