BEIJING - August 13th 2007  The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said today.

Zhang Shuhong, who ran the Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China said that it had temporarily barred exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

Lee Der Industrial Co. made 967,000 toys recalled this month by Mattel Inc.

In Memory.