From RFA:
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong were holding 14 people in custody Tuesday, as a strike at a Taiwan-owned factory continued following clashes involving 1,000 workers in which a woman reportedly died.
The woman, a striking worker of the Li Sen (Boluo) Wood Co., a Taiwan-invested wood processing plant in Boluo county, was said to have died following injuries sustained Monday, when she was hit by a tear-gas canister during clashes.
“A worker died,” one Li Sen worker told RFA’s Cantonese service. “We only learned the news last night. We can’t continue to work under this situation. So now nobody goes to work and all the operations in the factory have come to a halt.”
