Apple halts iPhone 4S retail sales in China after store hit with eggs

The Malaysian Insider, 13 Jan 2012
BEIJING, Jan 13 — Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the popular iPhone 4S as scheduled.
Scuffles broke out before daybreak between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited in line overnight in sub-freezing weather, after an announcer with a bullhorn told the restless crowd around 7am that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should go home. Full story