After nearly a dozen workers committed suicide at a contract manufacturing plant in China, he flew to visit ... One move was to hang large nets from the factory buildings.

Apple says it deployed COO Tim Cook and helped convince Foxconn to attach large nets ... China to help the company better understand Foxconn's culture and look for ways to to prevent the suicide ...

Chinese factory Foxconn is fighting back against its image as a sweatshop that drives its workers to suicide by installing nets to catch ... at all facilities in China, according to Burson ...

In response to the high-profile deaths the company raised wages, installed safety nets on ... the Foxconn suicide cluster, threats of suicide were used by factory workers in China.

installed nets outside some of its factory buildings in Shenzhen, in China’s southeast Guangdong province, in an attempt to quell suicide attempts. In January 2012 a group of 150 workers in a ...

The factory also includes a a safety net draped across the stairwell to prevent accidents or suicide attempts ... up working too many hours. However, China Labor Watch, a watchdog organisation ...

Nets were also reportedly being hung ... 19-year-old employee fell to his death at the Shenzhen factory on Tuesday -- the ninth apparent suicide at the enormous site this year.

The most recent suicide attempt involved a 25-year-old man who slashed his wrists in the factory dormitory Thursday. One additional Foxconn worker in northern China also committed suicide this year.

The elderly man was stationed outside the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, southern China ... a 1.5 million sq m "safety net" to stop people jumping from the factory dormitories and workshops.

His son, a 17-year-old Hubei high school student, committed suicide after being forced to work in a Shenzhen factory as part of ... sort of things can happen in China’s capital of technology ...