Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies Project suggest that mobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach a basic knowledge of Chinese language characters which might be particularly helpful in China’s underdeveloped rural areas. Earlier this year, researchers reported that two mobile learning games, inspired […]
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China’s largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group plans to invest heavily in logistics with the aim of building 32 distribution centers in China within the next two years. The plan, in its initial stage, has no detailed investment amount but does not exclude the possibility of setting up a separate company, Reuters reported. The company wants […]
British Telecom is planning to build more service centers in China, the world’s biggest mobile phone market, according to Kevin Taylor, BT’s managing director in the region. In addition, BT will strengthen its partnership with China Unicom (Hong Kong). And BT will meet officials from China Telecom to explore potential cooperation. Taylor said BT wants […]
Myanmar has started work on a railway line from its planned deep-sea port at Kyaukphyu to southwestern China’s Yunnan province. That is right across Myanmar passing Mandalay on the way. The line, which will be completed in 2015, will transport Chinese goods for export and will also be used by China to expand its access […]
Passenger volume on China Eastern Airlines, the country’s third-largest carrier, rose 53.61% year-on-year to 5.62 million in September. Passenger throughput on domestic flights increased 50.85% year-on-year to 4.78 million, while the passenger load factor rose 8.87 percentage points to 78.99%. The airline’s cargo and mail throughput also climbed, up 31.88% year-on-year to 129,700 metric tons […]