Last October he launched SmartPay, which offers a new way to pay bills in China, where personal checks are nonexistent and credit cards rare.

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The recent cases prompted China to announce temperature checks on people traveling back from Cambodia, according to the country's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

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Keen to avoid cumbersome, fraud-prone checks and cash, China meanwhile is leaping into smart technology with its Golden Card project.

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Checks with value chain suppliers indicate China Telecom should be ready to debut a CDMA iPhone 4S as soon as February 2012, even though the launch could be delayed to mid-2012, read the note released Monday, dispelling rumors that a CDMA iPhone could rock the Chinese market in the fourth quarter.

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With more emotion than sense, electronic components, machine parts and even towels made far from Fukushima have required radiation checks or been turned back by Italy and China, among others.

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And when we get those rebate checks, most people are going to go out and buy stuff that's been imported from China.

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