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China Contains Radiation in Earthquake Disaster Zone

PENGZHOU, China (AP) - Emergency crews worked Friday to secure 15 sources of radiation buried in the rubble of China's devastating earthquake, the government said as it evacuated thousands of survivors downstream from rivers dammed by landslides.Officials precariously balanced their efforts to clean up and rebuild with attempts to house, feed and treat the displaced and injured and search for survivors.One senior official said China faces "a daunting challenge" to prevent environmental contamination from other sources.There has been no leak of radioactive substances into the environment, Wu Xiaoqing, China's vice minister for environmental protection, told reporters in Beijing.He said 50 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the May 12 earthquake in central China, 35 of which had been secured.

International Companies Require China-Specific Patent Strategies

Shanghai, China – May 22, 2008: China, one of the world’s largest and most promising markets, has seen a 20 percent annual increase in patent application filings over the last fifteen years. In 2007, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China received 694,153 patent applications, an increase of 21.1 percent over the previous year. These applications included filings for all three types of patents granted in China: Invention patents (valid for 20 years from the date of filing), Utility Models (valid for 10 years), and Design patents (also valid for 10 years). With regard to invention patents (20 year patents), China is currently third in the world behind the United States and Japan. In its latest study, Evalueserve, a global research and analytics firm, forecasts that if patent filings in China continue to grow at the current r

China airdrop for quake survivors

China is mobilising 30,000 extra troops and 90 more helicopters to help with the rescue operation after Monday's devastating earthquake.

China Kangtai Cactus Biotech Inc. Granted National Invention Patent of China for Use of Cactus to Enhance Immune System

HARBIN, China, May 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Kangtai Cactus Biotech Inc. (the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: CKGT), a vertically integrated grower, developer, manufacturer and marketer of a variety of cactus-based consumer products in China, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Harbin Hainan Kangda Cactus Hygienical Foods Co., Ltd. (the 'Company') has been granted The National Invention Patent of China, a key patent for the nutritional use of cactus to enhance the immune system through its ability to prevent infection and anti-inflammatory diseases. The Company was previously awarded two patents for Cactus Cattle Feed and Cactus Fish Feed by the State Intellectual Property Office and has five patents pending. These include Cactus Poultry Feed, Cactus Pig Feed, Cactus Cattle Feed Additives, Cactus Poultry Feed

iPhone Roundup: China Mobile Clears Hurdle; Canadians Want Cheaper iPhone; Hutchisons Prices

image — China Mobile-iPhone “Hurdleâ€� Cleared: The on again, off again talks to bring iPhone to the world’s largest mobile market is on again. Retuers reports that China Mobile will bring the iPhone to China, after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) relented on its revenue sharing policy. China Mobile spokeswoman Rainie Lei said while the “the biggest hurdleâ€� for the largest Chinese mobile operator has been now been cleared, there were still some “practical issuesâ€� to sort out before the iPhone launched. No timetable has been given, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said before that he hopes to launch the device in China later this year.

Jingwei International Selected by Best Buy China for Multi Year Direct Marketing Contract

SHENZHEN, China, BUSINESS WIRE -- Jingwei International Limited (OTC Bulletin Board: JNGW.OB) ("Jingwei" or the "Company"), one of China's leading direct marketing Companies, today announced that it has been selected by Best Buy China. (Best Buy Co. Inc NYSE: BBY), an industry-leading global consumer electronics retailer, to create, manage and execute direct marketing campaigns throughout China. The contract includes marketing through direct mail and mobile advertising. Jingwei has initiated the campaign for Best Buy in Shanghai and will roll out the campaign throughout China during the term of the contract.

Jingwei International Selected by Best Buy China for Multi Year Direct Marketing Contract

SHENZHEN, China --(Business Wire)-- Jingwei International Limited (OTC Bulletin Board: JNGW.OB) ("Jingwei" or the "Company"), one of China's leading direct marketing Companies, today announced that it has been selected by Best Buy China. (Best Buy Co. Inc NYSE: BBY), an industry-leading global consumer electronics retailer, to create, manage and execute direct marketing campaigns throughout China. The contract includes marketing through direct mail and mobile advertising. Jingwei has initiated the campaign for Best Buy in Shanghai and will roll out the campaign throughout China during the term of the contract.

