Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com has announced several new appointments and published the list of its new management team.

Chinese portal and online game provider NetEase.com has announced plans to recruit about 20 editors for its game channel, which is expected to be reopened after closed for over two years.

Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com has reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009, showing total revenues of USD115.7 million, up 36% year-on-year.

Chinese Internet company NetEase.com is reportedly planning to separate its Web portal business, which includes advertising and wireless services, from its online game business, and the company may separately list its portal business.

Proving once again that AOL is hapless when trying to operate outside its safe confines of the United States, America Online China is shutting its doors.

Google China has announced that it has renewed its previous contract signed in January 2007 with China Mobile to continue to provide mobile search support to China Mobile's Monternet.

According to an insider, China's NetEase.com is planning to upgrade its website department to a business department, which will have its independent content, sales, marketing, and administrative systems.

Chinese website portal NetEase.com has announced that its chief operating officer, Dong Ruibao, has resigned for personal reasons, effective from March 12, 2009.

William Ding, founder of the Chinese Internet portal NetEase, says the company will invest at last CNY10 million to set up a pig farm in Zhejiang province and establish a website to connect the Internet industry with agricultural pursuits.

According to an insider from the Chinese Internet application technology and service provider Zhongsou.com, the company has signed a cooperative agreement with Apabi.cn, a subsidiary of the Founder Group, to set up a joint venture.

Chinese Internet portal NetEase.com (NTES) has released its 2008 China Internet Communication Report which summarizes the hot topics being searched and discussed on the Internet and Chinese blogosphere.

Rumors are swirling in Chinese media today that Gong Yu, chief operating officer for the Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com (SOHU), will soon depart from his position.

Chinese Internet portal and online game firm NetEase.com (NTES) says its total revenues grew as it announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008.

Riding high on revenue generated from the recent Olympics in Beijing, Chinese website portal Sohu.com (SOHU) has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 and says advertising revenues were USD51.1 million, up 62% year-on-year and 18% quarter-on-quarter.

The Chinese portal NetEase.com (NTES) states that because of a revamping of the company's services, the Internet firm will suspend the operation of its chat rooms starting November 1, 2008.