City Partners with State Department on Educational Exchange Initiative in China. Los Angeles, California (December 22, 2011) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Grammy award-winning artist will.i.am and Americans Promoting Study Abroad (APSA) joined students at Mendez Learning Center on Monday to announce a star-studded concert in Beijing on Dec. 17 to build support [...]

Chinese search engine Baidu Inc. signed a digital music distribution deal in China with a company backed by Universal Music, Warner Music, and Sony Music.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com and an e-commerce subsidiary of Alibaba, Taobao.com, have just been placed on the United States Trade Representative's "Notorious Markets List".

China's Ministry of Culture has published a notice stating that it will further clear the Chinese online music market and shut down irregular and illegal music websites.

Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning has opened its first MusicVox musical instrument shop in Pudong, Shanghai, marking the beginning of the retailer's development of ten such shops on the Chinese mainland.

Hurray, a subsidiary of the Chinese media and game company Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, has announced that it will sell its music and wireless value-added businesses to the parent company.

China Network Television and Shanda Interactive Entertainment have reached an overall strategic cooperation and have jointly announced the implementation of resource integration in various sectors, including online video, games, film, literature, music, and other online platforms.

Chinese wireless value-added services company Hurray Holding Company Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Hunan Broadcasting, Film and TV Group to invest CNY600 million to set up a joint venture for movies and television series projects.

A board member has resigned at Chinese wireless value-added services provider Hurray Holding Company Ltd.

Failing in paying fees for the music they use, more than 40 KTV owners in Kunming are facing a lawsuit lodged by China Audio-Video Copyright Association.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced the opening of registration of its social networking service website 139.com and the testing area of its website will be extended from Guangdong to the entire country.

China's A8 Digital Music Holdings Limited has signed a two-year cooperative agreement with HIM International Music Inc. to give A8 the transferable exclusive right to use all the songs in the HIM music bank in the mobile sector in mainland China over the next two years.

Google China has announced plans to cooperate with Chinese music website Top100.cn to provide free and legitimate music search service for Chinese Internet users.

Australia-based Telstra is hoping that it does not repeat the multiple mistakes of other companies venturing into China's overcrowded wireless value-added services market with new investments in two Chinese companies.