David Barboza The New York Times

• An empire built by aping Apple

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

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  Foxconn factory in China is closed after worker riot

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

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  China plant again faces labour issue on iPhones

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

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  China shifts away from low-cost factories

  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...

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  Google accuses Chinese of blocking Gmail service

  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...

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  Google says hackers in China stole Gmail passwords

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

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  Microsoft to partner with China's leading search engine

  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

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  In China, Apple finds a sweet spot

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

• In China, Apple finds a sweet spot

  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 says hackers in China stole Gmail passwords

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

• Google accuses Chinese of blocking Gmail service

  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...

• China bans searches for 'Egypt' on web

  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...

• Why Shanghai schools deliver toppers

  Sin Li Zhen's ninth-grade mathematics class here last week, the morning drill was geometry. Students at the middle school affiliated with Jing'An Teachers' College were asked to explain the relative size of geometric shapes by using Euclid's theorem of parallelograms."Who in this class can tell me how to demonstrate two lines are parallel without u...

• As China rolls ahead, fear follows

  For nearly two years, China's turbocharged economy has raced ahead with the aid of a huge government stimulus program and aggressive lending by state-run banks.But a growing number of economists now worry that China -- the world's fastest growing economy and a pillar of strength during the global financial crisis -- could be stalled next year by so...

• High-rise fire kills 42, injures 90 in Shanghai

  Fire engulfed a high-rise apartment building undergoing renovations in the center of shanghai on Monday afternoon, killing at least 42 people and injuring at least 90 others in one of the deadliest fires here in years, according to Xinhua, the official news agency. Video posted on the Internet and some online accounts suggested that some resi...