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.

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.

China Internet Network Information Center has published the latest report on China's Internet development, which states by the end of 2008, the number of Internet users in China had reached 298 million, a year-on-year increase of 41.9%.

R2G, a Beijing-based intellectual property agency that focuses on the protection of digital music copyright, has inked an agreement with Microsoft (MSFT) to integrate its Wa3.cn into Microsoft's Windows Media Player, providing an online purchase channel for Chinese users who want to buy Chinese and foreign indie records.

China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television has released a report on an audit of the Internet audio-visual services in China and it has ordered ten websites to suspend their online video and Internet music operations.

After Google (GOOG) launched a free genuine music search service, Chinese search engine Baidu (BIDU) has now also taken action to resolve the problems brought by pirated music and the search company ahs launched a channel for newly published songs and music.

Chinese Internet music provider 5fad.com has filed a lawsuit against Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.