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Paramilitary police vehicles park outside a shopping mall next to a Foxconn Tech-Industry Park in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, September 24, 2012. Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group closed its Taiyuan plant in northern China on Monday after a personal dispute spiraled into a brawl involving 2,000 workers in a dormitory late on Sunday night, injuring 40. REUTERS/StringerAn...
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Apple supplier Foxconn reopened a manufacturing facility in China on Tuesday a day after it closed followingFoxconn spokesman Simon Hsing said the company’s manufacturing facility in the Chinese city of Taiyuan was back to normal, with its production lines in full operation.The Taiyuan facility employs 79,000 workers, and manufactures the iPhone 5, according to labor protection group China Labor Watch.The...
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said.Workers walk past several paramilitary police vehicles near an entrance of a Foxconn Tech-Industry Park as onlookers watch from the outside in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, September 24, 2012.(Reuters) - About 2,000 Chinese employees of an iPhone assembly company fought a pitched battle into the early hours of Monday, forcing the huge electronics plant where they work to be shut down.Authorities in...
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visitBEIJING—A riot at an electronics factory left at least 40 people injured and sparked a response by thousands of police Monday, highlighting how Chinese manufacturers increasingly are caught between restive workers and a slowing economy.It also underscored the complex task ahead for Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. as it works to control costs at facilities that often are the size of small cities.Hon...
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and manufactures components for electronics firms across the globe, shut down a plant in China on Monday following a clash on Sunday night involving 2,000 workers at a company dormitory.While police and company authorities were probing the cause behind the brawl, it was not clear as to how long the plant would remain closed. Nearly 80,000 people are employed at the factory located in the city of Taiyuan...
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Flash floods triggered by record rains in southwestern Pakistan have affected around 700,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, officials said on Monday.At least 51 people have died across the impoverished province of Baluchistan and Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf on Sunday declared three districts as calamity-hit areas.He announced assistance worth 2,600 million rupees...
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TAIPEI, Sept 24 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - 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 immediately clear how long the shutdown would last at the plant, which employs about 79,000 people in the Shanxi provincial...
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple's iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in China on Monday after about 2,000 workers were involved in a brawl at a company dormitory....
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Syrian army soldiers secure an alley in Old Aleppo on Sept 2, 2012. More than 2,000 Syrian soldiers have defected to Jordan since the conflict erupted last year in the neighbouring country, the commander of Jordan's border guards said in remarks published on Monday. -- PHOTO: AFPAMMAN (AFP) - More than 2,000 Syrian soldiers have defected to Jordan since the conflict erupted last year in the neighbouring...
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Armed paramilitary police had to be called in to quell a 2,000-man brawl at the troubled Foxconn factory in Northern China that makes parts for Apple’s iPhone 5, among other products.Around 40 workers were hospitalised in the riot, which began at around 11pm on Sunday night in one of the factory’s dormitory blocks.What started as a dispute between a worker and aggressive security guards in one of the...
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well-known minor accident trouble spot in Wrexham is closed to make way for a new one-way system.The narrow Stansty Road rail tunnel is used as a cut-through by motorists in and out of the town centre.Wrexham council is making the road one-way in a six-week trial to try and improve access for pedestrians.The road has been closed for three days from Monday to allow a wider temporary footway to be built...
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Feb. 20, 2012: A "Nightline" video offered the world its first glimpse into Apple supplier Foxconn's massive Chinese factories, where worker conditions have drawn the world's attention and scorn.The company that makes Apple's iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a brawl by as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory injured 40 people.The fight, the cause of which was under...
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BEIJING (AP) — The company that makes Apple's iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a brawl by as many as 2,000 employees at a dormitory injured 40 people.The fight, the cause of which was under investigation, erupted Sunday night at a privately managed dormitory near afactory in the northern city of Taiyuan, the company and Chinese police said. A police statement reported...
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iron factory in Durgapur had to be closed down today after the management was “disgusted” with two Trinamul factions trying to pull its workers to their sides.The factory’s owner Chandra Bhushan Sharma alleged that two Trinamul leaders from two wards had been coming to his factory separately since the party won the local civic polls in June and trying to drag the workers to attend meetings. “They are...
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