NYT reposts Foxconn story in China, to different reaction

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The paper did translate and publish the comments it got from the Chinese-language business magazine Caixin, which reprinted the original article, and from the popular Chinese social site Wiebo.com, but stuck them in its "The Lede" blog, a relatively obsc...

Jan 27 2012, 11:20pm CST

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