By Royston Chan

SHANGHAI Aug 6, 2010 (Reuters) - A small number of workers at a Panasonic subsidiary factory in China are on strike, employees and Hong Kong media said on Friday, but most of the plant is operating as usual with little impact on output.

The partial walk-out is the latest in a slew of strikes that have hit China's industrial hubs in recent months, as workers demand a bigger slice of profits.

It is one of the smaller disturbances so far -- earlier strikes have shut large plants for days at a time -- but it is one of the first reported in the Shanghai area where wages and conditions are generally better than in southern Guangdong province.

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