Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce company and Baidu, the leading Chinese language internet search engine, have launched a massive new online shopping mall in China. Named Lekutian, it is believed to be the largest B2B2C (Business to Business to Consumer) online shopping mall in China. In January, Rakuten and Baidu announced their intention to jointly invest […]
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China Unicom (Europe), a UK-based wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom (Hong Kong), the country’s No. 2 mobile carrier, is reportedly planning to buy a 75% stake in Nigerian Telecommunications, or Nitel, for US$2.5 billion. China Unicom said that apart from its investment, it will provide technology solutions and operations management to Nitel. The investment will […]
Wang Yong, deputy GM of mobile broadband at Chinese telecom equipment and handset vendor ZTE, announced that domestic sales of its tablet PCs will begin somewhere around the end of the year. When the rollout is completed there will be five or six models. Wang said ZTE has already received orders from Europe and the […]
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 […]