Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, which is owned by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Group, said on Thursday that it is planning to raise wages for its workers in China by about 20 per cent after at least 10 workers have died this year from apparent suicides — half of them in May.
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