Talk:Foxconn under pressure after tenth employee suicide this year

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Overly generous hardship payments[edit]

Chinese language TV news has Guo saying one reason for the suicides is because the company makes over generous hardship payments to the bereaved families, and stopping these payments will help stop the suicides, can I include this with an OR tag.KTo288 (talk) 23:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Try {{Broadcast report}} instead. C628 (talk) 23:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please add your broadcast notes so that we can finish the review. Benny the mascot (talk) 13:50, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
TVBS-Europe (w:TVBS)- takes its main news feed from the Hong Kong version. sorry I didn't add this earlier.--KTo288 (talk) 12:09, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Verifiability[edit]

What are the sources for the following?

  • "bowing as an expression of regret" — None of the sources said he bowed.
    • [1] mentions....[quote]“I offer my sincerest apologies to society, the entire public, all our employees and their families because we had no way of preventing these things from happening,” Gou said as he bowed at a press conference today.[unquote]
  • "...for a work force of over 800,000 the number of suicides is small."
    • [2] mentions... [quote]Noting the figures, Dr. Hynek Pikhart, senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at University College London, said, "The (Foxconn) rates are not probably too high or unexpectedly high."[unquote] ...this is as close as I can come to verify this one....

Benny the mascot (talk) 17:17, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I answered the sources question in the query above....for what I could find to provide confirmation from the sources given.SriMesh | talk 22:40, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing those up. I've made a few changes based on what you've just said, and have resubmitted the article for review. A different reviewer will look at this shortly. Cheers! Benny the mascot (talk) 03:45, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Review of revision 1030427 [Passed][edit]