Toshiba Corporation has announced that the company has turned the joint venture it ran with top Chinese electronics maker TCL into a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring the remaining 10% stake of the joint venture for JPY200 million.

South Korean electronics company Samsung has announced plans to subcontract parts of its LCD service to Chinese television maker TCL.

Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer TCL says that it has been approved by China's Ministry of Information Industry to make digital satellite television sets.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has released the a machine card separation industry recommendatory standard called UTI.

Liang Qichun, a spokesperson from TCL Group, has told local media that though TCL will sell 82% of its computer company's stakes to an unnamed Hong Kong registered company, it will still keep the computer business as its core focus.