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Rapist of 7-year-old girl still at large in Beijing Posted: 29 Dec 2012 12:34 AM PST If you want to read a very disturbing opening paragraph from Global Times, click on its Dec. 27 article about a seven-year-old girl who was raped on Monday while walking to school in Beijing. We'll begin our excerpt from graf no. 2: "This [the rape] is not a good thing. She is a little girl. If other people know this, it will damage her reputation," said father, whose name is being withheld by the Global Times to protect the migrant worker family's privacy. He said the attack happened Monday afternoon as the girl walked the one mile from her home to her school, and that the girl had met the man several times before, adding that so far, the criminal is at large. "When she can check out of the hospital, we will take her to the criminal police. She will then see the footage and detect the criminal," he said. Our reaction is pretty much encapsulated by this comment from Redditor Option84: Hope it was worth it. Enjoy the bullet in the back of your head motherfucker. Girl, 7, seriously hurt in sexual assault [Global Times]

Weekend Reading: New York Times Foxconn Follow-up Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:28 PM PST The New York Times has run a follow-up story to their earlier excellent coverage of Foxconn/Apple China labor problems and mitigation efforts. The article ran early in the week, but I was only able to get to it this morning because of VPN (i.e., technical) issues. The basic take away from "Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China" is that there has been a great deal of work done both within the factories themselves as well as inside the Foxconn and Apple executive offices. The suggestion is that a fundamental shift in thinking has occurred with respect to the treatment of workers. I suppose we'll have to wait and see whether that is a sustainable reality, but taken at face value, it's certainly welcome news. © Stan for China Hearsay, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: apple, foxconn, labor

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