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Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who has been in China this week, continued his trip with a stop at a Foxconn Technology manufacturing plant, a key supplier that has been under scrutiny for work conditions.

Foxconn, one of Apple's Chinese manufacturers, is asking its employees to sign a pledge that they will not kill themselves as the company tries to control the damage from a spate of suicides.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone, insisted its treatment of workers is world class after a female employee became the company's eighth worker to commit suicide.