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Electronics maker in China promises review after string of suicides

SHENZHEN, China -- Struggling to cope with a rash of suicides at his company’s electronics factories here, the chairman of an electronics maker that supplies Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard* said Wednesday that he was doing everything possible to find a solution.

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Foxconn, which has about 420,000 employees on two campuses in Shenzhen, is known for its military-style efficiency, the awesome scale of its production operations and for manufacturing popular products like the Apple iPhone. But this year the company has come under intense scrutiny because of a string of suicides by distressed workers between the ages of 18 and 24

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*nice to see Rhys Darby of Flight of the Concords Fame in those HP TV ads.