UK insurer eager to enter China
BRITAIN-BASED Standard Life Insurance Co, the second largest insurance services provider in the UK market, is waiting to discover whether it will be given a licence to set up a joint venture in China.
Business goes on-line and to chainstores
THIS year Shanghai plans four or five commercial projects in which it expects to co-operate with foreign investors.
Office products' market growth spurs investment
THE US-based Avery Dennison Co, a world leader in the manufacture of pressure sensitive materials and office products, last week announced it was set to increase its investment in the China market by another $40 million.
Global participants sign up for ProPak 2000
PREMIER packaging and processing trade show - ProPak China 2000 - is due to be staged at INTEX Shanghai from May 24-27.
Services to duel for eastern US
DESPITE a 0.9 per cent decrease in the composite freight index for China's export containers, some services have reported brisk business.
Local job network extends to West China
CHINA Human Resources (HR) Market (Shanghai) is to establish its second representative office in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province next month.
Dell launches series of workstations
DELL Computer Co, global computer software maker, on Thursday launched its latest family of Window NT-based Precision Workstations on the Chinese market, the company's eighth largest market.
Mobile phone fight for customers
INTENSE competition in the fledgling IT market in China has powered technical innovation and the gradual reduction of the prices, good news for consumers.
IBM breaks through the language barrier
SURFING the Internet has caught on in a big way in China, but the preponderance of sites in English prevents many from using the service to its full capacity.
Increased office space lures business to Pudong
PUDONG office market is booming for a number of good reasons which include a gradual concentration of high quality buildings in certain areas and governmental policies.
Brief
Solaris8 system SUN Microsystems Co, one of the largest suppliers of IT infrastructures in the global market, launched its latest server-based Solaris8 operating system on the Chinese market last week. Chinese customers, both enterprises and individual users, will all be granted free access to the operating system after registration. Samsung strategy SAMSUNG, one of the world's major electronic display manufacturers, is expanding in the local market as part of its global strategy. Samsung now exports 50,000 newly-developed flat screen TVs a year from South Korea to China. Samsung will invest $1.73 billion in developing new products this year to compete with its rivals. High-speed DSP core US-BASED Texas Instruments Co (TI), the inventor of the integrated circuit, made two of its latest products - TMS32064X and TMS32055x digital signal processor (DSP) cores - available to the global market. Widely used in IT and con-sumer electronic goods, these tiny chips can bring up to tenfold improvement in efficiency and speed. (Star News)
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