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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Bloomberg News Security teams wearing riot helmets and wielding plastic shields marched around a Foxconn Technology Group factory that had been the scene of a fight involving 2,000 workers. The campus used by 79,000 workers in Taiyuan in northern...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Reviewer Rob Pegoraro is putting the new iPhone 5 through its paces and keeping a running journal of his impressions...Leave us a comment about what you'd like to see Rob tackle in future updates. qualifies all these figures with the magic...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Wworkers take photos of a car turned over after a brawl by employees at Foxconn's industrial zone in Taiyuan, capital of Northern China's Shanxi province. Associated Press Manufacturing Technology Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is pictured on a BMW near...
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Mother Jones
| 8 months ago
With Chinese worker discontent growing, the melee that shut down a Foxconn plant won't be the last...AM PDT Quickly disappearing from China's tightly controlled internet are disturbing pictures of Sunday night's riot at a Foxconn factory in northern...
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The Beacon Herald
| 8 months ago
A brawl at a Foxconn factory that disrupted production at Apple's main China supplier for 24 hours highlights regimented dormitory life and thuggish security as major sources of labour tension in China. While unrest often flares in China as low-paid...
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Sun Sentinel
| 8 months ago
Foxconn plant reopens after riot Police guard a Foxconn electronics factory in China after a riot forced it shut ... Police guard a Foxconn electronics factory in China after a riot forced it shut for 24 hours. Production resumed on Tuesday (...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Apple has set a new sales record with its iPhone 5 but its triumph was overshadowed by analyst disappointment and riots at a Chinese factory that makes the device. More than 5m handsets were sold in the first weekend they were available, more than...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
A Chinese factory owned by the manufacturer of Apple's iPhones has resumed production after a brawl involving some 2,000 workers highlighted chronic labor tensions in a country that prohibits independent unions. Foxconn Technology Group and police...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Apple sold more than 5 million iPhone 5s through the weekend, a company record. But analysts had been expecting the technology giant to sell as many as 10 million units of its latest smartphone during its first three days of sales. That...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
A Chinese factory owned by the manufacturer of Apple's iPhones has resumed production after a brawl involving 2,000 workers highlighted chronic labor tensions in a country that prohibits independent unions. Foxconn Technology Group said the cause of...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
A Foxconn factory making the iPhone 5 in northern China reopened on Tuesday, a manager said, a day after it shut down following a huge workers' brawl that took 5,000 police personnel several hours to quell. Foxconn -- the world's largest maker of...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
A Chinese factory owned by iPhone assembler Foxconn resumed production on Tuesday after a riot involving 2,000 workers had forced it to close for 24 hours, in an incident that put Chinese labor conditions back under the microscope. The huge factory...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs It's been one hell of a year for Lianne La Havas, from Adele comparisons, a show stopping career-cli... Number 846 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No was asked by Paul Waldman at The Amer... The...
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China News
| 8 months ago
Some 40 people were injured after clashes broke out at a Foxconn Technology Group plant dormitory in the northern city of Taiyuan late Sunday, police said. Workers at the factory, which employs about 79,000 people, told China Daily that the clashes...
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Disinfo.com
| 8 months ago
Authorities in the northern city of Taiyuan sent 5,000 police to restore order. On Monday evening, paramilitary police with riot shields, helmets and batons guarded one entrance of the massive factory complex, while an announcement over loudspeakers...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
September 24, 2012 A massive brawl at a Foxconn plant, which makes some of the components for the Apple iPhone 5, in northern China overnight prompted the deployment of 5,000 police and forced the firm to halt production at the facility, it was...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
More Information Foxconn, which applies and assembles electronics for several top electronics companies, has closed down one of its plants after a fight broke out in a company dormitory in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan. According to the...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs It's been one hell of a year for Lianne La Havas, from Adele comparisons, a show stopping career-cli... Number 846 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No was asked by Paul Waldman at The Amer... The...
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BDNews24
| 8 months ago
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple's iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in northern China on Monday after about 2,000 workers staged a riot at a company dormitory. It was not...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
Members of the military appear opposite the protesters on the streets outside the factor A total of 5,000 police officers were called in to try and regain control of the situation Fences appear to have been pulled down and manufacturing equipment...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
A large-scale incident involving some 2,000 Foxconn Technology Group factory workers has forced the closure of one of the tech supplier's plants in China, the company confirmed Monday. The company described the incident as a "personal dispute between...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Google's new media device the Nexus Q is making headlines not just because of its technology, but due to the one noteworthy feature: unlike most of today's hi-tech products, it is being manufactured in the United States...Foxconn, one of the makers...
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MarketWatch
| 8 months ago
Monday, far outpacing a 0.1% fall in the Hang Seng Index Foxconn's Taiwan-listed parent Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. retreated 0.8% in Taipei compared to a 0.1% rise for the benchmark Taiex. Foxconn was expected to release additional details on...
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The Observer
| 8 months ago
Bobby Yip/Reuters A brawl involving as many as 2,000 workers forced Foxconn to close its Taiyuan plant in northern China late on Sunday, and left a number of people needing hospital treatment. "The fight is over now ... we're still investigating the...
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Arizona Republic
| 8 months ago
The company that makes Apple's iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a fight involving as many as 2,000 employees. The clash, the cause of which was under investigation, erupted Sunday night at a privately managed...
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The Australian
| 8 months ago
THE maker of Apple's iPhone and iPads in China was forced to close its plant after a riot broke out among workers. Foxconn Technology Group's Taiyuan plant in the country's north went into lockdown early this morning after a brawl involving possibly...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Rioting erupted on Sunday at the giant Chinese factory that cranks out Apple iPhones apparently after a worker was hit or beaten by security guards. Police donned riot gear and stormed the Taiyuan plant where Apple's controversial manufacturing...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
The company said several people were hospitalized and detained by the police after the disturbance, which occurred late Sunday, escalated into a riot. Unconfirmed photographs and video that was circulated on social networking sites purporting to be...
