Zhu Guang, senior director for Lenovo (LNVGY) Greater China's public relations and promotions, will depart from his position at the end of December 2008.

Chinese digital media and advertising company Focus Media (FMCN) will sell its subsidiary Sports Media to its competitor Goodmedia.

There is a financial crisis afoot, Chinese mobile value-added services firms are struggling, but at least one analyst believes that companies will continue to reap big profits.

Alipay, one of China's largest third-party online payment platforms and a subsidiary of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group, has launched a new service to offer one-stop payments for payment of public utilities.

Digital China, a Chinese IT service provider, has launched its B2C website xgou.com, providing IT, communications and consumer electronics products.

The People's Government of Hebei Province and China Netcom signed a strategic cooperative agreement at Bailou Hotel, Shijiazhuang this week.

China Mobile's (CHL) Sichuan branch has completed the mobile communications coverage in 21 cities, 451 towns and 4389 villages that were affected by the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake along with the 492 temporal residences and China Mobile will invest about CNY5.6 billion for post-disaster reconstruction.

China Unicom (CHU) has announced a timetable and the cost involved for the recovery of its communications services after the May 12 Sichuan earthquake.

China Mobile has set up an internet cafe on Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

China Mobile has fulfilled its commitment to providing 3G service for the Beijing Olympic Games by delivering 15000 Samsung TD-SCDMA mobile phones and related services to the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

Chinese mobile phone users will be able to backup or re-save their address list with the unification of the mobile phone data format and exchange file format unveiled by China's Ministry of Information Industry.

News from General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China is that AQSIQ and the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China have jointly issued a notice asking that 13 types of information security products under eight categories undergo a mandatory certification.

C-COM Satellite has delivered a number of iNetVu Mobile systems to China SATNET Communications Technology to be deployed by China Netcom for the 2008 Olympic Games.