Hans Lombardo

Responding to the growing complaints about the cost of Internet service in China, the Chinese Government is reportedly considering a reduction of Internet access charges. Charges for general users are to be cut with a significant reduction for institutional users, according to a Beijing Telegraph Bureau source of Xinhua, the government’s official news agency. Confirming […]

The publicity arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee has called upon all government departments and ministries to increase vigilance and control over information on the Web, according to Ming Pao, a Hong Kong Chinese language daily. A source of Ming Pao said that the government sought to tighten control over Internet content because […]

Joining Hong Kong’s Internet telephony race, AT&T’s Hong Kong ISP operation, AT&T Easylink Services Ltd, has introduced its own IP telephony service to the Chinese territory, branded as AT&T@Phone. “Offering IP telephony is the first step in what we are trying to do here,” said Yvette Ong, managing director of Online Services for AT&T Easylink. […]

After rolling out six country portals and six regional portals in 1998, Hong Kong-owned Orientation Global Network has released its first product of 1999, Orientation Russia, a move that is consistent with its business plan of developing niche markets. “Contrary to western opinion, Russia is one of the key Internet markets. Here the Internet is […]

A Hong Kong company, Asia Information Resources Ltd. (AIR), will be the first to offer Taiwanese Internet users subscription access to official information about mainland China. AIR, specializing in online database services that contain legal, business, and financial information, recently closed a deal with Taiwan’s government-owned Chung-Hwa Telecom to provide its Internet customers with online […]

In order to support recent and future acquisitions, PSINet’s Hong Kong subsidiary, LinkAGE Online Ltd., has acquired an OC-3 ATM link to the Hong Kong Internet eXchange (HKIX) and improved its links to Japan and Korea with a 4M and a T1 respectively. “Growth in LinkAGE Online’s operations is greatly facilitated by a gateway to […]

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non-profit center in charge of domain registration in China, has rated Guangzhou-based NetEase as the number one Web site in China. CNNIC is modeled after InterNIC in the United States with the similar functions of providing directory and database services, assignment of domain names and IP addresses, […]

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) plans to setup an online distance learning environment at a Hong Kong school. The project will utilize a camera placed deep in the canopy of the Peruvian rain forest to help students at the Hong Kong International School (HKIS), a private school for Hong Kong’s expatriate community, learn more about it. […]

German cabling giant Krone AG has picked Anixter Inc. as its Asia Pacific distributor for its structured cabling solutions. The appointment builds on an existing Krone-Anixter partnership covering North America and Europe. The regional distribution agreement encompasses Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. Illinois-based Anixter, an established value-added provider of cabling […]

Although there is great demand for the Internet in China, many Chinese find access to the Internet to be expensive, connection times slow, and information useless, according to two different surveys. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China’s version of the U.S. domain registry InterNIC, has determined that the number of Chinese users has reached […]

Banking on a growing e-commerce trend in Asia, Visa has officially launched a preferential treatment program for online retailers in conjunction with the Visa Shopping Guide by Yahoo! Asia. “Visa sees that it can have a significant role in helping to develop the Internet market place in Asia,” said Jeff Perlman, director of electronic commerce […]

Cisco Systems has signed a deal with the Shandong Post and Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to provide an array of high-end access servers for the PTA’s large Internet expansion project. The Shandong PTA will install the Cisco AS5800 access servers to support over 12,000 connections throughout the province. It is North China’s largest PTA with 1.23 […]