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Article

7 Feb 2007

Author:
Chenyan Liu, CSR-Asia

[PDF] 22 HBVers sacked from Chinese factory [scroll to p.11]

[A] hepatitis B [discrimination] case...involves an electronics manufacture[r],...Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand) PLC (CCET), [which] was established...by Kinpo Electronics (Taiwan)...Its...shareholders are…Kinpo Group..., Far Eastern International Bank..., Chase Nominees Limited 42..., and Compal Electronics ...(part of the Kinpo Group Conglomerate),...HSBC (Singapore), Morgan Stanley, and The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)...The CCET website states that it produces electronics products for major brands worldwide including...Hewlett Packard, Panasonic, Olivetti, Western Digital, Motorola, Advanced Digital Broadcast [ADB], and Nikon...22 workers employed at a factory owned by CCET and located in Wujiang [in China]...tested positive for...the hepatitis B virus...in a routine annual medical checkup. All 22 workers were immediately sacked.