Foxconn, the Taiwanese giant and a major manufacturer for the US based Apple Corp, has a problem.  Employees keep dying or trying to commit suicide.  In the latest case on April 6 an eighteen year old worker surnamed Rao leaped from her seventh floor accommodation at the company’s factory in Guanlan, Shenzhen, at about 3:20 pm following an altercation with her boyfriend, Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun told China Daily.   The incident comes eight days after a 23 year old worker fell from a 14th floor of the dormitory building at the same factory.  Liu said Foxconn is providing psychological counseling to its near 400,000 workforce in Shenzhen.  It seems like more than counseling is required.  The Times Online reported in July 2009 that a Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing a prototype iPhone.  The factory worker leapt to his death after allegedly being beaten by security guards. (more…)