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Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages.

Apple, China shake on iPad name with $60m settlement

Apple has paid $60-million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, removing a potential obstacle to sales in the Chinese market.

Beijing says that China and EU must join forces

China concedes that it needs to work together with the EU to solve Europe’s debt crisis.

Families battered by rise in food prices

The global food crisis that dominated headlines in 2008 quickly faded in the US and other rich countries. Not so across the developing world.

China says no limits on Google’s Android

China has assured mobile phone companies using Google’s Android operating system that the technology will be allowed if it complies with regulations.

Google apologises to Chinese rival

Google apologised on Monday to a Chinese rival that complained its data was used by the United States search giant in a new internet tool in an incident that highlighted the…

China cracks down on ‘virtual money’

Regulators have ordered Chinese websites to limit the use of ”virtual money” after concerns that online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade. The order…

Bodies drift at sea after typhoon in China

The death toll from China’s strongest typhoon in five decades jumped to 295 on Tuesday and was expected to climb higher as scores of bodies of fishermen and sailors were found at…

China complains after encryption system rejected

Promoters of China’s controversial wireless encryption system on Tuesday accused backers of a rival United States system of ”dirty tricks” after the world industrial standards…

US lawmaker calls on China to cut trade gap

A leading United States lawmaker warned Chinese officials on Tuesday that Beijing is risking a protectionist backlash in Washington if it doesn’t take steps to cut its -billion…

Last surviving member of China’s Gang of Four dies

Yao Wenyuan, the last surviving member of the Gang of Four, who has died aged 74, was a literary polemicist whose pen, under Mao Zedong’s patronage, launched the Chinese Cultural…

Fire kills 26 in Chinese bar on Christmas

A Christmas Day fire at an unlicensed bar killed at least 26 people and injured eight in a Chinese city near Hong Kong, the government said on Monday. The fire broke out at 11pm…

‘We need peace and reconciliation’

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwan’s opposition leader met on Friday, holding the highest-level talks since the two sides split amid civil war in 1949, with both calling for…