David Barboza New York Times

Zhou Qunfei is the world's richest self-made woman. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong.

Stock prices in mainland China fell sharply again on Wednesday, despite another series of government measures meant to restore confidence and stabilize a market that has grown increasingly turbulent in the last month.

With his stock market riches, Gong Yifeng bought a riverfront apartment here for his son and daughter-in-law. He can eat well and travel abroad. He can also afford to pay for his granddaughter's education.

China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs.

Foxconn is a key supplier of products to Apple and other global electronics companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Microsoft.

As Apple prepares to unveil the latest iPhone this week, its manufacturing partner in China, is coming under renewed criticism over labour practices.

Companies here in China's industrial heartland are toiling to reinvent their businesses, fearing that the low-cost manufacturing that helped propel the nation's economic ascent is fast becoming obsolete. The TAL Group, which operates an immense garment-making plant in this coastal...

Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company's popular e-mail service. Google said that it was not having any...

Google said on Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China

A year and a half after Google pulled its popular search engine out of mainland China, its rival Microsoft has struck a deal with Baidu.com

Apple's push into China shows the depth of the country's fast-growing upper middle class.

A year after opening a flagship store here, Apple has a problem that any retailer would envy: The huge 16,000-square-foot space is already too small. Huge crowds descend the store's glass staircase, only to discover legions of mostly young Chinese crowding around spare displays of Apple's devices. Another Apple Store, four miles away, is also packe...

Google said on Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China

Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company's popular e-mail service. Google said that it was not having any technical problems with Google's main Web site or Gmail service in China. "There is no issue on our side; we have checke...

In another era, China's leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out. But challenges in recent years to authoritarian governments around the globe and violent uprisings in parts of China itself have made Chinese officials increasingly wary of leaving such talk unchec...

Zhou Qunfei is the world's richest self-made woman. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong.

Stock prices in mainland China fell sharply again on Wednesday, despite another series of government measures meant to restore confidence and stabilize a market that has grown increasingly turbulent in the last month.

With his stock market riches, Gong Yifeng bought a riverfront apartment here for his son and daughter-in-law. He can eat well and travel abroad. He can also afford to pay for his granddaughter's education.

China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs.

Foxconn is a key supplier of products to Apple and other global electronics companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Microsoft.

As Apple prepares to unveil the latest iPhone this week, its manufacturing partner in China, is coming under renewed criticism over labour practices.

Companies here in China's industrial heartland are toiling to reinvent their businesses, fearing that the low-cost manufacturing that helped propel the nation's economic ascent is fast becoming obsolete. The TAL Group, which operates an immense garment-making plant in this coastal...

Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company's popular e-mail service. Google said that it was not having any...

Google said on Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China

A year and a half after Google pulled its popular search engine out of mainland China, its rival Microsoft has struck a deal with Baidu.com

Apple's push into China shows the depth of the country's fast-growing upper middle class.

A year after opening a flagship store here, Apple has a problem that any retailer would envy: The huge 16,000-square-foot space is already too small. Huge crowds descend the store's glass staircase, only to discover legions of mostly young Chinese crowding around spare displays of Apple's devices. Another Apple Store, four miles away, is also packe...

Google said on Wednesday that hundreds of users of Gmail had been the targets of clandestine attacks apparently originating in China

Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company's popular e-mail service. Google said that it was not having any technical problems with Google's main Web site or Gmail service in China. "There is no issue on our side; we have checke...

In another era, China's leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out. But challenges in recent years to authoritarian governments around the globe and violent uprisings in parts of China itself have made Chinese officials increasingly wary of leaving such talk unchec...