Baidu.com ( BIDU ) has reached an agreement with 16 Chinese domestic recording companies who have authorized Baidu to provide free MP3 downloading of the songs of about 100 performers.

Four national banks of China are going to soon adopt a third-party digital certification for their online banking system despite already having their own certification systems in place.

Tian Jian, general manager of Yahoo! ( YHOO ) China's search service, says that Yahoo has started consultations with the top management of the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on expanding the Chinese online search engine sector.

A representative of the Mobile Phone Alliance in China, which was launched at the end of October by Skyworth, Gold Home, Malata and Daxian, has told the local media that the four parties will meet once again in Shenzhen on

Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) has appointed Thomas Lam as President, China Operations. Lam will be based in Beijing and report to Owen Chan, President, Asia Pacific Operations, Cisco Systems.

Syniverse ( SVR ) has been awarded a contract with China Unicom Macau, a subsidiary of the world's second largest CDMA wireless operator.

China Education Television (CETV) will use SkyStream's media delivery platforms to expand video content distribution, rural Internet service and distance-learning programs to remote areas.

China's Ministry of Public Security has published a short list of the ten most serious intellectual property rights infringement cases for 2005.

Measures such as all-women shortlists are the only way for political parties to increase their female representation in parliament, a new report has claimed. Published on Thursday, the Hansard Society's 'Women at the top 2005' report said that "equality guarantees"

Seems like the disaffected youth of Europe all wanna get in on the French car-destroying action. During a blackout in Poole, England which affected 75,000 power customers, hoodlums, hooligans and other assorted miscreants teamed up to vandalize 57 cars and

MUDVAYNE have joined the lineup for the Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand, which begins January 20 in Auckland. Also scheduled to appear are THE MARS VOLTA , FRANZ FERDINAND , THE WHITE STRIPES , and

Note: Vice president's speech to begin at 7-pm WASHINGTON (AP) _ It's Vice President Dick Cheney's turn at bat.He's the latest official taking swings at Democrats who have...

Flow: Urban Dance Uprising brings street cred to rhythm games with B-boy-influenced moves, hip hop soundtrack.

The sale comes amid uncertainty over whether China might need to buy heavily in international markets to cover a position taken by a government metals trader, an expectation that has helped push prices to all-time highs.

She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection November 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work

Research shows that Carvedilol, a cardiovascular drug, could be useful in reducing cardiac death in high risk patients with prior myocardial infarction and/or heart failure and also in reducing the incidence and/or preventing the occurrence of atrial fibrillation in a

Scientists from Imperial College London have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells into cartilage cells, offering encouragement that replacement cartilage could one day be grown for transplantation.

If the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva two years ago was one of vision, the second phase in Tunis, Tunisia, should be one of action. That was the key message in a speech given Wednesday

Online newspapers saw growth of 11% in unique visitors between October 2004 and October 2005 according to Nielsen//NetRatings, a pace faster than the 3% growth of active users on the entire Net.