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Article | 20/05/2011 China's Great Firewall a big inconvenience: shoe thrower

The man who threw a shoe at the architect of China's Internet censorship systems on Thursday, said he did so because the censorship has made his life ...

Article | 19/05/2011 Gaming firms must sail past China's pirates to cash in

Although the game was developed in the U.S., the concept behind Plants vs. Zombies knows no cultural bounds for Chinese fans like 27-year-old Sai Na.

Article | 19/05/2011 Plants vs. Zombies heads to China with new game versions

PopCap Games is releasing new versions of its Plants vs. Zombies title in China, with the aim of raking in more revenue from a major market that is cu...

Article | 17/05/2011 China's Web population a figure hard to pin down

Depending on how you count, China can have as many as 450 million Web users, or just 300 million.

Article | 16/05/2011 Alibaba, Yahoo try to mend ties with joint statement

Yahoo and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement on Sunday, in what appeared to be a symbolic effort by the companies to move past a dispute involving...

Article | 13/05/2011 Alibaba transferred Alipay ownership without Yahoo approval

Yahoo said that Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group transferred ownership of its online payment service Alipay without its knowledge or approval, a...

Article | 12/05/2011 Huawei wins injunction against ZTE in Germany

China's largest telecommunication equipment supplier, Huawei Technologies, has won a preliminary injunction prohibiting its hometown rival ZTE from us...

Article | 12/05/2011 China’s Sina benefits from surge in microblogging

One of China’s largest microblogs reported Thursday that it added 40 million registered users in just two months, reflecting a surge in interest in Tw...

Article | 12/05/2011 Chinese top microblog hits over 90 million active users

A Twitter-like service operated by one of China's largest Internet firms now has over 90 million active users on a monthly basis, and is positioning i...

Article | 10/05/2011 Angry Birds maker Rovio partners with Chinese gaming firm

Rovio Mobile, the developer of Angry Birds, has partnered with a Chinese gaming firm, giving players in the country a new avenue to download official ...

Article | 9/05/2011 White iPhone sparks skirmish at Beijing Apple Store

The long wait for Apple products in Beijing turned ugly over the weekend when a skirmish erupted outside one of the company's stores, resulting in a b...

Article | 6/05/2011 Lenovo-backed video game system unveiled in China

A video game system backed by Lenovo is scheduled to be launched in China in the second half of this year.

Article | 6/05/2011 Apple's iPad 2 attracts big lines in Beijing

It took 20 hours of waiting in line. But by 8 a.m. on Friday morning, 48-year-old Yu Hong had finally gotten her hands on Apple's iPad 2.

Article | 5/05/2011 U.S. senator critical of rumored Facebook-Baidu tie-up

The possibility of Facebook entering China has started to draw political scrutiny, with U.S. senator Dick Durbin questioning whether a rumored tie-up ...

Article | 5/05/2011 China's Baidu launching free legal music downloads

China's largest search engine Baidu is preparing to offer free legal music downloads, as part of a push by the company to move away from its reputatio...