Chinese employees at Microsoft's Nokia arm protest mass layoffs

BEIJING: "Hundreds" of Chinese employees at Microsoft Corp's Nokia phone business protested on Friday against mass layoffs that the US tech company announced last month, according to an employee present and pictures posted on social media networks. 

Protesters held banners and shouted slogans against "Microsoft's hostile takeover and violent layoffs" for five hours until "they had sore throats," said the employee who participated in the demonstration and so declined to be identified.