Coach, a leading American designer and maker of luxury lifestyle handbags and accessories, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Taobao.com, the Chinese Internet shopping subsidiary of Alibaba Group, to prevent the sale of fake Coach products on this Chinese website.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has published a report, stating that by December 31, 2010, the company had opened 3G international roaming and short message services in collaboration with 195 operators in 98 countries and regions.

Beijing, China (October 21, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts today unveiled its completely restructured and enhanced signature Golden Circle (GC) recognition and award programme. Golden Circle is the only international loyalty programme that allows both staying and non-staying guests to earn and redeem Golden Circle Awards Points (GC Awards). Since its inception in [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has launched a new international roaming customer service hotline for its users who travel overseas.

Tuniu.com's Guangdong branch has been unveiled in Shenzhen to help the online travel company expand its business in China's southern regions.

Chinese third-party Internet payment platform Alipay.com has inked a cooperation deal with the international credit card organization MasterCard, to officially launch payment services with MasterCard in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Chinese mainland online game developer and operator Giant Interactive Group has confirmed that it has authorized Taiwan-based King Rex Hi Media to operate its first webgame Gold Land in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan from late April 2010.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission have jointly issued a notice for simplifying fees for long-distance mobile phone calls, and the have decided to implement a single fee method to reduce the fee level.

Following the cancellation of incoming call fees for some of its users from October 1, 2009, China Telecom has announced new policies to reduce the roaming fees for its CDMA users visiting Taiwan and Macau from November 1, 2009.

Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba has announced that it has set up a partnership with Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute to jointly promote the e-commerce business among small and medium-sized enterprises in Macau.

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced that starting from October 1, 2009, users of China Telecom's three eSurfing packages will be free from charges of incoming calls in mainland China, with exceptions of calls from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau.

Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited has announced the successful spin-off and listing of the company's Hong Kong and Macau operations on the main board of the Hong Kong stock exchange.

According to the latest statistics published by China's General Administration of Press and Publication, China's Internet game publication industry achieved actual sales of CNY18.38 billion in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 76.6%, and it brought CNY47.84 billion direct income to China's telecommunications and technology industries.

Hong Kong's Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, which has 60 hotels throughout China and around the world, says the global financial crisis has pushed it to now offer all guests free Internet services.

China Unicom has published its operating statistics for November 2008, which state the number of its GSM mobile phone users increased by 996,000 during the month, reaching an accumulated number of 133 million users.