Business | June 13, 2009
A Santa Barbara company said Friday that the Internet-filtering software that China has mandated for all new personal computers sold in that country contains stolen programming code.
California | Local | Carla Hall | June 12, 2009
The long-awaited golden monkeys from China have some bad news: They're not coming to the Los Angeles Zoo. The arrival of the exotic blue-faced simians was part of a deal struck during a 2002 trade trip to China by former Mayor James K.
Business | David Pierson | June 10, 2009
The order by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was unprecedented in scope: All personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 would have to include government-sponsored Internet filtering software.
Business | David Pierson | June 4, 2009
Would Confucius drive a Hummer? News that an obscure Chinese company has reached a tentative agreement to buy the bankrupt General Motors Co.'s Hummer unit has people here pondering the larger meaning of Chinese ownership of the mother of all gas guzzlers.
World | Barbara Demick | June 3, 2009
There is no twittering about Tiananmen Square, or anything else, in China this week. In a crackdown apparently timed to the 20th anniversary Thursday of the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations, the Chinese government has pulled the plug on the social networking site Twitter and dozens of other Internet sites and blogs.
Business | Jim Puzzanghera | May 30, 2009
When Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner arrives Sunday in Beijing, he will have to begin assuring the Chinese that their vast holdings in federal bonds are safe and that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to preserve the value of the American dollar.
Business | Don Lee | May 27, 2009
Like everybody else in his farming village, Zhan Changchun used to get around on a bicycle. This month, the 29-year-old walked into a local dealership, pulled out $7,300 in cash from his leather satchel and drove away with the family's first car: a seven-seat micro-minivan that's jointly produced by China's Wuling and General Motors.