[July 06, 2009] BRIEFING - ASIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS - JULY 6, 2009 Tweet Jul 06, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- An executive briefing on the telecommunications industry for July 6, 2009, prepared by Asia Pulse (http:/ www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. FULL-TEXT CHINESE NEWSPAPERS COMING TO IPHONES IN JAPAN TOKYO - Peking University Founder Group Corp. will offer a service enabling users in Japan to read Chinese newspapers in their entirety on Apple Inc.'s iPhone. The Japanese unit of the major Chinese information technology firm is to launch the service next month. Users will be able to download that day's edition of five major Chinese newspapers by 10 a.m. The monthly fee for the service will be 315 yen per title. DENA TO MAKE MAJOR CHINESE SOCIAL SITE OPERATOR A SUBSIDIARY TOKYO - Japanese internet portal site operator DeNA Co. (TSE:2432) said Friday that it will take a 50 per cent-plus stake in British firm Waptx Ltd., turning the operator of a Chinese social networking site for cell phones into a subsidiary . DeNA will buy some 8.73 million shares in the British company this month via a private placement of shares. VIETNAM SHINES WHEN IT COMES TO ICT HANOI - Vietnam is among developing countries that stand out as a better information and communication technology (ICT) performer than its income, according to a World Bank report. In the report Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact, Vietnam ranks the highest in performance among 35 other developing countries in the same bracket. GLOBAL TELESHOP TARGETS HIGHER INCOME IN INDONESIA JAKARTA - Global Teleshop, the distributor of Nokia products and those of Indonesia's Telkom Group (JSX:TLKM), are targeting earnings of Rp1 trillion (US$100 million) in sales this year, up from Rp800 billion last year. The company is optimistic to reach the target with the operation of new outlets, Global Teleshop President Djatmiko Wardoyo said. INDONESIAN GOVT MAY BAN IMPORT OF BLACKBERRY JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has warned the producer of BlackBerry to establish a service center in the country or it would reject all applications for new certification of the smart phone products. The Canada-based Research in Motion is required to have its service center before July 16, 2009, said Gatot S Dewa Broto, the spokesman of the ministry of communications and Information Technology. VIETNAM'S VIETTEL NAMED SERVICE SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR HANOI - Military run Viettel is the first Vietnamese company to win service provider of the year at the Asian-Pacific ICT. awards, held in Singapore. This award attracts many famous companies in the information and media sector like Nokia, Ericsson, Singtel, Chinamobile, ZTE and the NTT Group. The award aims to find enterprises or individuals with outstanding achievements in this field. HANOI'S HI-TECH ZONE ATTRACTS FOUR NEW PROJECTS HANOI - The Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Industrial Zone has so far this year granted investment licences to four projects with a combined capital of US$316.45 million. The four new projects include a laboratory and a facility to test ship design models with an investment of 85.6 million usd from the Vietnam Ship Research Institute under the Vietnam Shipping Industrial Group (Vinashin) and a 16.29 million usd internet centre funded by the Vietnam internet centre. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]