Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.

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Hon Hai Considers Raises

Ting-I Tsai, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 27, 2010 at 5:30 pm PT

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is weighing the possibility of increasing wages for its factory workers in China but the manufacturing giant said the potential raise isn’t related to a recent spate of employee suicides. A Hon Hai spokesman said the wage change discussion, which predates a wave of suicides at its giant Longhau factory in Shenzhen, flowed from concerns about a tight supply of workers in the southern industrial city where Hon Hai employs more than 400,000 staffers. “It is not related to the suicides,” he said.

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China Mobile Counts on 3G for Its Growth

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 20, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

China Mobile Ltd., the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, is pinning its hopes on new third-generation services such as mobile television and mobile readers to drive growth amid increasing competition and falling voice revenue.