Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A 10th. suicide at Taiwan iPhone firm Foxconn in China...

A 19-year-old employee of Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn died Tuesday after falling from a building at the company's plant in southern China -- the 10th such death this year, state media reported.

The deaths, which are apparent suicides, have raised questions about the conditions for millions of factory workers in China, especially at Foxconn, where labour activists say long hours, low pay and high pressure are the norm.

But the group's founder Terry Gou on Monday denied that Foxconn's employees were being worked too hard and driven to kill themselves, saying he was not running "blood and sweat factories". More..

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