High-tech science park gets big boost

2011-05-09 09:30:22

The State Council approved a development plan that allows companies at Zhongguancun to try out new measures and pilot projects.
Interview with Zhongguancun Science Park official

Foxconn leads the race for the interior

2011-05-07 09:29:04

For Li Xiaozui, life as a factory worker, assembling products for Apple Inc and other technology brands, has become better during the past year. She is one of 500,000 people working in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, the contract manufacturer that came to media prominence last year following a series of worker suicides.

China cracks down on illegal surveying, mapping

2011-05-10 16:43:47

Chinese authorities mobilized nearly 15,000 people to conduct more than 2,200 law-enforcement operations involved in a nationwide crackdown on illegal surveying and mapping last year, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said Tuesday.

Youku may net acquisitions

2011-05-07 09:21:10

Youku.com Inc, owner of China's biggest online-video site, said it will review possible acquisitions as the company plans to sell new stock to fund expansion.

Baidu plans legal music downloads

2011-05-07 09:20:43

China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to provide free downloads of copyrighted music from next week. The move comes as a response to increasing criticism of its involvement in copyright infringement.

Buyers find love at 1st byte of new Apple iPads

2011-05-07 09:00:47

After lining up outside for 16 hours, Yu Hong stepped out of an Apple store in Beijing one happy lady on Friday.

Apple's iPad 2 madness lands in China

2011-05-06 14:56:25

Apple's iPad 2 (Wi-Fi only) went on sale on the Chinese mainland Friday, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

E-reader maker looks for tonic

2011-05-06 10:43:08

Having boasted in May 2010 that its aim was to overturn Apple Inc's dominance in the Chinese tablet PC market, the nation's leading maker of e-readers and tablet PCs, Hanvon Technology Co Ltd, has posted a first quarter loss of 40 million yuan ($6 million).

Foxconn pulls out of Hunan proposal

2011-05-06 10:05:24

Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contractor by revenue, has halted a plan to manufacture tablet computers in Hengyang in Central China's Hunan province.

Indonesia big part of ZTE plans

2011-05-06 09:52:44

China's second-largest telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp hopes to double its terminal sales in Indonesia, boosting the proportion of its revenue from terminals to more than 50 percent in the next two years.

Renren shines on US debut; analysts wary

2011-05-06 08:56:48

While foreign investors hailed the 28.6 percent surge of Renren Inc at its trading debut on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, analysts and industry experts in China raised concerns of a possible risk to China's largest social networking site.

Shanda targets Asian, US markets

2011-05-04 13:49:06

Shanda Games Ltd, the Chinese maker of such video games as "Mir 2" and "Woool", plans to expand in the United States, South Korea and Japan this year, as its business matures in its home country.