"Buy directly from Apple. And choose your carrier," says the Apple Store (Hong Kong). The Hong Kong Apple Store is offering the 8GB Apple iPhone 3G for HK5,400 (about $695) and the 16GB Apple ...

“We want to buy as many as possible,” one Russian buyer, Nick Alexenkov, told CNN outside the Apple store in Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping district in Hong Kong. Moscow’s invasion of ...

When it later appeared on the App Store, there was a sharply-worded response in official Chinese media. The removal then came after "many concerned customers in Hong Kong contacted us", Apple said.

This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. “Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.” Long-time Apple commentator John Gruber wrote ...