Beijing's municipal government has set aside 220 hectares of land in Xuanwu district for the development of a business district catering for media organisations. Beijing International Media Boulevard would provide advanced network communication systems to help media organisations with news gathering and transmission and would also include residential accommodation, hotels, museums and entertainment facilities. The […]
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China Telecom, the country's principal fixed-line operator, has launched a successful mobile telephone service in the southern city of Shenzhen, despite not yet being granted a mobile licence by its owner, the Ministry of Information Industry. The Financial Times reported that the CDMA service had attracted 70,000 subscribers in its initial months of operation. Although […]
Sony, the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant, said it will invest about US$100m over the next three years in movie production in China. In 2002, the company's Hong Kong-based Columbia Pictures Asia released Big Shot's Funeral, starring Donald Sutherland, which made US$4.3m in its first month, setting a Chinese box-office record for a domestically produced […]
The Chinese government has thrown its weight behind domestically developed third generation mobile phone technology, said the Financial Times. It is providing funds for the development of the TD-SCDMA technology that is being developed jointly by the stateowned Datang Telecom of Siemen Germany. It is also earmarking a dedicated radio spectrum for 3G services and […]
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Adam's Palace
One of the China trade's bestknown players, Jardines chief China rep Adam Williams, has just published his first novel, The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. It is an adventure yarn set during the Boxer Rebellion when a deadly mixture of Manchu decadence, western arrogance, peasant superstition and Christian holier-than-thouness led to an uprising aimed at killing […]