Is Apple Dangerous?

Yesterday's Cambodia Daily ran two articles about Apple products.

On page 18, an article by Paul Harris (The Observer) was titled, 'Apple Hit by Calls for Boycott Over Worker Abuses in China'. To summarise, the New York Times' has published allegations of poor working conditions in some of its networks of Chinese suppliers. Conditions are compared to bonded labour, with staff working obscenely long shifts in unhealthy conditions with few labour rights. The article refers to explosions at iPad factories (that killed four people) and a separate incident in which 137 workers were injured after cleaning iPhone screens with a poisonous chemical.

On page 26, the Daily published another story, 'Police General Beats Bank Staffer with iPhone'. Huh?! The Poipet branch of Canadia Bank filed a complaint, alleging that Major General Sok Lihhouth's wife tried to cash a cheque for $14 559.28. The cheque was in her husband's name. When the bank attendant declined, Sok Lihhouth entered the bank about 10 minutes later. The major general yelled, 'Don you know who I am?' while unleashing blows on the teller with his iPhone. Branch director said that beating was captured on security cameras.

Two stories in one paper in one day: Apple is hit by call for boycott and a Poipet man is hit by an Apple iPhone. Weird.