Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority is inviting companies to participate in the auction of radio spectrum in the 850 MHz, 900 MHz and 2 GHz bands for the provision of public mobile telecommunications services in Hong Kong.

Taiwan plans to issue two mobile television licenses in October 2010 and the capital threshold for applicants is reportedly about NTD1 billion.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has invited applications from existing mobile network operators to participate in the online auction of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, which is scheduled to be held in June 2009.

Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has announced plans to join forces with Zhejiang Provincial Department for Industry and Commerce to begin a pilot program for the online sale of healthcare food and products within Zhejiang province.

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced that the auction of radio spectrum in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands has been completed, with Genius Brand, CSL, and China Mobile as big winners bidding a total of HKD1.5 billion.

Chinese Internet auction and e-commerce website Taobao.com has announced that its trade value in 2008 reached CNY99.96 billion, making it one of the largest comprehensive shopping platforms in China.

The market research company IDC has published a white paper about China's e-commerce industry, and it states the trade volume of China's e-commerce increased by about 20% in the year 2008, forming a big contrast with the macroeconomic downturn.

Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has started construction of its new headquarters, Taobao City in the Yuhang district of Hangzhou, and the project will cost about CNY1.36 billion. Taobao City is planned as the new office building of Taobao.com, which is a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The construction of the Taobao City will [...]

Chinese third-party Internet payment platform Alipay has announced that it will start to collect a certain proportion of service charges from users with large-scale trading and the new policy will take effect from January 1, 2009.

Hong Kong is boosting its wireless broadband services with an invitation for applications for bidding on its new radio spectrum services.

Maxtv.cn, the only authorized online general agent of Ruyan, says it will sue the Chinese online auction website Taobao for illegally facilitating the sale of Ruyan's products.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has announced that the group will consolidate its two companies, Taobao.com and Alimama.com.

Lenovo (LNVGY) can't wait to cash-in on its Olympics sponsorship and has announced the final Internet charity auction of limited-edition notebook PCs inspired by the Lenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch to benefit organizations in China.

Indefatigable Jack Ma, chairman of the board of Alibaba Group, announced at the fifth anniversary of Taobao.com that the group will invest another CNY2 billion in Taobao.com's Internet auction services in China.

Chinese online auction firm eBay Eachnet says it has been fully connected to eBay's (EBAY) main transaction platform in the United States and this will enable Chinese online shoppers to directly purchase goods from the U.S. via Eachnet.