Foxconn Sues Two Chinese Journalists Over iPod City Story

[Nomad559]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/08/29/290455/Journalists_sued_over_iPod_story.htm

A Chinese court has frozen the personal assets of a reporter and an editor at a Shanghai newspaper after Apple iPod manufacturer Foxconn sued the pair for 30 million yuan (US$3.77 million) for allegedly damaging its reputation over reports of substandard work conditions.

Foxconn's subsidiary in Shenzhen reportedly petitioned the city's Intermediate People's Court on July 10 to freeze the property of Wang You, a reporter for China Business News, and Weng Bao, an editor at the newspaper. The locked-up assets include apartments, a car and bank accounts.

The company also filed a lawsuit against the journalists, seeking 20 million yuan from Wang and 10 million yuan from Weng. The case is the biggest of its kind on the Chinese mainland in terms of the size of the compensation claim.

[Kutjara]

1. It would be in Apple Corp's best interest...

...to take Foxconn aside and let them know that, unless it ceases it's harrassment of these journalists, Apple will take its iPod manufacturing business elsewhere. Steve Jobs talks a good line about corporate responsibility; let's see if he practices what he preaches.

[acmejack]

2. He sold out long ago.

He quit being a starry eyed idealist about the time, oh about the time, say of neXT. Remember the computer for college kids that ended up being so expensive NO ONE could afford one? It sure was pretty, don't know how it ran, couldn't afford one, I was merely a mid level engineer at GE!