Category: TECHNOLOGY

Starting from Sept. 1, China Mobile, China Telecommunications and China Unicom will scrap charges for domestic roaming and long-distance calls across the country. Mobile users used to be charged about 0.6 yuan (9 U.S. cents) to 0.8 yuan per minute for the ... ( read original story ...)

The Chinese government earlier this month ordered state-owned internet service providers, including China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, to completely block access to VPNs by February 2018. It followed a 14-month campaign the Chinese Ministry of ... ( read original story ...)

China appears to have succeeded in eliminating software programs that enable its people to view an uncensored internet. Companies that let people avoid the government filters said Saturday that their programs have been removed from Apple's app store in ... ( read original story ...)

Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd (NYSE:CHU) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday morning. Morgan Stanley cut China Unicom (Hong Kong) from an overweight rating to an ... ( read original story ...)

The removals signal a new push by China to control the internet. In the past, the Great Firewall has used technology to disrupt VPNs, and Beijing has shut down Chinese VPNs and even aimed a huge cyberattack at a well-known foreign site hosting code that ... ( read original story ...)

Related: China says VPN crackdown aimed at 'cleaning' the internet ... a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a press conference on Tuesday. "Law-abiding individuals and businesses won't be affected," he added. ( read original story ...)

The first pods were launched at the Global Harbor shopping mall in Shanghai in June, and since then over 1,000 men have used the facilities, according to Ruwo Smart Technology, the company behind the scheme. "Man pod" users can recline in a chair with a ... ( read original story ...)

Launched in 2015, Honor of Kings is a multiplayer online battle game similar to League of Legends, but for mobile phones. About 55 million people are playing HoK daily in China, making it the world’s top-grossing mobile game (paywall) in the first ... ( read original story ...)

Finally, Russell Investments Group Ltd. acquired a new stake in shares of China Unicom (Hong Kong) during the fourth quarter valued at $852,000. Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of China Mobile (Hong Kong) from an overweight rating to an underweight rating ... ( read original story ...)

Around the mobile payments campfire, many commentators were intrigued by New York Times contributor Paul Mozer’s first-person account of his difficulties paying with cash on a recent trip to Shanghai. From the humblest street vendor to the fanciest ... ( read original story ...)