Times Reporter, Photographer, Translator Detained For Nine Hours In Chinese Toy Factory

It always pays to read New York Times articles to their bitter end. Buried deep in a piece about financial problems at toy company RC2, we find out that a Times reporter, photographer and translator were illegally detained at a Chinese factory that was making (!) lead-painted Thomas the Tank Engine toys for the company:

Yesterday, the factory’s zone’s manager was angered after his security guards allowed several journalists to visit the factory and take photographs.

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