<div class="header-sections-wrapper"><h2 class="header-sections" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(China&India Today Friday 30 September 2016)</span></h2></div><div class="block block-views even" id="block-views-article-title-block"><div class="view view-article-title view-id-article_title view-display-id-block view-dom-id-0c48676d9b1618c5730668397cc84e31"><div class="view-content"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"><div><span><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">China state TV accuses Samsung of ‘discrimination’ in Note7 recall</span></h1></span> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="block block-views odd" id="block-views-abbbed293fc232acd042f79d5c8059a0"><div class="view view-article-main-highlight-view view-id-article_main_highlight_view view-display-id-block view-dom-id-b097d4f0a408f79eff5289fd27842f4c"><div class="view-content"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last" style="text-align: center;"><article class="node-2434026 article node node-article node-promoted view-mode-highlight_article clearfix" about="/chinaindia/china/china-state-tv-accuses-samsung-discrimination-note7-recall" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"><header><a title="A Samsung Electronics display booth during an electronics expo in Beijing. Photo: AP" href="http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/photo_gallery_image_lightbox/public/photos/43_images/27581404.JPG?itok=G3C-tCwH" rel="lightbox"><img width="560" height="420" style="clear: none; float: none;" alt="China state TV accuses Samsung of ‘discrimination’ in Note7 recall" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.todayonline.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fphoto_gallery_image%2Fpublic%2Fphotos%2F43_images%2F27581404.JPG%3Fitok%3DnrY_ebAQ" typeof="foaf:Image"></a> </header><div id="photo-highlight"><div class="description"><strong>A Samsung Electronics display booth during an electronics expo in Beijing. 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Once the No 1 mobile phone vendor in China, Samsung dropped out of top five in 2015, hit by the strong growth of domestic brands like Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Earlier in September, after a meeting with China’s quality safety watchdog, Samsung China issued a brief statement saying 1,858 Note 7 devices sold in the country as part of a test scheme before the official launch would be recalled.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Most Note 7s on sale in China have batteries from a different supplier and are not part of its global recall of 2.5 million phones announced on September 2, Samsung said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">But after anecdotal reports of a handful of Note 7s catching fire in the mainland, Samsung China issued a statement on Thursday apologising to Chinese consumers for a “lack of sufficient explanation” on what it said were safe Note 7 phones in China.</span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> REUTERS</span></strong></p><div class="social-links"><div class="item-list"><ul class="clearfix" id="social-links"><br></ul></div></div></div></article></div></div><p><br></p>
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