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Board of steel firm seeks to resign after executive death

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-30 07:39

The four-member board of Tonghua Iron and Steel Group in Tonghua, Jilin province, has applied to resign collectively after an executive was beaten to death last Friday by workers who were afraid of mass layoffs.

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