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Finally, someone got a helicopter and filmed the Guatemalan Gates of Hell . The 200-feet deep sinkhole—which swallowed a clothing factory—was caused by tropical storm Agatha’s torrential rains.

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Guatemalan Sinkhole Video Is Just as Scary as the Photos [Science]

Another death at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory, only this time it wasn’t a suicide attempt, according to reports. Instead, the 28-year-old man (who’d only married his wife, above, three months ago) died from exhaustion. More

Contrary to a lot of reports, more than just Apple’s products are made at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factories. Nintendo, whose Wii and other products are made there, has announced it shall be investigating the working and living conditions of the factory workers in light of the suicides. [ MarketWatch via Kotaku ] More

Hon Hai Precision Industry has announced that it will raise the salaries of employees at its Foxconn factory by about 20 percent. The company claims that the raises were planned for a while and aren’t in response to recent suicides . More

Today, the 11th Foxconn employee this year jumped from a factory building, and became the 9th to die. This came just hours after Foxconn’s CEO Guo Tai-ming gave his first official response about the numerous tragedies. More

While we’ve all noticed the great deal of international media attention regarding the Foxconn suicides , the local press offers a response all their own in this Chinese cartoonist’s take on the tragedies. More

The stories coming out of Chinese gadget manufacturer Foxconn keep getting worse. Now, there’s a video clip floating around the Chinese internet that shows a group of guards getting physical with some workers.

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Foxconn Guards Allegedly Beat Up Workers On Tape [China]

The stories by Liu Zhi Yi —the undercover reporter inside Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen—were depressing. These photos make them even sadder. Gloomy atmosphere, people fighting, and long lines of unemployed trying to get into the 400,000-people factory.

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Clandestine Photos From Inside Foxconn’s Factory [Suicides]

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop.

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Undercover Report From Foxconn’s Hell Factory [Suicides]

Since last August, 62 workers at Wintek, who supplies Apple with touchscreens for iPhones and iPods, have been treated for N-hexane poisoning, one of whom died from exposure to the illegal screen-cleaning chemical. Now, 44 of the workers from the Wintek factory in Suzhou, China, are planning to sue the company. [ Wired ] More