Malware Infects WeChat, Other iOS Apps in Chinese Store
GreatFire.org’s Percy Alpha reports the discovery of malware-infected software on Apple’s Chinese...
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Apple Excluded from Official Procurement [Updated]
Bloomberg’s Steven Yang and Lulu Yilun Chen report that Apple laptops and tablets have been...
Word of the Week: Red Pad
红派壹号 (hóng pài yī hào): red pad The Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the iPad. Introduced in...
In Hong Kong, Inflation Spooks the Spirit World
The Wall Street Journal’s Te-Ping Chen reports on rising costs of afterliving and spiralling...
Contemporary Chinese Art: Young and Restless
At The Economist’s Analects blog, Alec Ash discusses ON / OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice. The exhibition at Beijing’s Ullens Center includes the Foxconn-focused Consumption by Li Liao, who was...
Artist Puts iPad on Pedestal
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos talks to artist Li Liao about his piece Consumption, currently on display in Beijing in an exhibition of 50 young, post-Mao Chinese artists. The work consists of objects from Li’s 45-day...
iPad Dispute in China Settled Cheaply
The imbroglio between Apple and Proview in China has been settled with an agreement fee of $60 million, which The Wall Street Journal calls “far short of the as much as $2 billion that a Proview arm had asked for in a U.S....
Diaoyu Island Dispute, Now For iPad!
Apple’s forthcoming iOS 6 promises a raft of new features for Chinese users, including expanded Chinese language support and integration with services such as Baidu search, Sina Weibo, Youku and Tudou. In addition,...
New iPad: Made, but Not Yet Sold in China
A man outside Shanghai’s Middle Huaihai Road store attracted the attention of 10 police officers when he threatened to smash what he claimed was a defective 27-inch iMac that he had purchased, according to China Daily...
Apple’s China Problems
The New York Times traces the human element of Apple’s supply chain in a lengthy report on conditions at the Chinese factories that make its wildly popular devices: Some former Apple executives say there is an unresolved...
Chinese Muckraker Caixin Expands Its Mandate
As China’s official media attempts to expand overseas, independent news organisation Caixin is taking similar steps into the international market. From The Wall Street Journal: Hu Shuli, a prominent Chinese editor who...
Foxconn Workshops Resume iPad Production; Boy Regrets Selling Kidney to Buy One
From Shanghai Daily: A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times...
China Sealing Cracks in the Great Firewall
The tightening of China’s control over Internet traffic across its borders continues, with loopholes closing and apparently punitive disruption of connections used to “jump the wall”. Flipboard is a...
Violence Breaks Out Saturday at Beijing Apple Store
Apparently staff and customers got in a fight at Beijing’s flagship Apple Store resulting in a broken window and a Chinese man being beaten up. This news is still developing and no clear picture of what happened has...
Chinese Government’s PR Arm Gets iPad App
iPad users rejoice, for China’s State Council Information Office has created it’s first app! At no cost, you can now access a variety of things from press conferences to white papers. From China Real Time Report...
Chinese Apple Stores have Highest Traffic, Revenue
Last summer, Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi told the Financial Times that Apple was losing out in China, and that—luckily for him—founder and CEO Steve Jobs “doesn’t care about China.” Apple’s most recent...
Apple, at Long Last, Launches iPad in China
People waited in line overnight to be the first to buy an iPad in China, AP reports: Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai as well as authorised retailers around the country began offering the Wi-Fi model of the touchscreen...
Pirates Rewrite Script for Apple’s China iPad Launch
Reuters visits sellers of pirated iPads that are a hot commodity in China, three weeks after the real thing was launched in the U.S.: Hard-working Chinese bootleggers are rushing to fill a vacuum that won’t last for long,...
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