Nearly one-third of the newly shortlisted companies are from the Chinese mainland, according to a Post analysis of Apple’s supplier list for 2017 and 2020. The increase in the number of mainland companies used by the iPhone maker highlights the importance of China in global hi-tech supply chains.
2021/06/02 19:59 Johnson & Johnson says it only deals directly with governments and supranational groups like the EU Johnson & Johnson says it only deals directly with governments and supranational groups like the EU (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) United States pharmaceutical group Johnson & Johnson will not sell 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines to the Buddha Light International Association (BLIA) because it only deals with governments and supranational organizations, reports said Wednesday (June 2). Private groups in Taiwan, including Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou (郭台銘), have been trying to import vaccines separately from the government, though they still need its approval. After having been approached by the Buddhist group, Johnson & Johnson said it would not directly supply vaccines to third parties, only through governments and bodies like the European Union.
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A fire broke out on Wednesday at a factory in China of Taiwan s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., U.S. Apple Inc. s major supplier, but it did not affect production as there were no casualties, Chinese media reported. The factory in China s southern city of Shenzhen of the electronics maker, internationally known as Foxconn Technology Group, has production lines for Apple s iPhones, according to Taiwan media. Video footage posted on Weibo, China s equivalent of Twitter, showed thick black smoke spewing into the air from some facility. The fire was reportedly extinguished.
Counting the human cost of affordable electronics
Twelve-hour shifts, compulsory overtime and one day off a month are among the practices employed at some China-based factories of Taiwan’s tech giants
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
Few companies have had their names dragged through the mud so comprehensively as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), a conglomerate known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) in Taiwan, which operates vast factories in China and other countries.
The first time many people outside of Taiwan heard of Foxconn the world’s largest manufacturer of consumer electronics was in 2010, when a string of employee suicides attracted global interest.