The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's latest list of 125 recommended communications industry standards has been released in China.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has announced that it will help Pakistan Telecommunications, the largest comprehensive telecom operator in Pakistan, update its 3G commercial network.

Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei, revealed in a new year's greeting letter to employees that the company realized sales of over USD30 billion in 2009, with sales income of USD21.5 billion.

According to China Communications Standards Association, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a unified standard for earphone interfaces of mobile phones and the standard will be officially implemented from September 1, 2009.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan's economic agencies will begin in July 2009 to discuss possibilities to lift limits on Taiwanese companies' investments in mainland China's high-end semiconductor industry.

Promoted and drafted by Shanghai Information Service Association, China's first major online game service local standards have been published in Shanghai, with the aim of offering management regulations to the Chinese online game market and protecting the interests of both online game users and game companies.

China's encryption standards have a new international convert, as Sybase has succumbed to following the Chinese government's edicts on data security and has duly received a security certificate from the Chinese government.

Chinese telecommunications operator China Mobile has announced that the company has invested NTD17.77 billion, which is about CNY3.6 billion, in acquiring a 12% stake in the Taiwan-based telecommunications company Far Eastone Telecommunications.

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team Mobile phone users in India are eyeing April 15, 2009, the day when as many as 25 million of their China-made mobile phones will die, with apprehension and concern.

China's Ministry of Culture has issued an order for the Chinese online game operator Giant Interactive (GA) to make rectifications in its free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game Giant Online.

Telefonica, a leading telecommunications operator in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world, says it will spend EUR1 billion on outsourcing in China and continue to increase its outsourcing in the country until it accounts for 10% of its total global outsourcing.

Microsoft (MSFT) is expanding the range of document formats supported in its Office productivity suite.

News from the China Beijing International High-Tech Expo is that China's Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing has passed a significant vote of the International Electrotechnical Commission and will formally become an international 3C standard.

Beijing Jiahua Chuangxin Technology Co., Ltd, a designated distributor of Oracle (ORCL) China, has filed a lawsuit against Oracle China, accusing the company of adopting dual standards in intellectual property rights protection in China.

The High Performance Computer Standardization Committee of the Chinese Electronics Standardization Association and the China Electronic Standardization Institute have jointly set up a high performance computer energy saving review lab in Shanghai to carry out testing and certification on the energy consumption of relevant electronics products.