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30 Jul 2007

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Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) [Hong Kong] and Yirenping [China]

Activists accuse firm of targeting hepatitis B carriers [Hong Kong, China]

Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior and Beijing-based Yirenping, a support group for Hepatitis B carriers, displayed signs and shouted slogans for two hours outside a Hong Kong listed electronics company, VTech Holdings, on 30 July 2007...A 23-year-old male university graduate from Hubei Province sued the firm in Dongguan City in January after he was rejected for a vacancy for carrying the virus...[Also mentions Motorola, Siemens, Philips, Foxconn, Sony, and Samsung.]