Foxconn suicide toll rises as 13th worker dies

A Chinese court sentenced three people to prison after they were found guilty of having revealed iPad 2 trade secrets. The three persons, Xiao Chengsong, Lin Kecheng and Hou Pengna, will have to spend the next 18 months, 14...

The recent explosion at one of Foxconn's Chinese assembly plants, which left three workers dead and several severely injured, could call the company's relationship with Apple into question according to industry...

Foxconn, an Apple supplier most famous for the recent spate employee suicides, was recently inspected by an outside organization to evaluate its treatment of employees. The watchdog group Students & Scholars Against...

Apple’s iPhone and iPad supplier Foxconn forced its employees to sign a ‘no suicide’ pact after a series of suicides by employees in Foxconn factories across China.The new revelation is a part of a report...

Apple's manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Electronics, has cranked up its iPad output to an additional 10 thousand units per day to meet what is expected to be a Yuletide iPad rush. According to Digitimes, component...

Another worker at a Foxconn factory in China fell to a grisly end yesterday, apparently avoiding the nets the company said it would install to catch flying workers. State news organ Xinhua said it had learned of the fatality...

Chinese newspaper The Global Times is carrying a report that claims manufacturing giant Foxconn is likely to come under renewed pressure when details of a survey into its treatment of employees are published The report says...

Reports of reception problems have caused demand for the Apple iPhone 4 on the grey market in China to plummet, with sellers slashing the price of the handset by up to 70 per cent. Official Chinese news site China Daily reports...

Foxconn, which assembles hardware for leading US and European electronics firms, has announced that it will be increasing its prices to customers in order to help cover recent wage rises for its employees.The company, a...

The Chinese-based technology manufacturer Foxconn has announced that it will be outsourcing the management for its workers' dormitories to two local Chinese property companies.Foxconn Group, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Hon...

China's decades-old 'one child' policy has led to labour shortages that could see an end to the country's reputation as a low-wage economy. The policy, introduced in 1978 to combat the country's rising population in the wake of...

Taiwan's richest bloke, Hon Hai Group chairman Terry Gou has come up with another cunning ruse to stop his workers topping themselves. After planning to install nets around his iPhone-making Foxconn plants to catch the falling...

Steve Jobs has come out in full support of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company that provides manufacturing and packaging services to Apple, following the recent string of suicides at its Chinese factories.Speaking during a...

Apple is to offer financial incentives to Foxconn factory workers following the suicides of 10 employees.Foxconn came under scrutiny from global human rights groups following a number of unexplained suicides at the company's...

Hon Hai Group, owner of the Foxconn factories at which workers are so happy they regularly jump from the windows in order to end it all, said it is considering increasing wages at its facilities, in order to try and keep some...