Foreign media this week has been citing a report of the United Nations Environment Programme saying that by 2020, computer related e-waste will be four times higher than 2007 and China and India will be the main sources of the poisonous e-waste.

China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.

According to the executives of Lenovo Group, China's leading PC maker, the will shut one of its Indian manufacturing facilities to improve production efficiency.

Max Yang, CEO for Huawei India, is quoted by media that the company plans to produce communications equipment in India and will invest about USD500 million in its Indian research and development center in the next five years.

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Indian state-owned telecom operator BSNL has announced that it canceled the 20 million GSM equipment order that it previously placed to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei.

Nagpur, a city in central India, has started to cut the network access of some mobile phones without an International Mobile Equipment Identity, and Chinese "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are reportedly those that are most affected.

Indian state-owned telecommunications operator BSNL has announced that it has placed a purchase order of mobile communication equipment of 20 million GSM lines for India's southern zone to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and will not call for any new bids.

Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group has announced that its first flagship store in India has been opened in Nehru Place, New Delhi.

The first terrestrial cable transmission system between China and India, jointly developed with India's Reliance Communications and China Telecom, has recently opened.

During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years.

Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a contract with the Turkish telecom operator Turkcell to build a universal mobile telecommunication system network for Byelorussian Telecommunication Network, the operator's subsidiary in Belarus.

Reports in foreign media state Norwegian telecom group Telenor plans to sell shares of its subsidiary in Pakistan and the group is talking with its Chinese counterpart China Mobile about this transaction.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced that is has gained over one million registered users in India.

According to reports in Indian local media, the India government has decided to set stricter quality limits to imported mobile phones, dairy products, and toys and these measures reportedly target China.