David Barboza Nyt News Service

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  China to invest billions in electric and hybrid cars

  The Chinese government, determined to become a world leader in green technology, says it plans to invest billions of dollars over the next few years to develop electric and hybrid vehicles.The government said a group of 16 big state-owned companies...

• China to invest billions in electric and hybrid cars

  The Chinese government, determined to become a world leader in green technology, says it plans to invest billions of dollars over the next few years to develop electric and hybrid vehicles.The government said a group of 16 big state-owned companies had already agreed to form an alliance to do research and development, and create standards for elect...

• Google to stop redirecting China users

  Google plans to stop automatically sending users in mainland Chinese to its uncensored Hong Kong site, in an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in China.The action, experts on China say, amounts to a symbolic gesture that Google hopes will placate the Chinese government, which may be feeling pressure from citizens...

• A Chinese factory outsources worker dorms

  Under intense scrutiny after several suicides at its factories in southern China this year, Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, has decided to stop operating its own dormitories for workers. On Friday, the company said that it was essentially outsourcing its living arrangements to two Chinese real estate compani...

• Changes in China could raise prices worldwide

  The cost of doing business in China is going up.Coastal factories are raising salaries, local governments are hiking minimum wage standards and if China allows its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate against the U.S. dollar later this year, as many economists are predicting, the cost of manufacturing in China will almost certainly rise. Although ...

• After suicides, scrutiny of China's grim factories

  The factory's first death this year came on January 23.Ma Zishan and Ma Liqun, the father and sister of a Foxconn worker who killed himself in January, after being demoted. "The factory was always abusing my brother," Ms. Ma said.The Foxconn sites in Shenzhen have a reputation as grueling workplaces, where tasks are timed with a stopwatch.The body ...

• China hides pirated DVDs before the world arrives

  In China, embarrassments are usually hidden from sight when the world comes visiting, and that is what has happened to a large supply of bootleg DVDs and CDs as Shanghai prepares for the World Expo, which is expected to attract 70 million visitors.

• Researchers trace Indian Defence Ministry data theft to China

  Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing while the intruders pilfered classified and restricted documents from the highest levels of the Indian Defence Ministry.

• Google not alone in discontent with China

  Google is far from alone among Western companies in its growing unhappiness with Chinese government policies, although it is highly unusual in threatening to pull out of the country entirely in protest.