The problems over at Foxconn have been a highly discussed ... What you may not know is that the factory which produces it, in China, has been the scene of a dozen worker suicides in recent months.

The Foxconn factory is unusual because the Shenzhen, China facility has reported 10 worker suicides, and three additional suicides at other Foxconn facilities. At the All Things Digital D8 ...

There was a wave of suicides among Foxconn workers in 2010 and 2011, prompting Apple and Foxconn to make changes at the factories. Another worker killed himself in January at the Zhengzhou factory.

While much has been made of the working conditions at Foxconn, in large part due to some highly publicized suicides ... a riot in 2012 at one Foxconn factory in Taiyuan in northern Shanxi province.