China Stories for 2016

Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China 66
China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 67
Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China 71
China's Cash-Strapped LeEco in Talks To Gain $1.4 Billion From Investor 15
Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits 113
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
China's Alibaba Poised To Invest $7.2 Billion in Entertainment and Media 14
China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 115
China Renews Calls For Tighter Cyberspace Security 23
Power Surge: Chinese Electric Car Battery Maker Charges For Global Market 28
China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions 61
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
China Opens Door For Tesla and Other Foreign Automakers To Produce Electric Vehicles 84
China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful 470
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter 156
China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land 166
Human Zika Antibodies Prevent Infection in Mice 12
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
BlackBerry Stops Making Phones, Licenses the BlackBerry Name To TCL For Android Phones 48
Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea 406
Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals 127
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites 22
Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China 124
White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law 48
China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency 416
China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data 83
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
China Pilots a System That Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score' To Determine Eligibility For Jobs, Travel 204
Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever 93
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics 19
China Travel Firm Ctrip To Buy Skyscanner For $2.5 Billion 5
Faraday Future's Factory Construction Paused; Shipping Timelines at Risk 25
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
China Breaks Patent Application Record 28
China's NextEV NIO EP9 Claims To Be 'World's Fastest' Electric Supercar 56
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone 87
US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers 59
China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs 143
Second Chinese Firm In a Week Found Hiding a Backdoor In Android Firmware 108
Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei 472
China Tells Trump Climate Change Isn't a Hoax it Invented 302
Chinese Scientists Become First To Use CRISPR Gene-Editing On Humans 114
Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns 73
IDG, Owner of PCWorld and Research Firm IDC, in Advanced Talks To Sell Itself To Chinese Buyout Group: Reuters 29
Secret Backdoor in Some US Phones Sent Data To China 111
China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War 742
Another Study Finds Earth's CO2 Emissions Have Flattened Over The Last Three Years 201
Alibaba Breaks Records, Sells $17.7 Billion on Singles' Day 64
China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite 46
Alibaba Posts $1 Billion in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles' Day 41
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys To Walk 50
China Adopts Controversial Cybersecurity Law; Experts Say It Will Hurt Businesses 61
LeEco's CEO Jia Yueting Says Company Overstretched, Now Running Out of Cash 37
China Internet Authority Formalizes Regulations For Live-Streaming Industry 17
China Launches New Heavy-Lift Long March 5 Rocket For First Time 93
China's New Policing Computer Is Frontend Cattle Prod, Backend Supercomputer 69
Family Sues Amazon After Counterfeit Hoverboard Catches Fire, Destroys Home 253
Amazon Launches Prime In China 28
In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New 106
Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity 340
Alibaba Founder To Chinese Government: Use Big Data To Stop Criminals 46
China Electronics Firm To Recall Some US Products After Hacking Attack 68
China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue 53
LeEco Who? Chinese Tech Giant Tries Its Luck In the US With 'More Products Than You've Ever Seen' 59
Samsung Tried to Bribe Chinese Man To Keep Exploding Phone Video Private 122
China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit 265
China Has Now Eclipsed The US in AI Research 97
Beijing Said Facebook and Google Are Welcome Back To China as Long as They 'Respect China's Laws' 77
China's Alibaba Has a New Payment System That Lets Virtual Reality Shoppers Pay By Nodding 43
Uber and Didi Face Regulatory Challenges Throughout China 15
Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing 55
The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China 166
Chinese Media, Government Confirm Apple Research Center in Beijing Tech Corridor 19
China's Giant Radio Telescope Begins Searching For Signals From Space 49
Taiwan Asks Google To Blur Its Military Facilities In South China Sea 52
Uber's Terrifying 'Ghost Drivers' Are Freaking Out Passengers in China 81
Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance 527
North Korea Has Just 28 Websites 138
China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth 275
China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years 111
China Launches Second Space Lab 88
China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism 141
China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea 73
US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections 531
Tencent Is Now the Most Valuable Company in Asia 31
US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold 112
Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords 163
Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' 184
China To Crackdown On Unauthorised Radio Broadcasts 44
Didi Launches Car Rental Service In China 10
BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made 62
China's Xiaomi Gearing Up For US Debut 42
Tesla Removes 'Self-driving' From China Website After Beijing Crash 85
China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite 102
China Starts Developing Hybrid Hypersonic Spaceplane 90
Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash 277
China To UK: 'Golden' Ties At Crucial Juncture Over Nuclear Delay 170
China Suspected of Hacking Organizations Involved in South China Sea Dispute 57
US Judge Dismisses Part of Alibaba Counterfeit Goods Lawsuit 39
China Builds 'Elevated Bus' That Drives Over Cars 176
When It Comes To China, Google's Experience Still Says It All 112
Uber and Didi Call a Truce In China With a $35 Billion Deal 45
Amazon Debuts a Dedicated Shop For Kickstarter Products 18
Xiaomi Launches Mi Notebook Air Windows 10 Laptop Featuring 1080p Display, Starts at $520 88
Chinese Giant LeEco Buys Vizio For $2 Billion, Gets Instant Foothold In US Market 56
Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane 157
China Releases Test Footage of Ballistic Missile Defense System 68
China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens 74
CRISPR: Chinese Scientists To Pioneer Gene-Editing Trial On Humans 93
China Wants To Be a Top 10 Nation For Automation By Putting More Robots In Its Factories 141
