From AP via The Wall Street Journal:
A maker of Apple Computer Inc.‘s iPod has cut its demand for defamation damages over a newspaper report that it mistreated its workers to a symbolic one yuan (12.6 cents) following a wave of bad publicity.
Hongfujin Precision Industry Co. said it was reducing its demands for damages from a pair of Chinese journalists from 30 million yuan ($3.8 million) “to avoid blurring the issue because of the great public attention on the target of the injunction.” The company also said it was withdrawing its request that the court handling the case freeze the journalists’ personal assets.
The dispute highlights challenges big companies face in living up to their codes of conduct while outsourcing production. It also reflects the pressures Chinese journalists confront in doing their jobs.[Full Text and Subscribers Only]
Also see CDT post Chinese bloggers & journalists force Foxconn climbdown
