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 software and online games company Kingsoft has announced that its Kingsoft Duba has reached cooperation with Thai online game operator Asiasoft, and the two parties will jointly launch a Thai-language edition of Kingsoft Duba.

Chinese online game developer and publisher Shanda Games Limited announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009, and stated net revenues increased 39% year-over-year and 5% quarter-over-quarter to a record high of CNY1.33 billion.

Chinese Internet company NetEase.com Inc. announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, and showed large annualized and sequential revenue increases.

9you.com, one of the top ten online games operators in China, said that it will operate ten new computer games in 2010.

According to ifeng.com, an initiative has been launched in China to enable parents to supervise computer games that their children play.

Chinese Internet media company NetEase.com Inc. now has approval to run its World of Warcraft expansion game in China.

Chinese online game operator 9you.com has announced that the company has gained an Information Network Communicated Audio-Video Program License, with the license number of 0910541, enabling it to operate online video businesses in China.

Chinese online media company Sohu.com Inc.'s revenues rose 12% year-on-year in the last quarter, according to its newly-reported unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

Chinese online game developer Changyou.com Limited today named a new president and announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

Chinese software and game developer Kingsoft has established a new business department and the company has launched a new online game client platform service.

Shanda Games Limited announced over the weekend that Diana Li has resigned as the company's chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors to pursue other interests.

China's Ministry of Culture has published "2009 China Online Game Market White Paper", which reviews the general development and management of China's online game industry in 2009 and reveals authoritative data for the industry.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm Linktone Ltd. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Letang Game Limited.

Two of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited's subsidiaries have been busy this week doing an acquisition and hiring a new executive, respectively.