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GAPP Reasserts Role in Online Game Approval

17173.com, 10/10/09

China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), along with the National Copyright Administration of the People's Republic of China (NCAC) and the working group office of the national "Sweeping away Pornography and Cracking down on Illegal Publications" campaign, have issued a notice on strengthening the implementation of online game pre-approval and imported online game supervision. Read More...

Taobao Search Page in Internal Testing

Sina Tech, 10/10/09

An industry source has revealed that Chinese online B2C and C2C e-commerce site Taobao is currently conducting internal tests on a new search page, http://search.taobao.com. Read More...

Tencent to Invest in Search Engine Development

Sina Tech, 10/05/09

Xiong Minghua, co-CTO of Chinese internet company Tencent (0700.HK), has said that the company plans to increase investment in its search engine business. Read More...

Rumor: Tencent to Buy Out SNS Game Happy Farm

Sohu IT, 10/12/09

An industry source has revealed that Chinese internet value-added services provider Tencent (0700.HK) has reached an agreement with SNS game developer Five Minutes to acquire its popular SNS game "Happy Farm" for a one-time payment rumored to be in the millions of Chinese yuan. Read More...

China Starts Developing National Online TV Station

Jiefang Daily, 10/12/09

Work on China's new national online TV station has begun in earnest, with programming content coming from the national television station CCTV as well as from provincial-level television stations. Read More...

Shanghai Government to Nurture Online A/V Industry

Shanghai Securities News, 10/12/09

Wang Wei, deputy minister of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and Television, said yesterday that the city aims to nurture 2-3 local online audiovisual firms to become domestically listed companies with a market capitalization between RMB 3-5 bln by 2012. Read More...