Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo—said to resemble the lovechild of Facebook and Twitter—is reportedly filtering out search results containing the word “occupy” when paired with the names of various places.
China Digital Times (CDT) reports:
“As the Occupy Wall Street movement goes global, China’s call for calm observation
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The hits (and trademark misses) just keep coming out of China, whose authorities now say they’ve uncovered a whopping 22 fake Apple stores—and that’s just in the city of Kunming, where this strange, sordid tale of Apple retail ne’er do wells started.
According to Xinhua News Agency, China’s official press agency, the country’s …
How best to smuggle iPads and iPhones across the border? Until recently, a crossbow, a spool of high-test fishing line, and some good old fashioned gumption ostensibly proved to work pretty well.
As the story goes, smugglers stood on an upper-level balcony of a high rise building in Shenzhen and used a crossbow to shoot fishing line
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Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing contractor that often produces Apple’s newfangled iDevices, has decided that they’re going to up the ante, slowly replacing factory workers with robots.
Within the next three years, Foxconn plans to include 1 million robots in its workforce while phasing out some of its human workers. Currently, …
Nearly a month after famed Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei was released from government detention, he’s finally broken his silence—on Google+.
It was a short message that Ai first posted in Chinese, announcing, “Greetings, I am here.” It was the first public message Ai has sent since he was released from three …
In the wake of last week’s fake-Apple-Store-in-China story, government officials in China have begun investigating stores that sell Apple products to determine whether or not the stores are operating legally.
Reuters reports that 300 shops in Kunming have been inspected, with five of them “found to be selling Apple products without …
Is that Megatron sitting on top of the Bird’s Nest? Perhaps. Transformers have come to China, and while they may not be the walking and talking kind, they’ve mysteriously cropped all across cities in China.
(VIDEO: Watch the Official Trailer for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon)
Okay, well maybe it’s not so mysterious. …
I’ve seen some pretty convincing knockoffs in my time. Lithuanian flea-market tables with immaculately duplicated illicit versions of Microsoft and Norton products. Metro kiosks off Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg with jewel-cased, color-labeled computer games still technically in beta. I’ve flipped through stacks of fake DVDs, cheap …
It’s not even out of its infancy, but Google+ has already been blocked in China. It seems just like only yesterday the product was announced; and my Circles aren’t even full yet.
While it’s been rumored that Google won’t officially make the upstart social network open to the public until the beginning of August, users in China …
WTB one ticket to World Joyland.
If you’ve got a hankering to join the world’s biggest nerdfest (no, we’re not talking about Comic-Con), you might have to hop a plane all the way to Changzhou, China to get the ultimate Warcraft and Starcraft fix.
Billed as the world’s first video game-themed amusement park, “World Joyland” is …
Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand… as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China’s “first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform,” …
China’s response to Google’s accusation that Chinese hackers broke into Gmail, the company’s free online email service, and absconded with the login details of hundreds of senior U.S. and Asian government officials, military personnel, journalists and Chinese political activists?
We didn’t do it, and your “unacceptable” attempt to …
