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Photos: China's street pirates
Copy of Microsoft Windows, sir?

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Opinion: China's IPR woes
Trading long-term losses for short-term gains?

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2008 Olympics - the IT ground work in China
Preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are already underway - including design, planning and testing of the IT systems that will underpin the event...

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Big bucks in China's software industry
Creativity and innovation - can China's workforce conquer the software and outsourcing world? We ask the experts...

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Photos: An internet café in China
A packed internet café full of young gamers? Sounds familiar. But have you heard of the racing game out of Korea that carries in-game ads?

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China's internet revolution
The Western view of the internet in China seems dominated by concerns over free speech. It's a big issue but it risks overshadowing everything else going on there.

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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition
In his final blog from China, Peter Cochrane compares education in the country to the situation in the UK 50 years ago - and illustrates how history is repeating itself yet again.

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Breaking China: Tech trend-spotting in a burgeoning economy
American entrepreneur Sage Brennan discusses doing business in China and spots the biggest trends in media and technology.

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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane addresses the issues Western companies must be thinking of as so many manufacturing jobs are moved to China - and it's not just about losing jobs per se.

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Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on
A few weeks after Dan Ilett's trip to China, silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane also ventured to the booming country. Here are some of his initial impressions of how China has changed in the more than two decades since he last visited.

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Breaking China: ChinesePod takes on language learning
Another overseas entrepreneur, Hank Horkoff, speaks frankly about horror stories, fitting in and making money.

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China's future - a stroll in the tech park
Commercial, R&D, manufacturing - even residential. There are plenty of purposes China's technology parks now serve. We talked to the developers...

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Breaking China: One entrepreneur's decade of change
Micah Truman has grown his online marketing business organically in China since 1994 - as an outsider. Here, he shares his tips for success.

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BPO in China - beyond the cities you know
Provinces compete for business...

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Dan's China diary - day 21
Some final thoughts...

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Photos: Hong Kong's Octopus card
Much like London's Oyster, the Octopus card can be used Hong Kong's public transport. But unlike Oyster it can also be used for mobile payments for everything from vending mahchines to parking tickets.

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Dan's China diary - day 20
Registering for an ID card in HK and meeting Alibaba

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Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards
Does London aspire to Hong Kong's micropayments success?

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Dan's China diary - day 19
To Hong Kong and its contrasting business landscape

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Photos: Inside Huawei's Chinese HQ
The comms equipment giant in Shenzhen...

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Dan's China diary - day 18
What goes on at Huawei's campus

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Dan's China diary - day 17
To Shenzhen - and a brush with those selling pirated copies of Windows

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Dan's China diary - day 15
A Saturday on the street, saying goodbye to Shanghai

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Photos: Microsoft in China - a snapshot of R&D activities
The case for digital pens - which Mozart might have loved to use

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Dan's China diary - day 14
A Friday night on the town and a chance encounter with a government official

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Dan's China diary - day 13
"I hate to admit defeat. But it's been tipping down with rain and I'm soaked"

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Dan's China diary - day 12
Of PRs and entrepreneurs...

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Photos: Inside Tsinghua University's Incubator
A look at China's up-and-coming companies...

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How China's universities fuel tech growth
The links between academia and business are complex in China. This article catches up with some of the brains of tomorrow and their tech aspirations.

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Dan's China diary - day 11
The politics of property redevelopment and a night on the Bund...

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Dan's China diary - day 10
An overheard conversation about 3G...

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Dan's China diary - day 9
Being Alan Partridge in Shanghai...

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Dan's China diary - day 8
A day with a Chinese family - who pioneered the internet café

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Photos: Inside Nokia's Beijing factory
Get a peek inside a Chinese factory which produced 200 million Nokia phones last year. It's one of four plants the company runs in China.

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Dan's China diary - day 7
An unusual Nokia factory tour...

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Dan's China diary - day 6
The phenomenon of Tsinghua University, Yashou evening market and a sophisticated book club...

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Dan's China diary - day 5
Tales of PRs, the Wall (again) and the next 'Silicon Valley'...

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Dan's China diary - day 4
Mistaken identity, a guqin serenade and an underground gay club...

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Leader: Why go 'Inside China'?
Seen from a distance through a media lens, it's easy to reduce China to a set of clichés but there's a much more complex tale to tell about this still largely poor nation that also has an educated, ambitious elite driving tech innovation.

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The big picture - China's tech scene
Technology is fuelling China's economy in a big way now - but there's still plenty of room for growth and you can bet tech will play an even bigger role in the future.

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Dan's China diary - day 3
Expats and expensive dinners...

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Dan's China diary - day 2
From the Great Wall of China to the Forbidden City...

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Dan's China diary - day 1
"What's it like living in a communist country?"