Chinese B2C e-commerce website 360buy.com has announced plans to offer interest-free housing and car loans to employees, and the total amount available will reach several hundred million Renminbi.

China Dongxiang has published a report, stating that it will invest USD100 million in the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba via its wholly-owned subsidiary.

U.S. Internet giant IAC/InterActiveCorp's marriage website Match.com has reportedly acquired a 20% stake in Zhenai.com, a marriage website in China.

The Chinese entertainment company Giant will soon launch the mobile phone version of its online game, ZT Online.

Chinese Internet company Giant Interactive Group has confirmed a new internal reform of its marketing department will become an independent company named Juxin Network.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc. announced its unaudited financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc. announced its unaudited financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2010.

Following the cooperation with Taiwan-based King Rex Hi Media for the operation of Gold Land in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, the Chinese mainland online game developer and operator Giant Interactive Group has recently reached agreements with six other companies to jointly operate this webgame on Chinese mainland.

Chinese mainland online game developer and operator Giant Interactive Group has confirmed that it has authorized Taiwan-based King Rex Hi Media to operate its first webgame Gold Land in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan from late April 2010.

According to ifeng.com, an initiative has been launched in China to enable parents to supervise computer games that their children play.

Li Yu, CEO of the Chinese online game operator Shanda, has confirmed that the company and Kingsoft will jointly operate the online game JX3 Online developed by Kingsoft.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc. has signed an agreement with Russia's Astrum Nival LLC to grant a license to Astrum Nival to operate ZT Online in the Russian Federation and other Russian speaking territories.

Taking advantage of the weeklong national holiday in China, online game development company Giant Interactive Group Inc. has tried to sneak through a press release that should cause alarm for investors.

Chinese online game developer and entertainment operator Giant Interactive Group has announced that it has acquired a 51% in Xuelang Software in Hangzhou as a part of its "Winning in Giant" program.

Proving that hype surrounds the maxim that online game companies can mount profit offensives in even the worst economic times, Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group Inc. has reported a sequential profit drop of 20.1% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

After more than one year of preparation, Chinese social networking service provider 51.com has announced the official launch of its self-developed game platform, Game.51.com.

GigaMedia Limited is bringing Korea's Luna Online to mainland China via an exclusive licensing arrangement.

Chinese online game operator Giant Interactive Group has announced plans to start an overall salary increase, in which the average increase rate of all employees is 14% and the highest can reach 30%.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive Group (GA) has created a program today to incubate developers in China who are focused on creating marketable games.

China's Ministry of Culture has issued an order for the Chinese online game operator Giant Interactive (GA) to make rectifications in its free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game Giant Online.

According to the 2008 Hurun China IT Rich List published on November 26, 2008 in Hangzhou, Li Yanhong "Robin", CEO of the Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU), topped the list with net worth of CNY13 billion, followed by founder of Tencent Ma Huateng and founder and CEO of NetEase (NTES) Ding Lei with CNY12.5 [...]

The Chinese social networking services website 51.com.com is planning to launch a game platform in the coming days and it will also be the first time for the website to tap the game industry since it gained a huge investment from China's leading online game company Giant Interactive Group.

Chinese online game company Giant Interactive (GA) has announced that its board of directors has approved a share repurchase program.

Alipay, one of China's biggest independent third-party Internet payment platforms, has achieved a strategic cooperation with the online game operator Giant Interactive to enhance Giant's online payment system.

To retain Shanghai's leading position in China's computer games industry and strengthen self-discipline and legal construction of the industry, Shanghai has formally initiated the drafting of Shanghai Municipal Network Games Industry Service Standard, which will be the first of its kind in China, and is expected to be unveiled by the end of this year.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive's (GA) unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 show net revenue was CNY471.6 million, an increase of 48.7% over the first quarter 2007 and an increase of 8.5% over the fourth quarter 2007.

Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive (GA) has opened a new research and development facility in Chengdu to specialize in 3D graphics engines and technologies.

Chinese game development firm Giant Interactive (GA) announced its partnership with Huawei Technologies to research server platforms for online game applications.

Giant Interactive Group (GA) has secured an exclusive license to operate Empire of Sports, a new sports-based massively multiplayer online role playing game, until September 15, 2011.

By Perry Wu While many media outlets publish their annual re-cap lists a couple weeks before the end of the year, I like the idea of waiting for the year to end, then digesting it, before creating a list.