Joy of joys! Foxconn has now said it plans on raising wages for its Chinese workers by around 20%. The company faced a whole slew of suicide attempts yesterday, flack over some of its perhaps hastily constructed anti-suicide measures, and can expect independent investigations into working conditions from Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Will the 20% wage increase be enough to stop the jumpers? It's hard to say - for reasons excellently outlined by The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore - but it's infinitely more helpful than the non-suicide pact Foxconn soon had to retract. For more news on the matter, click here. more ›

Plans are in motion for the much anticipated launch of an Android device for China between February and March 2009, but unlike the US launch of the T-Mobile G1 handset, China Mobile has decided not to work with Taiwanese PDA manufacturer HTC and has instead opted for working with Lenovo Mobile to release it's first Google powered phone. more ›