9/24/2012
Apple Supplier Halts Production After Violence in Chinese Factory
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Which of the following ideas are NOT mentioned in the video you have just watched?
Foxconn, the company that makes Apple's iPhones, has suspended production at a factory in northern China after a brawl that involved as many as 2,000 workers and left about 40 people injured.
The clash erupted late Sunday in a privately-managed dormitory for Foxconn employees who work at the company's factory in Taiyuan.
China's Xinhua news agency says 5,000 police officers were dispatched to the dormitory and about 4 hours later they brought the chaos under control early Monday.
Photographs of the incident that were posted to social networks but later deleted showed smashed windows and riot police, and crowds of workers.
Foxconn says the incident appears to have started as a personal dispute and does not appear to be work related.
A staff member at the Taiyuan plant said he was told the plant could be closed up to two to three days while police investigate.
The Taiyuan plant employs 79,000 workers and manufactures automobile electronic components, consumer electronic components, and precision moldings. It is an important supplier for companies including Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
Foxconn, owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai, is the world's largest contract maker of electronic goods and employs about one million workers in factories across China.
The company has faced scrutiny over complaints about its wages and working conditions.
How about completing the following sentences?
1 - Although 5,000 police officers were dispatched to the dormitory ………….......................
2 - Photographs of the incident were posted to social networks. However ………………….........
3 - In spite of the fact that Foxconn said the trouble started with a personal fight , some people said …………………………...
4 - The plant was closed Monday. Anyway ………………..............
Please ask questions so as to get the following answers
1. Apple's iPhones
2. 2,000 workers
3. at a dormitory
4. Monday
5. A personal fight
6. In Taiyuan
7. 4 hours
8. No, it's not the first incident
9. Poor working conditions and workers mistreatment
10. 1 million
11. I don't know
12. Perhaps