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Are iPad quotas and successes leading Chinese factory workers to suicide?

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Are iPad quotas and successes leading Chinese factory workers to suicide?

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New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, author of Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, has canceled a book tour in China after being told by his Chinese publisher that the tour doesn’t make sense in light of new rules that prevent Chinese media from writing about Google, which recently pulled out of the Chinese market after disagreements with the government over privacy and censorship. According to an AP report, “reporters and editors for China’s state-run media have said they’ve been restricted in what they write about Google, being told to treat the company’s move as a business dispute and to paint Google’s motives as political.” According to Li Yinghong of the state-owned China Citic Press: “We heard from local media who had interest in interviewing the author [but] local authorities don’t like any news and reports about Google at such time due to the company’s decision of exit of Chinese market.” Auletta says he thinks the move might mean his book, which covers historic disputes bet

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