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 ›

Yet another employee has committed suicide at Foxconn, bringing the total of jumpers at the manufacturer to 11 to try and 9 to actually succeed this year. According to reports, a 19-year-old male from Hunan leapt off a building at the company's training center in southern China. This news comes just four days after the last death, a 21-year-old at the Shenzhen plant. Guess those suicide prevention initiatives, including counselors, song and dance, and fences aplenty, can't come soon enough. For more about the Foxconn suicides, read here. more ›

Following the news of Brad Ferguson's dismissal as manager of Windows Underground, a recent announcement on Smart Shanghai reveals the new guy in charge of the to be Steve Bamford, a DJ who has been playing "all colors of house" around Shanghai and China for the last four years. more ›