ELL Technologies Limited has entered into an online distribution agreement with China Distance Education Holdings Limited.

Tencent Holdings Limited announced the launch of their QQ International instant messenger product.

Turismo de Portugal, I.P., the national tourist board of Portugal, announced the launch of a Simplified Chinese version of the country's official tourism website visitportugal.com to coincide with the ongoing Shanghai Expo 2010.

Wipro Technologies has just opened its global delivery center in Chengdu to provide business process outsourcing services to its customers in China and around the world.

Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president in charge of global mobile search business, has announced in Beijing that the company will officially launch its Chinese mobile phone voice search service in the following weeks.

China Mobile Shanghai branch said it will add six new service languages in addition to the current English and Japanese languages of its foreign language call center before the end of 2009.

Xinhuanet.com, the Chinese news website sponsored by the official Xinhua News Agency, has launched a multilingual, multimedia and multi-website news search system.

Chinese online game developer NetDragon Websoft has announced a new licensing agreement with Electronic Arts (ERTS) to develop a 3D massively multi-player online role playing game based on Electronic Arts' Dungeon Keeper line of games.

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.

Do you like Chinese food? Visitors to Beijing now have easy access to translation assistance when ordering food in restaurants, hailing a taxi, or navigating the hutongs of the ancient capital city.