Foxconn Admits Breaking Labor Laws In China
Foxconn, an original equipment manufacturer for Apple’s iPod, has admitted that their employees work about 80 extra hours each month, which is against the law in China.
According to Chinese labor laws, a company breaks the law if it asks employees to work more than 36 extra hours each month.
However, Li Zong, a spokesperson from Foxconn, [...]
Innovation Best Antidote for Piracy in China
“A lot of the piracy is done with a nudge-nudge, wink-wink type of thing,” Emily Miao, an intellectual property attorney with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago said. “That’s clear when you walk through the streets and see all these low-quality brand-name goods for sale and see police officers walking everywhere and nobody is [...]
Maxthon: China’s hip browser
Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following in the Middle Kingdom.
Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name, has attracted millions of users in China for functionality that can funnel traffic through a Web proxy [...]
Will science follow Stephen Hawking to Beijing?
Like an otherworldly emperor, Stephen Hawking rolled his wheelchair onto the stage of the Great Hall of the People on Monday, bringing with him the royalty of science and making China, for this week at least, the center of the cosmos.
Slouching in profile, draped in black and moving no more than an eyelid to send [...]
China blocks search engines of popular Chinese portals
Chinese authorities have blocked the search engines of two of the country’s most popular web portals as part of their efforts to censor the Internet.
The search engines at Sina.com and Sohu.com have been shut down since noon Monday. Searches conducted on Tuesday brought up messages saying the sites were undergoing upgrades.
“As of yesterday noon, all [...]
China vows to better protect copyright on Internet
The Chinese government has passed a new regulation to ban the uploading and downloading of Internet material without the copyright holder’s permission.
Under the regulation, effective from July 1, anyone uploading texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must acquire the permission of the copyright owners and [...]
