Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has formally launched a public welfare channel and a public welfare fund account.

China Mobile Charity Foundation, the first fundraising foundation within China's telecommunications industry, has been unveiled in Beijing.

Chinese wireless value-added services company Hurray (HRAY) just announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 and said unsurprisingly that total revenues were only USD12.8 million, a decline of 3.7% quarter-over-quarter and 12.4% year-over-year.

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.

CharityInChina.org is working with XZList to promote the use of email list management to non-governmental organizations and charities operating in Greater China.

Following a 7.8 Richter scale earthquake that hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in southwest China on May 12, a number of Chinese technology companies, including Tencent and Rising, have each lent their own support to the disaster relief by making donations.

China Mobile (CHL) has just released its CSR Report 2007, detailing the company's corporate social responsibility activities in China last year.