According to an insider from Kingsoft, the company's online game marketing director Zhou Qian has departed from her position less than one month after her appointment.

With rivals Zhaopin.com and ChinaHR.com posting bad financial results for last year, Chinese online recruitment company 51job Inc. now reveals that its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, show the financial crisis is truly hurting job websites in China.

Seek, Australia's leading recruitment website and the major shareholder of China's Zhaopin.com, has published its first semi-annual financial report in 2009, which states Chinese job website Zhaopin.com made a CNY170 million loss in 2008.

Chinese online game, security and software provider Kingsoft has set up a new workshop named Rainbow, which is the company's seventh game development workshop.

According to the latest financial report of the U.S. recruitment website Monster.com, ChinaHR.com made losses of CNY175 million in 2008.

Online recruitment firm Monster Worldwide (MNST) says it has completed its full acquisition of ChinaHR.com by paying USD174 million in cash for the remaining 55% stake of the Chinese company.

According to Chen Shanzhi, chief engineer of Datang Telecom, Datang Telecom is planning to recruit seven top executives worldwide to be responsible for the company's major businesses.