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Edmund Ding is part of the same propaganda machine that, to this day, no protesters were harmed during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Don't even get me started with Mao's denial that he personally cause six million men, women and children to starve to death.

But hey, I gots to get me the latest Dave Mathews, no matter what the cost!
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i hope you're not as ignorant as you seem to be. hon hai is a taiwanese company with factories in china. edward ding is most likely a taiwanese employer, and has as much to do with tianamen as you do. part of the same propaganda machine? that's like blaming toyota for the war in iraq.]]>Jun 19th 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/
The reporting capabilites of the daily mail are abysmal, up there with our other tabloids.

and you lot think USA today is bad...

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When I was there two Christmas ago, he gave away TVs, washers, microwaves, ipods, DVD players, ton and tons of cash gifts away at an annual company talent show they have every year.

Most westerners would kill to have this good of treatment from their employer.

Of course he grew up during the Cultural Revolution dirt poor in a rural town. He used to eat dirt just to have something in his stomach. So now he tries to help people from his home town and other rural area get educated and skilled in the hopes that they will have some company loyalty. People he hires from the bigger cities usually end up just competing with him after they learn the business.

China has plenty of crappy working condition factories, but most that are large international businesses I have been to are actually pretty nice. Not as modern as say Japanese factories but slowly working towards that.

Oh and he also spent millions cleaning up the heavily polluted land surrounding the factories and building traditional Chinese gardens and lakes and clean river areas.]]>Jun 19th 2006 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/
Factories in developing countries are different to first world countries. Workers are there because they can get better wages than their home town. These factories exist so that we don't have to pay $1000/iPod to American factory workers.

There'll always be deficiencies in whatever factory one examines. But let's put it in perspective. This story doesn't deserve the sensationalism it is receiving!]]>Jun 19th 2006 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/
Cmon, you're acting like the profit margin on Apple products is tight.

Apple is charging the maximum the market will bare. That price is not likely to change, so decent wages would just mean that Steve Jobs net worth would be $4.5 billion instead of $5.5 billion.]]>May 28th 2010 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/May 28th 2010 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2006 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 20th 2006 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/The original article did mention Foxconn, but the location is down south (Suzhou is outside of Shanghai), and it also managed that Foxconn is putting millions into Suzhou (which is possible/likely, as it is the hitech centre for central coastal China).]]>Sep 19th 2006 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/19/foxconn-denies-ipod-sweatshop-accusations/Jun 19th 2010 3:08PM