Chinese factory asks for 'no suicide' vowmsnbc.com news services updated 5/26/2010 10:36:27 AM ET
Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., one of Apple's Chinese manufacturers, is asking its employees to sign a pledge that they will not kill themselves as the company tries to control the damage from a spate of suicides among its work force.
The normally secretive Taiwanese company opened its sprawling factory complex in the southern city of Shenzhen to reporters Wednesday after a 19-year-old worker jumped to his death from a building,
the ninth apparent suicide this year at the factory that makes iPods and iPhones.
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