Chinese social networking website Renren.com has announced that it will launch an interest-free housing scheme, and employees can apply for loans of between CNY200,000 and CNY400,000.

Taiwan Foxconn Technology Group has decided to build a new plant in Jundiai, an inland city in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the assembly of Apple's iPad and iPhone products.

Internet travel services company Ctrip.com International Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011, and stated that revenues rose.

According to the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council of China, starting from January 27, 2011, the import tax of some information technology products, including computers and video camcorders, has been lowered from 20% to 10%.

Foxconn Group has signed a cooperation agreement with the provincial government of Hunan to build two new manufacturing and development bases in Changsha and Hengyang, respectively.

In a move that could affect how companies register overseas, Bermuda has signed a bilateral agreement with China that provides for a full exchange of information on tax matters between the two countries.

Three months after Baidu's announcement of its plan to set up a joint venture with the Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten, the JV was formally founded in Beijing's Tongzhou district last week.

Chinese government departments have jointly issued a notice about key software enterprises included in China's national planning layout for 2009, stating that these enterprises can pay their corporate income tax at the preferential rate of 10%.

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Li Yizhong, head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has disclosed to local media that China will continue to launch many favorable tax policies to support the development of small and medium sized technology enterprises.

Nokia's distributors have submitted a report to China's National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration for Industry and Commerce which alleges how Nokia has been involved in tax evasion and tax fraud in China.

Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited has announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.

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.

Beijing Local Taxation Bureau has published tax collection rules for virtual and online currency transactions, which state that according to whether the individuals can provide income proof or not, they should pay tax at 20% of their profits or 3% of the total value of the transactions.

Chinese online game development firm Perfect World (PWRD) has released its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008.