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China's homegrown third-generation (3G) mobile technology, Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), will be ready for commercial deployment during the middle of 2005, according to a Chinese official quoted by the official China Daily newspaper.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has alleged that Corning Inc. dumped optical fibres exported from the U.S. to China, the Corning, New York, company said Wednesday.

A Chinese Web site launched on Thursday allows Internet users in the world's most populous country to report illegal content online.

Taiwanese police arrested on Thursday a 30-year-old computer engineer surnamed Wang for allegedly writing a Trojan-horse program called Peep.exe that was used by Chinese hackers to attack computers in Taiwan, according to a statement released by Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).

In the beginning, some observers predicted that opening China to the Internet would unleash an uncontrollable flood of information that would lead to the collapse of the Chinese government.

Siemens AG will invest around

More than one year after receiving initial approval from Taiwan's government, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, is on track to start production before the end of this year at a chip fabrication plant (fab) under construction near Shanghai.