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China blocks results from Hong Kong-based site after search giant redirected users from mainland.

China today rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for lifting restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism as false and damaging to bilateral ties.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He said Google's complaints about cyber attacks and censorship in China shouldn't be "over-interpreted" or linked to Beijing's bilateral relations with the U.S.

Human rights and business groups are among those cheering the move to stop cooperating with censors.

Search engine's threat to pull out of China over censorship puts government in awkward position.

A Santa Barbara software maker has filed a $2.2-billion lawsuit against China, two Chinese software companies and seven computer manufacturers, accusing them of conspiring to steal and disseminate Internet filtering technology.