A week in tech: part 2

Our weekly round up of tech stories from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
February 20, 2003

A week in China tech

Mobile Wireless

- Customers send seven billion SMS messages in the first week of the Lunar New Year. Subscribers to China United Telecommunications and China Mobile logged over seven billion short messages in the first week of the Lunar New Year. Mainland mobile phone users sent about 80 billion short messages in all of last year.

Venture Capital Investments

- NetEase.com, Sina.com and UTStarcom considering Hong Kong listings in a bid to tap Asian appetite for China-oriented shares. UTStarcom said it was also weighing a future listing in Hong Kong for similar reasons. The flurry of new listing considerations...

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