labor - Guangdong strikers call for higher wages

Another high-profile strike has hit Guangdong province in southern China, the International Herald Tribune reports, based on reports in Chinese media.

The strife erupted on Friday morning at the Futai Wool Mill in Zengcheng, near Guangzhou, and eyewitnesses said as many as 4,000 workers were at the factory gates, blocking traffic and chanting "raise our wages," the Guangzhou-based New Express reported on Saturday.

What is interesting about this article is not the news of the strike, but the fact is has been brought to us by Chinese media. Why was this news not banned? That would have been the standard procedure.