Ever been a dissatisfied consumer? One Lamborghini owner took matters into his own hands - or rather paid people with hammers to do so.

Dignitaries in Norway honored this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, with an empty chair.

Liu wasn't able to collect the prestigious award in Oslo on Friday because he is being held in a Chinese prison. Beijing is infuriated at the Nobel committee for awarding the Chinese dissident the prize. They clamped down on coverage of the event - blocking Western news websites and blacking out any Western television reports on the honor.

Adrienne Mong, NBC News' Beijing correspondent, responded to readers' questions about China's response to the Nobel Peace Prize. Read the discussion at the link above.

As Oslo gets ready to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human rights activist, Liu Xiaobo, China has been hard at work preparing for a media storm. Amnesty International claims hundreds of people have been detained, interrogated or arrested by the Chinese government ahead of Friday's award ceremony.

Read profiles of 10 prominent Chinese social activists who in 2010 have been jailed, put under house arrest or, in one case, even denied access back into China.

The cyber cold war between China and the U.S. just got a little chillier. Twice this year, China demonstrated its ability to "substantially manipulate" the Internet, a congressional commission said in a report issued on Tuesday. In one incident, traffic headed to 15 percent of the world's websites was redirected through Chinese servers for about 20 minutes.

The high-level hijacking included bits and bytes headed for the U.S. Senate, the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the secretary of defense, NASA, and other government offices, along with commercial entities like Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, the report said.

Chinese officials disputed the findings. But several technology firms said
they charted the hijacking in April.

Read more in Bob Sullivan's Red Tape Chronicle blog.

"My father is Li Gang" has become a bitter inside joke in China, a catchphrase for shirking responsibility with impunity, in the wake of a recent scandal.

The Communist Party's efforts to supress a story about a poor young farm girl who was killed in a hit and run accident by the son of a local official backfired. Much of China knows the story and government's efforts to control it has inspired intense scorn.

Get an intimate look at life at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China. Foxconn is famously the manufacturer that produces iPhones — and a lot of other best-selling electronic gear. But infamously, it's where workers have been known to commit suicide, possibly from job-induced stress