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China Fines Its First Spammer
News The Chinese Government has fined a company 5,000 yuan renminbi (£331) for sending out spam. If they fail to do this they can be fined up to 30,000 yuan (£1,989). It is the first time the Chinese Government has penalised a company for sending junk...
[August 23, 2006, 8:50]
Microsoft Buys Into Chinese Electronics Firm
News Microsoft will pay 94 million yuan (£6.2m) for 15 million new shares of the second-biggest Chinese television maker. Changhong's shares jumped by their 10 percent daily limit on 14 June to an 11-day high of 9.93 yuan (65.7p).
[June 18, 2007, 13:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My grasp of international finance is not quite up to Treasury standards, and you’ll have to wait a while if you’re expecting me to concoct a cogent explanation of how unpegging the yuan from the dollar will affect the bond market.
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
Chinese Lawyer To Take Symantec To Court Over XP File Deletion
Blog According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the Hongmian Law Firm in southern Guangdong Province, is seeking 1,644 yuan (£108) to compensate for losses caused when his computer was allegedly paralyzed on the evening of May 18 due to a...
[June 4, 2007, 15:19]
Microsoft Proposes Chinese Piracy Amnesty
News As part of a two-month promotion that started in February, the company is offering a Chinese version of Windows XP Home Edition and Professional Edition at 786 yuan (£50), and 1,270 yuan, respectively.
[March 4, 2005, 8:45]
Didn't We Have A Lovely Time, The Day We Went To Suzho
Blog Unfortunately, while picking up his 2 yuan (around 14p) bottle of purity, said sensible member noticed 100ml green bottles of 56% Chinese rice spirit for 3 yuan (yes, that's around 21p). We all survived - which is more than can be said for the...
[April 1, 2008, 20:38]
China Mobile CEO's Rules Of Thumb
News That means 10 million yuan (£670,000) just for one song. And every download costs two yuan (25 cents). I first met Wang Jianzhou in 1983, when I was teaching at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou -- one of the key science and technology universities...
[May 11, 2006, 14:55]
Shanghai IDF: That Difficult First Day...
Blog One of the fun shops was a state tobacconist, which had a huge range of fags carefully displayed under glass counters: the locals spent ages peering carefully at the varieties (from 2 yuan per pack to 300: a yuan is worth around seven pence...
[March 30, 2008, 19:54]
China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited Achieves Standardization
White Papers With assets of more than 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion) and more than 35,000 employees, China Eastern Airlines Group, which includes China Eastern Airline Co. Ltd (CEA), is a leading force in the Chinese aviation market.
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Fujian Tax Bureau Tightens Information Security With HP Services
White Papers To protect their database, the bureau engaged HP to develop and implement a 30 million yuan system to improve network security. The Fujian Province Local Taxation Bureau stores confidential information of 400,000 taxpayers in the province.
[July 21, 2008, 1:18]
Voyage Century Online
Downloads However, no matter whom they are the loyal descendant of the all-conquering cavalry in Empire of Yuan, the progeny of the trade caravan in the Silk Road or the posterity of Marco Polo and a Chinese Infanta, they all hold a same belief, that is to...
[June 27, 2008, 10:01]
Largest IPv6 Network Launched In China
News China's National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) has set aside 1.4bn yuan (US$169m) to support six next-generation Internet networks, according to People's Daily , China's main daily newspaper. An IPv6-based network linking 25 universities in...
[December 29, 2004, 13:30]
China Sets Up Windows And Linux Labs
News Over the next three years HP will deliver 200m yuan (£13m) worth of software and hardware, including high-end servers and networking connections, to build the Linux laboratory. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have separately reached agreements with...
[March 11, 2004, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At least the punters only stood to lose around four hundred yuan -- thirty quid. Wednesday 8/8/2001 The wild frontier of the Internet has attracted its fair share of shysters -- actually, my email seems to get more than its fair share of the same.
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
ATI Goes Mainstream With New Graphics Technology
News The Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500 Pro and Radeon 9500 will be available through graphics card makers such as Hercules, Gigabyte, Hightech, Wistron and Yuan. ATI has unveiled three new graphics chips aimed at taking its industry-leading Radeon 9700 Pro...
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
Lucent Snags Two Equipment Deals
News Lucent is one of 10 foreign and Chinese companies that will supply China Unicom in the $1.46bn (£1bn/12.1bn yuan) deal. Struggling telecom equipment company, Lucent Technologies, signed two major equipment deals on Tuesday, and saw its stock bounce.
[May 15, 2001, 15:35]
China Advances Home-grown Chips
News China is the largest consumer of DSPs, with about 10bn yuan, or £750m, of the chips sold there last year, but the technology is owned by non-Chinese companies. Chinese scientists say they have developed the country's first mobile phone chip, and...
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
W3C Applauds Microsoft 'reprieve'
News Microsoft said that, on the contrary, the company had won on the most important points, particularly its claim that UC's patent was predated by similar technology by artist and software engineer Perry Pei-Yuan Wei.
[March 3, 2005, 7:15]
China Rejects Western Mpeg Format
News In future, companies selling AV equipment to Chinese consumers will have to pay for the new format's licences, which has been pegged at 1 yuan (7p) per device, much lower than current Mpeg fees. China will have its own audio-video compression...
[August 1, 2003, 10:25]
Techs Bullish About China Market
News A budget box with a Cyrix processor and a DOS operating system sells for $472 (3,800 yuan) while a locally made Pentium 4 computer with a screen runs about $968 (8,000 yuan). The average worker in China makes about 3,000 yuan a month, the...
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
