China Telecom and France Telecom-Orange have signed in Beijing a strategic partnership framework agreement which aims to improve the two parties' service capacity in the global market.

China Network Television, the national network television broadcasting organization of China with ties to CCTV, has been formally launched under the domain name of CNTV.cn.

Chinese online game developer and operator NetDragon Websoft has announced that it has launched the open beta testing for the Arabic version of its online game "Conquer Online".

During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years.

China Great Wall Computer Group Corporation and the Algerian broadband network operator EEPAD have reached an agreement to jointly invest USD4 million to set up a manufacturing joint venture in Algeria.

The Joint Innovation Lab established by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help accelerate the uptake of innovative mobile technologies on a mass-market scale has a new member: Verizon Wireless.

According to the latest sales report released by China's TV maker TCL Group, in October 2008, the company sold 421,000 LCD TVs, a year-on-year increase of 184.7%.

Having already established production bases in South Africa, France, Hungary and Algeria, Chinese home electronics manufacturer Hisense has just built its newest production base in Egypt.

The Chinese telecom equipment giant ZTE has signed an exclusive contract with the Mauritanian telecom operator Chinguitel to build the first 2.5 GHz mobile WiMAX commercial network in the country, which is also the first major WiMAX commercial network across the entire African continent.

The Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE has signed a USD400 million agreement with the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation to provide 15 million wireless mobile networks in Ethiopia.

A new report from IDC states worldwide PC shipments struggled to meet expectations in the third quarter of 2008, with companies like China's Lenovo struggling as spending slowed.

ZTE Corporation, China's leading telecom equipment manufacturer, has announced that its WiMAX 16e system gained the Wave2 qualification certification issued by the WiMAX Forum.

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.

China-based CDC Corporation's (CHINA) CDC Software has signed an agreement with Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings where Rifle-Shot will act as the exclusive value-added reseller of CDC Software's process manufacturing industry solutions throughout Africa, especially in the rapidly-growing South Africa market.

China Mobile (CHL) has chosen Sybase 365 to extend its international SMS connectivity to an additional 44 countries and more than 130 operators.