China Economic ReviewA Chinese version of the BBC’s children’s programme Teletubbies is to be screened in China from this month. It will be the first foreign show to be shown regularly on primetime CCTV1, which has a regular audience of some 600m viewers. Another children’s favourite originating from the UK was also taken to the China […]
ECM, the UK television distribution company, has won a landmark case against a Chinese television station for screening a show based on a format owned by ECM without its licence, the Financial Times said. Shenzhen Cable station bought the format for Go Binngo – screened in the UK as Lucky Number – from ECM in […]
United Microelectronics Corp of Taiwan has agreed to construct a US$1bn semiconductor factory in Suzhou’s China-Singapore Industrial Park. The park has agreed to give UMC free use of a 40-hectare site and to halve its 15 per cent corporate tax rate for a decade. UMC declined to confirm the story because the Taiwanese government has […]
China’s first contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), has sealed a deal to make high-end memory chips for Fujitsu, Reuters reported. SMIC will make 0.18 micron and 0.22 micron chips used in mobile phones and portable electronics for the leading Japanese chipmaker, which will provide technology. SMIC has signed similar technology pacts with other […]
Australia’s Omni Group has forged a 10- year exclusive contract with a Chinese-based partner Beijing Jeton Yangtze Technology to design and build a nationwide security and alarm system for China, Canberra Times said. The contract includes the design of security and alarm software, the provision of hardware, equipment and loan funds, and the training of […]