Posted on 08/13/2007 10:01:27 AM PDT by swilliams53
The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday. Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said. Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint found to have excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters. It was among the largest recalls in recent months involving Chinese products, which have come under fire for globally for containing potentially dangerous high levels of chemicals and toxins. The Southern Metropolis Daily said that a supplier, Zhang's best friend, sold Lee Der fake paint which was used in the toys. "The boss and the company were harmed by the paint supplier, the closest friend of our boss," a manager surnamed Liu was quoted as saying. Liu said Zhang hung himself on Saturday, according to the report. It is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China. "When I got there around 5 p.m., police had already sealed off the area," Liu said. A company official who answered the telephone at the Lee Der factory in the southern city of Foshan on Monday said he had not heard of the news. A man at Lee Der's main office in Hong Kong said the company was not accepting interviews and hung up. According to a search on a registry of Hong Kong companies, Zhang — whose name is spelled Cheung Shu-hung in official documents — is a co-owner of Lee Der.
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Okay, why didn’t the guy who sold the fake paint kill himself instead of the toy company president? That’s who really ought to be responsible.
“There one in the chamber use it wisely!”
Free Trade is the biggest scam of our times.... You don’t give 3rd world corrupt nations open access to your markets. I hope fisher price is sued out of existence for their involvment.. they knew the risks, and still decided cheaper was more important than safer.
American corporations have betrayed this nation, with our government being their willing accomplice.
Take a number and watch. They are calling is number now!
One of my all time favorite games! When we played the actual game. Mostly we would just mantle and dismantle the “trap”.
In the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with
intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death “by the visitation of God.”
“Free Trade is the biggest scam of our times.... You don’t give 3rd world corrupt nations open access to your markets. I hope fisher price is sued out of existence for their involvment.. they knew the risks, and still decided cheaper was more important than safer.
American corporations have betrayed this nation, with our government being their willing accomplice.”
WHAT HE SAID
Zi Beijia, 28, pleaded guilty..."
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...but received leniency after Dan Rather testified by affadavit from Kinko's that the story was fake but accurate.
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