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Worker suicides prompt probe [China]
An investigation has been launched at a stationery company [Nanshan International Stationery] in…Guangdong province, after two employees committed suicide…a male worker [and]…a female worker…[were] killed after…[jumping] from…the factory's [buildings]…An executive from the Hong Kong-funded stationery company…did not comment on the case. Relatives said the two victims committed suicide due to their heavy workload and poor treatment by their supervisors, but executives from the factory said the suicides may have been due to personal problems, according to the Dongguan Times…Li Juan, an associate research fellow at the law research institute under the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, said migrant workers usually faced a heavy workload.