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The article reports on the argument of the European Union (EU) over China's practice of preventing foreign financial information suppliers from offering their services directly to their Chinese clients. With this, the Chinese government finally signed a memorandum of understanding with the EU, agreeing that regulatory responsibility would pass from Xinhua News Agency to a new independent regulator and the requirement for foreign suppliers to operate through an agent would be removed.

The article discusses the highlights of the EMC Forum 2008 held in Hong Kong, China. Denis Yip, president of EMC Greater China, mentioned an IDC study which predicted the growth of digital information worldwide. KC Fung of EMC Hong Kong cited the efforts of EMC to provide customers with the so-called Five 9s availability, more ease of use and multi-tier storage while also pushing for greater data center efficiency. In a panel discussion, a number of businesses highlighted how they were leveraging EMC in their efforts to address information challenge.

This article focuses on VIP Eye, VIP's sister title, has covered a number of new company and business information products on China. China Securities Market Investment Yearbook provides trading information, finance data, company profiles, and the share structure of over 1,354 China listed companies, together with basic information, net asset and investment data, the top 10 holders, shareholders, and other important information on 54 closed-end funds and 116 open-end funds. The publisher, Hong Kong-based GTA Information Technology Company, claims that this is the first English-language yearbook on the Chinese securities market.

The article presents summaries of recent conversations took place at the Web site http://www.freepint.com/bar. Several recent discussions at the FreePint Bar Web site reflect on researching industries in China, Japan, India and across Asia. The topic of one of the discussions is how to find a list of registered companies of China. Another discussion focuses on the development of manufacturing jobs in Japan, China, India and a few other countries.

The article presents information on the deals between Chinese business enterprises and U.S. business enterprises expertised in business information services. It reports that Dun & Bradstreet Corp. sold Mergent, of Mergent Manuals, to Xinhua Finance Ltd. Xinhua is a Hong Kong financial services firm traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The largest stockholder is Xinhua News, the Chinese government-owned news service. Another China-U.S. information deal pairs Accoona and Dun & Bradstreet. Accoona, developed by a Jersey City, New Jersey, artificial intelligence company, is a new search engine that aims to eclipse Google and Yahoo for business information. The Chinese State Council Information Office, publisher of China Daily, the official English-language newspaper, is a major Accoona stockholder. Accoona claims to give users links to five million Chinese companies and directory data for four million U.S. companies. New York-based ISI Emerging Markets, a Euromoney Institutional Investor property, has purchased Hong Kong's CEIC Data Co. Ltd. CEIC comprises four databases--Asia, non-Asia, China, and Daily Country Indicators--of macro-economic information.

Reports on the launching of the first Euro Information Center in China's mainland in Changsha, Hunan, to provide information to small and medium-sized enterprises.

This article focuses on increase in the number of broadband users in China. By 2007, China will have overtaken the US and the gap is expected to widen in future years. A recent study and whitepaper by Chinese search engine Accoona reveals that Chinese Internet users are becoming more business focussed in terms of the information they seek online. As the economy slowly starts to open, China is beginning to offer serious prospects for both domestic and international investors. This new market offers tremendous opportunities for suppliers of business information.

States that the China Guoxin Information Corporation (CGIC), is making a commitment for the provision of economic information services in China. What has fueled the growth for the growing need for economic and market information; CGIC's publication ` China Business Focus;' Issues the publication addresses; How the CGIC is meeting the demand for economic information; Comments from Chai Wuchang, manager of the department.

The article reports on the completion of researches concerning business information industries in China. The report "Traveling the Silicon Road from Electronic News" was completed on November 2005. It focuses on the job opportunities offered by China's technology sector. "Domestic Companies in China: Taking on the Competition" by Economist Intelligence Report presents a survey of 176 companies in China. It claims that Chinese companies will target domestic markets rather than the overseas.

The article reports on the opening of the first local office of Reach Only Representative Ltd. in Beijing, China. The office is intended to develop the organization's business on representation under Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation in the country. The local office in Beijing is mainly for the contacts and good communications between chemical manufacturers of the country and the company's marketing development in Asia Pacific.

The article reports that information services providers Knowledge Access and 3W have joined forces to develop, produce and make available two new CD-ROMs that provide information on legal and business developments within the People's Republic of China. The first database contains almost one million words of international and business laws and regulations for mainland China. International, national and local laws are featured, as well as laws and regulations that pertain only to certain economic and technology zones. Subjects covered by the CD-ROM include customs, taxation, import and export arbitration, and copyright/trademark. Chinese constitutional law, as well as case histories published by the Chinese supreme court, are also included. The Also available on CD-ROM and floppy are the names and addresses of 31,000 companies located in China. Each company record in the database can be sorted by SIC code, product description, year founded, stock status, method of ownership, area code and province.