For investors in Taiwan’s $841bn (€745.5bn) stock market, Tim Cook matters more than president Tsai Ing-wen.

Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, which assembles the bulk of Apple’s latest smartphones, saw its December revenues slump by a fifth and full-year sales miss expectations.

Apple reported its first profit decline since 2003 and forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates amid slowing iPhone sales growth and accelerating competition from Samsung.

Samsung is to invest 10.4 billion yen (€84.4m) in Sharp to secure a supply of large-size LCD panels.

Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads for Apple will have their overtime curbed and their pay increased following an audit.

An independent group has begun inspecting the Chinese factories where Apple's iPads and iPhones are assembled, amid growing criticism over claims of horrendous working conditions.

A WORKER at iPhone maker Foxconn’s southern China manufacturing hub, the scene of a string of employee suicides this year, died late last week from what his family said was overwork, a claim the company denied.

A 10TH employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late on Wednesday, just hours after the company’s chairman promised to make life better for employees at the sprawling production site in southern China.

A worker at a huge Chinese factory which makes iPhones and iPads fell to his death today – the eighth fatality this year at the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, state-run media reported.