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Article

14 May 2010

Author:
Daniel Shane, Information Age

Spate of suicides at Chinese supplier to HP and Dell

The sixth employee suicide this year at electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Group...has...raised moral questions about the industry's use of certain Chinese suppliers. Earlier this week, a 24-year-old worker at the company's Longhua facility in southern China died after jumping from her apartment... Foxconn, the primary brand under which Hon Hai Group operates,...is a key supplier of electronic components for use in Dell and HP computers, as well as Apple's iPod... [A] Foxconn media spokesperson told the state-run newspaper China Daily: “We will do everything we can to prevent such accidents in the future.”... [C]ommentators in the Chinese media have claimed that the incidents reflect a poor working environment at the company... An Apple spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that the company took "such concerns seriously". [also refers to France Telecom]