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Youku’s plans for 2009

An excerpt of an interview with Youku.com’s Victor Ku.

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Spring Festival travel season

The Spring Festival travel season official began on Sunday, and Steven Lin from Youku.com alerted us to this video of the chaos outside the railway station in Hefei, Anhui.

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The Grabbing Class

A member of the ‘qiangqiang zu‘ or ‘Grabbing Class’ explains where she got all her her schwag–freebies from commercial promotions and contests etc.

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Counterstrike in yuppie Beijing

Youku.com’s picks of the month in online video.

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Good morning Xinhua Insurance!

This video on Youku.com is labeled the ‘terribly tiring morning exercises at Xinhua Insurance (NCI)’ and shows what may be compulsory a.m. activities for the staff.

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South Korean woman shot dead by DPRK army

Chinese TV news coverage of the South Korean woman, apparently a tourist, who was recently shot dead by North Korean soldiers.

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56.com back online

Video sharing website 56.com is back online, after more than a month of downtime, apparently because SARFT was displeased with the company.

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Youku gets video website licence

Youku.com, one of the big three video websites in China that did not previously have a licence from SARFT to operate has been granted the license according to a report by Hexun.com.

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Youku.com gets $30 million

The China video website saga continues: Youku.com gets $30 million in funding.

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Video website licenses for 247 sites
Big Three left in the cold

247 websites and companies get approval for online video, but the Big Three are left out in the cold.

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Big Three left in the cold