Rights groups demanded Friday that China end a wide-ranging crackdown on supporters of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, which has ensnared up to 100 activists, civil rights campaigners and scholars.

U.S. high-tech giant Apple has been accused in China of copyright infringement, with a computer screen maker saying it owns the rights to the iPad name in the country, a report said Wednesday.

Apple on Wednesday launched online sales in China and made its App Store available in simplified Chinese, as the U.S. technology giant expands aggressively in the world's largest mobile market.

Dollar issuance by the United States is “out of control,” leading to an inflation assault on China, the Chinese commerce minister said in comments reported on Tuesday.

China may make the most hours of television dramas worldwide, with an average of 35 episodes a day, but its drama series are hardly helping the growing global power conquer the world.

Relatives of those killed in the bloody crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests condemned China's police on Monday for rounding up supporters of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

The number of criminal offences by seniors jumped more than 38 percent in one Beijing district from 2008 to 2010, a reflection of the country's fast-growing gray population.

The calls for reform of China's political system have come repeatedly in the past few months from an unexpected source — the country's premier — and his surprising remarks are stirring consternation and debate in the Communist Party as it prepares for a new generation of leaders.

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned dissident Liu Xiabo encouraged crime in China, the government said Thursday, while telling his supporters to stop interfering in his case.

The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo slammed the government on Wednesday for keeping her under “illegal house arrest” since her husband won the award last week.