CCID Consulting: Aigo Has the Largest Sales Volume in China's Digital Photo Frame in 2008Q1

BEIJING, June 2 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), recently released an article on China's digital photo frame market in 2008Q1. With a Rapidly Developing Global Market, China's Digital Photo Frame Industry is Gradually Activated Digital photo frame entered China as a concept product 7 years ago. As a derivative product of digital camera and the Internet, digital photo frame has been accepted by more and more consumers. The demands in global digital photo frame market are exuberant in 2007, and the shipment in 2007 has broken through 10 million sets. But in China, digital photo frame emerged in the market as early as 2006, with an industrial chain started in 2007, and

Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites

thefickler writes "The Chinese Government has issued orders that all entertainment web sites and regular television programming be shut down completely for the next 3 days. Only web sites covering the recent tragic 7.8 magnitude earthquake and television stations broadcasting CCTV earthquake programming will be allowed to remain live." Can anyone with Web access in China confirm this report? From an AP story on the state of communications in the country right now, it appears at least that China is (despite ongoing monitoring) allowing freer than usual communications in the wake of the quake.

China Telecom Americas, Sprint Nextel Collaborate on VPN

China Telecom Americas, an international subsidiary of China Telecom, announced it is collaborating with Sprint Nextel to strengthen its global MPLS VPN capabilities. As part of the collaboration, the two companies will interconnect their data networks, allowing China Telecom Americas' customers to experience the same congestion-free connectivity with security, redundancy and quality of service they have come to expect on the China Telecom Americas' existing MPLS network.

More China quake survivors pulled from rubble as toll rises

CHENGDU, China (AP) — Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.

China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems

ScentCone writes "A spokesman for China's foreign ministry says that — China being the 'developing nation' that it is — he doubts that his country has the sophistication to hack foreign systems. This in response to statements by two congressmen regarding apparent probing by China-based crackers into congressional systems for information about communication between US officials and activists in China."

China quake shakes faith in school buildings

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Search for China quake survivors

A massive search and rescue operation is under way in south-western China after one of the most powerful earthquakes in decades.

CCID Consulting: China's DVD Industry Faces Role Changes

BEIJING, May 23 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), recently released its article on China's DVD industrial role changes. February 19, 2008 has historical significance to the global DVD industry. After years of competition between blue-ray DVD and HD DVD, with Toshiba giving up its support to HD DVD, HD DVD has lost its market. Will Blue-ray DVD standard benefit from the absolute advantage? As a big manufacturing nation, China is only a stander-by in this competition among foreign giants. Facing fierce competition, patent fee's compression, industrial profits' great slide, China's DVD industry faces the challenge of four roles changes.

Google to launch mobile phone advertising service in China

Beijing. May 23. INTERFAX-CHINA - Google is to launch a mobile phone advertising service covering mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, local media reported today. John Liu, vice president for greater China sales of Google, announced in Taipei that Google would partner with Taiwan operators Chunghwa Telecom and Far EasTone to deliver the service in Taiwan, Sohu reported. Liu did not reveal which operator Google will work with to provide this service in mainland China. In April 2006, Google launched its mobile phone advertising service in Japan, cooperating with wireless operators NTT DoCoMo and KDDI. When Mobile phone users search with Google on their mobile devices, advertisements relevant to the keywords will be displayed. -CG

Jingwei International Selected by Best Buy China for Multi Year Direct Marketing Contract

Jingwei International Limited (OTC Bulletin Board: JNGW.OB) ("Jingwei" or the "Company"), one of China's leading direct marketing Companies, announced that it has been selected by Best Buy China. (Best Buy Co. Inc NYSE: BBY), an industry-leading global consumer electronics retailer, to create, manage and execute direct marketing campaigns throughout China. The contract includes marketing through direct mail and mobile advertising. Jingwei has initiated the campaign for Best Buy in Shanghai and will roll out the campaign throughout China during the term of the contract.

TPRF Provides US$15,000 for People Disabled By 8.0 Earthquake in China

The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has donated US$15,000 to the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) to provide food and bottled water for survivors of the 8.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated southwestern China's Sichuan Province on May 12. A respected charity that specializes in attending to the needs and rights of disabled people in China, CDPF was quick to respond to the staggering affects of the earthquake that left almost 70,000 dead and more than 370,000 injured.

China OKs Blogs On Quake

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Quake kills thousands in western China

CHENGDU, China: A powerful earthquake struck Western China on Monday, toppling thousands of homes, factories and offices, trapping students in schools, and killing at least 10,000 people, the country's worst natural disaster in three decades.

China: Quake left 18,000 buried in one city

Chinese rescuers search a collapsed building for survivors in Beichuan, in southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday.

China Quake Toll Nearing 12,000; Thousands Still Trapped in Rubble

The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.

China Lets Bloggers Give Quake News

Many people just want to help, creating online projects to connect quake survivors with friends and family and to spread information about how to donate blood and money and how to adopt children orphaned by the earthquake. Even a local government joined in, turning its Web site into the only source of information from the epicenter.

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