Throughout 2010, especially during the first two quarters, Foxconn was plagued by what could be seen as wave of suicides, and it seems that similar things have started to happen, as another fatal fall happened at the end of the first week of January.
Last year, deaths happened in a fairly quick succession at Foxc... |
15 January 2011
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A shareholders meeting of the Hon Hai Group, Foxconn's parent company, reportedly saw Chairman Terry Gou saying that production would be withdrawn from mainland China and shifted to Taiwan, Vietnam, and India, a move that would render close to a million workers unemployed. Foxconn’s facility in Shenzhen, w... |
11 June 2010
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The giant Chinese electronics manufacturer and Apple partner known as Foxconn has reportedly promised another raise to its factory workers, in an effort to further eliminate bad press. Following reports of around a dozen suicides occurring at the Chinese company’s facilities, Foxconn will pay 66 percent more to... |
7 June 2010
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Foxconn has reportedly raised the pay for all of its Chinese production workers by 30 percent, as of June 1st, according to parent company Hon Hai. Shift hours, however, remain an unresolved issue, reports say, while the pay raises are reportedly not about suicides, but rather because of a shortage of skilled laborer... |
3 June 2010
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Chinese media reports claim that Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to raise workers' salaries by around 20 percent at its Foxconn unit in China, further addressing an overflow of worker suicides and rising public anger, msnbc reports. The news comes soon after Foxconn, which assembles Apple’s iPhone and iP... |
28 May 2010
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As Foxconn rushes to clear up an image that became progressively tarnished due to multiple worker suicide reports, Chinese state media now informs that another employee fell to his death yesterday at the company's plant in southern China. This makes the 11th such death this year, the Sydney Morning Herald points... |
27 May 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Apple has involved itself in the investigation of suicides at Foxconn (Hon Hai), the company’s manufacturing partner responsible for producing the popular iPhone and now the iPad as well. The Chinese manufacturing facility has made headlines on numerous accounts concerning worker suicides, one of which involved... |
26 May 2010
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A suicide report issued by Business Week today is likely not tied to the latest missing iPhone prototype, yet news of a worker at Hon Hai Group killing herself comes extremely close to the unveiling of another such device. Hon Hai Group, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, confirmed that a... |
12 May 2010
09:45 GMT |
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The iPhone 3G hasn't even been properly introduced yet and analysts are already forecasting large quantities to be sold - some 18 million units, to be precise. Jenny Lai, analyst with the Hong Kong-based CLSA Emerging Markets, says that Apple has hit the sweet spot for consumers by pricing the 8GB model of the n... |
11 June 2008
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. in Taiwan, has been contracted by Apple to work on a new iPhone, most likely the 3G version of Apple's popular handset. People familiar with Apple's plans, however, have declined to provide further insight on what the new iPhone will bring or when the Cupertino-based company p... |
31 March 2008
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