Tag archive: Shenzhen

To avoid paying taxes on expensive electronics, a group of Chinese smugglers attached thin cables to homemade slingshots and crossbows. Firing from the 21st floor of a high-rise complex in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, projectiles were fired over the Sha Tau Kok river into a small village house in Northern Hong Kong. With both sides of the thin wire securely attached to buildings, the smuggling ring packaged iPads and iPhones into black and… Read More

A 25-year-old old employee of China's Foxconn, a mammoth manufacturing company that builds many products for Apple as well as other manufacturers, has committed suicide over the loss of a prototype 4th-generation iPhone that was in his care. The worker jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his apartment building in the southern city of Shenzhen early in the morning of July 16, according to the state run regional paper Southern… Read More

In a case believed to be the first of its kind, state media outlet China Daily is reporting that the guandong Communications Administration has fined a company operating in China's fast-growing southern city of Shenzhen some 5,000 yuan—roughly $630 US—for sending “vast amounts” of spam since the beginning of 2006. China is infamous for running the largest and most expansive Internet regulation and censorship… Read More

The machine, which debuted in Japan in early 2000 and the United States in late 2001, will hit Chinese shelves on December 20 with a price tag of 1,988 yuan ($240). That compares to $179 in the United States. “We have to realize the reality, that piracy cannot be controlled 100 percent, not only in China but also in other parts of the world,” Sony China Chairman Hiroshi Shoda told reporters Friday in an upscale Beijing cinema.… Read More