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China said Wednesday it had renewed Google's licence to operate in the world's largest online market, after the US company last year moved its Chinese search engine overseas in protest over censorship. http://phys.org/news234601057.html Technology Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:57:55 EST news234601057 An "experimental" satellite launched by China failed to reach its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned, according to state media. http://phys.org/news232944733.html Space & Earth Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:20:01 EST news232944733 Another 22 fake Apple stores have been discovered in a southwestern Chinese city, a media report said on Friday, just weeks after authorities shut down two such shops. http://phys.org/news232351151.html Technology Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:59:22 EST news232351151 Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce company has announced the development of a new OS for smartphones; called Aliyun, it will initially run on the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700, built by Beijing Tianyu Communications, a Chinese handset maker. http://phys.org/news231148387.html Technology Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:53:31 EST news231148387 Baidu Inc., which operates China's dominant search engine, said Tuesday its quarterly profit jumped 95 percent on traffic growth and strong spending by big advertising customers. http://phys.org/news230867059.html Technology Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:46:06 EST news230867059 (AP) -- Chinese officials found five fake Apple stores in a southwestern city and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday. http://phys.org/news230782577.html Technology Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:16:29 EST news230782577 (AP) -- A European trade envoy said Chinese officials indicated Thursday that Beijing might change its curbs on exports of rare earths after a World Trade Organization panel rejected similar restrictions on other metals. http://phys.org/news229850906.html Technology Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:40:03 EST news229850906 The number of Chinese websites fell dramatically last year after the government tightened controls on the Internet, according to a new study by a leading state-run research institute. http://phys.org/news229746472.html Technology Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:30:01 EST news229746472 Chinese web giant Baidu said on Monday it had reached an agreement with Microsoft to provide English-language results generated by the US software giant's Bing search engine. http://phys.org/news228987649.html Technology Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:41:05 EST news228987649 Taiwan on Wednesday gave the green light for a project by leading flat-panel maker AU Optronics to spend nearly $800 million on a stake in a Chinese firm, officials said. http://phys.org/news227949687.html Technology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:22:00 EST news227949687 Google and its joint venture partner in China have applied for a licence to operate an online mapping service in the world's biggest web market, a news report said on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news227254908.html Technology Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:22:00 EST news227254908 (AP) -- More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday. http://phys.org/news227078776.html Medicine & Health Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:26:36 EST news227078776 China's Sina Corp plans to launch an English version of its popular Twitter-like microblogging service, a company spokesman was quoted saying Tuesday. http://phys.org/news226667654.html Technology Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:10:01 EST news226667654 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said rampant software piracy in China has eaten into his company's revenue in what is soon to be the world's top PC market, a report said Friday. http://phys.org/news225691036.html Technology Fri, 27 May 2011 05:30:02 EST news225691036 (AP) -- An online payment system founded by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group was granted a government license, the company said Thursday, following an ownership change that rattled investors in partner Yahoo Inc. http://phys.org/news225623958.html Technology Thu, 26 May 2011 10:19:34 EST news225623958 The number of Internet users in China, already the world's largest online market, hit 477 million at the end of March, a senior government official was quoted by state media as saying Monday. http://phys.org/news224756259.html Technology Mon, 16 May 2011 09:17:57 EST news224756259 China's top online dating site, Jiayuan, is seeking to raise nearly $78 million with an initial public offering on Wall Street on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news224305664.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 04:08:02 EST news224305664 Taiwan further relaxed controls Tuesday on high-tech investments in China by local firms, allowing makers of flat-panel television screens to export their most advanced technology to the mainland. http://phys.org/news218805217.html Technology Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:40:01 EST news218805217 A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday. http://phys.org/news218373210.html Technology Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:40:02 EST news218373210 (AP) -- U.S.-based website Groupon.com says it has launched a discount coupon site in China, hoping to capitalize on the world's most populous Internet market. http://phys.org/news218118320.html Technology Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:25:35 EST news218118320 Taiwan is to relax controls on investments from mainland China in the island's high-tech companies, a senior economic official said Sunday. http://phys.org/news218010434.html Technology Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:27:57 EST news218010434 Thick smog blanketing Beijing went "beyond" measurable pollution levels on Monday, the US embassy said, as a Chinese official warned people to stay indoors and avoid outdoor activities. http://phys.org/news217516952.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:22:48 EST news217516952 (AP) -- China plans to tighten control over rare earths producers and restrict output in a five-year development strategy, the Cabinet said Wednesday, amid concern abroad about plans to reduce exports of the exotic minerals used in high-tech goods. http://phys.org/news217073671.html Technology Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:40:01 EST news217073671 The air pollution control measures that were put in place in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games – if continued – would cut almost in half the lifetime risk of lung cancer for the area's residents from certain inhaled pollutants, a new study concludes. http://phys.org/news216363573.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:00:18 EST news216363573 The top science bodies of China and Taiwan have agreed to meet once a year to promote exchanges and cooperation between researchers, officials said Thursday. http://phys.org/news214721210.html Technology Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:47:27 EST news214721210 China said Thursday the number of Internet users in what is already the world's largest online market had jumped to 450 million -- more than a third of the country's 1.3-billion-strong population. http://phys.org/news212900359.html Technology Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:59:37 EST news212900359 (AP) -- Senior envoys from China and Taiwan signed an agreement Tuesday to cooperate in the development of new drugs, as the two economies continue to move closer. http://phys.org/news212127142.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:13:08 EST news212127142 China's army should seriously consider how to deal with cyberwarfare amid severe threats to online and information security, state media said Thursday, days after authorities detained hundreds of hackers. http://phys.org/news210486976.html Technology Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:50:03 EST news210486976 An early Chinese clone of micro-blog site Twitter that was shut down by authorities last year amid fears it was fanning unrest in the country's restive west has re-emerged. http://phys.org/news210311356.html Technology Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:20:05 EST news210311356 Taiwan's top security unit said Monday it received nearly half a million cyber attacks a month, only a minority from China and around 60 percent from the island itself. http://phys.org/news209014877.html Technology Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:10:01 EST news209014877