Samsung Fights Back, Sues China's Huawei For Patent Infringement 24
Amazon Loses Huge Footwear Company Because Of Fake Products, a Problem It Denies Is Happening 347
China Bans Ad Blocking 126
Chinese Consortium's $1.24B Bid To Acquire Opera Software Fails, $600M Deal Agreed Instead 85
Samsung In Talks With BYD To Buy Stake In Electric-Car Maker 13
In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases 173
Maxthon Web Browser Sends Sensitive Data To China 119
Honda Unveils First Hybrid Motor Without Heavy Rare Earth Metals 108
Millions Of Xiaomi Phones at Risk Of Remotely Installed Malware 29
Amazon's Chinese Counterfeit Problem Is Getting Worse 205
Millions of Chinese Stream Reality Shows Starring Themselves 42
A Chinese Ad Firm Is Using Malware to Get More Clicks 26
China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source 96
China Finishes Building Its Alien-Hunting Telescope 64
How China Took Control of Bitcoin 165
'Healing' Detected In Antarctic Ozone Hole, Says Study 95
Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed 73
China Tells App Developers To Increase User Monitoring 47
Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google 97
Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 138
China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips 247
Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent 130
US Company's China Employee Allegedly Stole Code To Help Local Government 49
Eight Of the World's Top 12 Smartphone Vendors Are Based In China 59
Online Loans Made In China Using Nude Pictures As Collateral 118
AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards 48
China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea 101
Smartphone Sales Growth Will Drop To Single Digits In 2016, Says Gartner 78
Xiaomi's Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Featuring OLED Display Launched at $23 72
Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales 112
Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' 66
Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades 501
Qualcomm To Manufacture Custom Chips For Chinese Market 50
China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams 157
Anonymous Hackers Turned Stock Analysts Are Targeting US, Chinese Corporations 111
Lenovo: Motorola Acquisition 'Did Not Meet Expectations' 62
FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers 135
Toyota Forms 'Strategic Partnership' With Uber 92
China's Huawei Sues Samsung Claiming Mobile Patent Infringement 49
Xiaomi Revenues Were Flat in 2015 55
Space Updates From Three Countries 62
Microsoft Finds Legal Path To Launch Minecraft In China 91
China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens 120
Spy Chief: Foreign Hackers May Be Targeting Presidential Candidates 91
Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy 122
Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China 34
China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices 184
Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi 40
Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication With the Dead 114
Renewables Fastest-Growing Energy Sources, Feds Say 70
Apple Loses Exclusive Rights To 'iPhone' Trademark For Non-Smartphone Products In China 89
China Creates World's First Graphene Electronic Paper 92
China Probes Baidu Over False Medical Ads After Student Dies 41
US Steel Says China Is Using Cyber Stealth To Steal Its Secrets 107
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple 127
Obesity 'Explosion' In Young Rural Chinese A Result Of Socioeconomic Changes, Study Warns 165
Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone 145
Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons 111
Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Wants To Give Away Its 'Tesla Killer' Electric Supercar For Free 67
A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel 110
China Plans To Reach Mars by 2020 and Eventually Build a Moon Base 105
Apple Refused China Request For Source Code In Last Two Years: Lawyer 57
NASA: Top 10 Space Junk Missions 68
Twitter Appoints Chief In China With Former Chinese Military Ties 17
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China 14
Feds: TVA Executive Traded Nuclear Information For Cash In Chinese Espionage Case 98
World's Largest Private Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy 235
Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted 88
Solar Panel Developed That Can Generate Electricity From Rain 106
Sophisticated Bribe Scheme Gets Malware Onto Chinese Antivirus Whitelist 20
Architect of China's Great Firewall Embarrassed After Needing To Use VPN 106
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years 101
China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers 109
North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals 127
DJI Files Patent Lawsuit Against Yuneec, Marking Industry's First Legal Fight 33
No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China 83
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million 63
AT&T Looks To Sell Cyanogen-Powered ZTE Phone To Snub Google 74
China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship 60
Chinese QQ Browser Caught Sending User Data To Its Servers 68
Google Scales the Great Firewall, Falls Off 105 Minutes Later 71
Microsoft Releases a Version of Windows 10 For the Chinese Government 90
iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display 113
CCTV DVR Vulnerabilities Traced To Chinese OEM Which Spurned Researchers' Advice 51
South Korea Commits $863 Million To AI Research After AlphaGo 'Shock' 67
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines 67
Alibaba To Train a Million Youngsters In E-commerce 32
Security Firms Say Chinese Hackers Behind US Ransomware Attacks 40
China Criticizes Subsidized Ride-Hailing Apps As Anti-Competitive 75
China Car-Tracking Scheme Could Allow Higher Fuel Prices For Gas-Guzzling Cars 150
China Tries Its Hand At Pre-Crime 99
U8 Smartwatch Engages In Covert Traffic With Chinese IP Behind Your Back 91
Scientists May Have Found Molecular Gatekeeper Of Long-Term Memory 31
Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads And Malware In Their Network Traffic 77
Norway Becomes First NATO Country To Accuse China of Stealing Military Secrets 120
Apple Is Not Such a Freedom Fighter In China 238
Pirated App Store Client For iOS Found On Apple's App Store 55
China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online 110
Uber Losing $1 Billion a Year In China 105
Backdoor In MVPower DVR Firmware Sends CCTV Stills To an Email Address In China 60
Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses 120
China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research 339
Malware Targets Skype Users, Records Conversations 49
Duplicate Login Details Enabled Hack of More Than 20 Million Chinese Consumers 14
China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released 56
China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 143
China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon 101
The FBI Feared Communist Infiltration of EPCOT 112
EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China 143
Verizon Accused of Helping Spammers By Routing Millions of Stolen IP Addresses 120
China Names Chang'e 3 Lunar Landing Site 'Guang Han Gong' Or 'Moon Palace' 83
China's Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub For Innovation 95