China’s television watchdog is initiating a fresh round of crackdowns on sex-related and illegal TV commercials, warning it might go as far as revoking broadcasting licenses for those companies acting out of line.
According to a circular posted Saturday on the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) website, all commercials for drugs, medical equipment [...]
Baidu Inc, owner of China’s most popular Internet search engine, said its clients became more confident about the company after biggest rival Google Inc indicated it may end its operations in the country.
“What we have seen is that our customers’ confidence in Baidu is certainly higher,” CEO Robin Li said yesterday in response to an [...]
China will strive to integrate its regional cable TV operators and work out a draft plan of its national cablevision network firm which is considered an uphill task due to regulatory overlap, analysts said.
China will push to integrate its telecom, TV broadcasting and Internet systems on a trial phrase from 2010 to 2012, according to [...]
Sohu.com Inc, the Chinese Internet company that separately listed its online-games unit last year, said profit fell 43 percent, missing analysts’ estimates, after the spinoff cut earnings from the subsidiary.
Fourth-quarter net income declined to $32.3 million, or 76 cents a share, from $56.6 million, or $1.45, a year earlier, Sohu said in a statement today. [...]
World’s largest Chinese search engine Baidu.com signed Monday an agreement with Shenzhen city government to build its international headquarters in this boomtown of southern Guangdong province.
The entrance of Baidu.com will boost Shenzhen’s development and enhance Baidu’s influence in southern China and even southeastern Asia, said Wang Rong, Shenzhen’s acting mayor, at the signing ceremony.
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China has cracked down on 109 cases of Internet pornography on overseas servers or websites and seized 152 suspects, said the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Friday.
Among these cases, a total of 51 cases are criminal ones with 83 criminal suspects arrested, the MPS said.
The MPS also released further information on four typical cases.
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