> Then in 2010 The stable door is always shut after the horse has bolted. Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, and a household name in China. Insanely high profile

> Then in 2010 The stable door is always shut after the horse has bolted. Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, and a household name in China. Insanely high profile, lots to lose, and relatively little protection. The owner is presumably well connected (he's been running factories in Shenzhen since 1988); but while he'll have some friends who'll bend a few rules, I doubt he has anyone in the right place who will risk their life for him (i.e. a close family member at the top). There were bound to be investigations, and his government connections could have risked execution if they help cover anything up. After the suicides, Foxconn came under heavy attack from the Chinese media. They simply couldn't afford to break any rules after that. I don't know if they did before the deaths (and I doubt they were any worse than many other factories in China), but of course they were squeaky-clean afterwards.