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Foxconn: What more to say
On Wednesday night yet another young Foxconn employee jumped to his death.
The official Xinhua news agency reports that an initial police investigation into this latest death said it was a suicide. The young man—23 years old—jumped from the balcony of a dormitory in Shenzhen (China). He started work at the EMS-provider in June last year.
This is now the 10th death by jumping since the beginning of the year alone (+2 attempts) at the facility, drawing wide media coverage on low cost manufacturing and working conditions in these regions.
Image: President of Foxconn Terry Gou bows for apology after a string of suicides by the company's employees at a plant of Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, on May 26, 2010. © Xinhua
