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On January 3, 2012, more than a hundred Foxconn employees stood on the factory building’s rooftop, threatening to commit suicide if their unemployment compensation are not paid. They were very frustrated.
UPDATE: Workers from this Foxconn plant manufacture Microsoft Xbox 360s. A Microsoft spokeperson made a statement on the situation at the plant:
It’s normal to feel down after a relationship ends, but recently a 20-year old female worker at Foxconn’s Taiyuan (capital of Shanxi province) factory killed herself over disappointment in a relationship. Her suicide is not caused by stressful working conditions.
Since the suicide cluster began, we had continuously heard employees fell to death. The victim this time is another young man 18-years-old who had started to work at Foxconn for less than a month.
One of our in field specialists just came back form Shenzhen, and we have some very interesting news from our industry contacts. Apple has been working hard behind the scenes on new products, but there is a large potential for growth within a new group of suppliers. Click past the break for more info!
This. Is. Sad. After an explosion happened at Foxconn’s Chengdu plant last week, the latest news today is an employee at the Chengdu assembly plant leaped to his death from a dormitory building on the grounds of the industrial base on Thursday 1am (May 26) without specifying the reason, said a person familiar with the matter…
UPDATE: The employee jumped from the fifth floor and he died.
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou gives his public comment.
The fascinating iPhone 4 has been too important for this Hong Kong housewives (Mrs.Wong), who felt extremely depress after she accidentally lost her iPhone 4. Because of that, she attempted to suicide and fortunately, it didn’t end up as a tragic.
Oh my god. 2011 has arrived and the Foxconn suicide cluster still continues. Today’s latest news is from the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen. A female engineer, Wang Ling, jumped from her brother’s 10th-floor flat, not from the dormitory in the factory. Due to her mental state problems, Foxconn could not let her carry on working as an engineer. This is the 15th suicide so far, and the first Foxconn suicide in 2011.
This incident is in regard a QQ user (Zhang) organized a suicide meeting and sending invitation to other users, which had one person (Fan) turned up to Zhang meeting. Consequently, Zhang didn’t die as he gave up lastly, but Fan ultimately died. Fan’s parents accused for the act of Zhang, which he met compensation. But more, the court also ruled Tencent has to carry part of the responsibility as a network service provider, finally the company faced compensation up to $55612 RMB (around $7222).
Oh my god. Today morning, another employee of Foxconn leapt to his/her death. This happened at one of Foxconn’s manufacturing facilities in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub of Shenzhen. The death was confirmed by the municipal government. No further information was immediately available. We are sad, and one thing comes to our mind, where are the safety nets? Updated.
Finally, there’s a magazine talking about M.I.C gadget. We have appeared on lots of famous websites such as Engadget and Gizmodo, and now, we are in Shanghai entertainment monthly magazine, That’s Shanghai. They ran a feature on Blog Watch and asked me to be up for an interview, talking about this site and how the Foxconn contents involved have lead to M.I.C getting all the traffic and getting cited in international news. Haha, I’m glad to explain the whole thing. (Interview here)
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