Apple supplier Foxlink,a maker of iPhone cable connectors,disputed claims on Friday that a company worker committed suicide after being denied a leave of absence,instead suggesting that drug use may have played a role in the worker's death. ...
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How can it be that a company clever enough to satisfy Apple’s famously stringent requirements can’t figure out how to keep its workers from killing themselves and hurting one another? Last week’s riot at a Foxconn ...
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IDG News Service-The family of a worker who committed suicide at an alleged Apple supplier in China is blaming his death on the harsh management at the factory and has tried demonstrating against the company,only to be detained by local ...
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Electronics manufacturer Foxconn maintains that workers making iPhones at a Chinese factory did not strike on Friday and that production wasn't affected,according to published reports. Foxconn's statement contradicts a labor rights ...
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Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd.Executive President Shu Hua recently said mainland China authorities has approved a joint venture plan of his company and the Hon Hai Group to open a solar power plant in Datong City of ...
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Foxconn reportedly registers solar subsidiary in China Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 28 September 2012]Foxconn Electronics(Hon Hai Precision Industry)has registered its solar subsidiary in China,according to news reports ...
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You remember the iPod.The iPod created jobs,but a majority of those jobs were overseas.Electronics manufacturing jobs are mostly overseas,which helps to keep one million workers at China's Foxconn plants busy. In contrast,the majority of ...
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Apple supplier Foxconn reopened a manufacturing facility in China on Tuesday a day after it closed following a mass riot involving 2,000 workers that was later brought under control by local police. Foxconn spokesman Simon Hsing said the ...
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It's probably fair to ask why Japanese electronics maker Sharp--deep in debt and red ink,cutting workers and salaries,awash in excess inventory in the brutal LCD market--is actively promoting a line of talking vacuum cleaners. But the ...
Japan's Sharp said Tuesday it will slash employee salaries by up to 10% from next month, in a round of cost-cutting that will save it about $180 million during the current fiscal year. The manufacturer of TVs and display panels for ...
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Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone has been showing off promotional videos of its upcoming GooPhone 5.But to anyone who has been keeping their eye on leaked prototypes of Apple's next iPhone handset,it may look eerily familiar. The ...
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A labor rights group has accused Samsung of"illegal and inhumane violations"at its factories in China,reporting cases of excessive overtime and exhausting working conditions,with employees being made to stand for up to 12 hours for a single ...
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Troubled Japanese LCD and TV panel maker Sharp said Tuesday it will cut 2,000 jobs domestically,or about 6%of its local workforce,as part of ongoing restructuring efforts. The company said the reduction in staff would come through a ...
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Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
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Sharp has debts of$12.76bn and cash of$2.75bn,according to Bloomberg,and is seeking to shrink its workforce by another 3,000 employees on top of the 5,000 lay-offs announced earlier this month. The company is currently forecasting a$3.2bn ...
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