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4:07 am
Mon September 24, 2012

Foxconn Closes Plant For 1 Day After Employees Rioted

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Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 4:18 pm

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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.

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And I'm Steve Inskeep. A riot involving at least 2,000 workers broke out late last night at a Foxconn facility in northern China, where employees make iPhones. Foxconn says about 40 people went to the hospital with injuries. Now, in recent years Foxconn has come under intense scrutiny for the working conditions in its factories. Now we have this episode, so we're bringing in NPR's Frank Langfitt, who's following the story from Shanghai.

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Asia
4:07 am
Mon September 24, 2012

North Korea To Announce Economic Changes

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Workers plant rice at a co-op farm in Nampo, North Korea, on May 12. The North Korean leadership has given indications that it may be preparing to implement measures to liberalize the country's economy.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) visits the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute in the country's capital in this undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via the Korean News Service on Sept. 22.
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Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 7:16 pm

An unusual parliamentary meeting is due to open Tuesday in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, amid speculation of sweeping changes ahead. In the first such confirmation from within the country, farmers told The Associated Press they would be given more control over their crops under new agricultural rules. Long seen as an economic basket case, North Korea now could be on the cusp of economic change.

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Business
4:07 am
Mon September 24, 2012

Business News

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Originally published on Mon September 24, 2012 10:10 am

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NPR's business news begins with a media divorce.

Village Voice Media Holdings, the company that publishes the newspaper of the same name, is breaking up with its controversial advertising service. Backpage.com has been accused of facilitating sex trafficking, and activists have been pressuring the Village Voice to shut down its adult classifieds service - so the company is splitting up its portfolio.

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Shots - Health Blog
2:57 am
Mon September 24, 2012

South African Children's Hospital Closed Under Apartheid To Reopen

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The Durban Children's hospital opened in 1931, as a facility for all races, but tensions during the apartheid era forced it to close in the 1980s.
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Now boarded up and in disrepair, the Durban Children's Hospital was designed in the 1920s with stately porches and huge windows facing the Indian Ocean.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 8:08 am

A large children's hospital in Durban, South Africa, is being rebuilt two decades after it closed owing to apartheid. It opened in 1931 as a facility for all races, but racial tensions in the 1980s forced its closure.

Now with Durban and the surrounding province of KwaZulu-Natal extremely hard hit by AIDS and tuberculosis, local leaders are hopeful they can begin reopening the hospital early in 2013.

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Presidential Race
2:26 am
Mon September 24, 2012

Ads Slice Up Swing States With Growing Precision

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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 8:08 am

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