Foxconn, which produces electronics and computer components for Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other global companies, has been struggling this year to explain a string of suicides among young workers at its huge complexes in the city of Shenzhen, where the company employs about 420,000 workers.
Some labor rights groups have accused Foxconn of operating military-style factories and abusing workers. They also have called some of the deaths suspicious and have asked for an independent investigation.
Read more: String of Suicides Continues at Electronics Supplier in China by David Barboza (New York Times)
