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GreatFire.org’s Percy Alpha reports the discovery of malware-infected software on Apple’s Chinese...
Sep 18, 2015
GreatFire.org’s Percy Alpha reports the discovery of malware-infected software on Apple’s Chinese...
Aug 7, 2014
Bloomberg’s Steven Yang and Lulu Yilun Chen report that Apple laptops and tablets have been...
Jan 15, 2014
红派壹号 (hóng pài yī hào): red pad The Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the iPad. Introduced in...
Aug 20, 2013
The Wall Street Journal’s Te-Ping Chen reports on rising costs of afterliving and spiralling...
Jan 21, 2013
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...
Jan 18, 2013
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...
Jul 6, 2012
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....
Jul 4, 2012
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,...
Mar 16, 2012
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...
Jan 25, 2012
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...
Jul 8, 2011
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...
Jun 2, 2011
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...
May 15, 2011
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...
May 7, 2011
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...
Apr 13, 2011
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...
Jan 27, 2011
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...
Sep 16, 2010
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...
Apr 25, 2010
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,...