Foxconn Raises Pay For Workers To Prevent Suicides

Chinese workers at Foxconn, the China-based assembler of Apples iPad and other leading consumer electronics brands, are to receive a dramatic 70pc wage rise, raising the prospect of Western customers paying more for their electronic goods. The move, which follows a spate of worker suicides this year at Foxconns factory in Shenzhen, southern China, could also increase industry-wide pressure for higher wages among Chinas factory workers, analysts said.