Chinese police have detained four workers of the Taiwanese iPhone maker, Foxconn, in circumstances Taipei has described as "strange". The employees were arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on "breach of trust" charges,

Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn under "quite strange" circumstances. Police in Zhengzhou city of Henan province held the factory workers on an offence equivalent to Taiwan ’s “crime of breach of trust”, the island’s mainland affairs council said.

Chinese police have taken into custody four Taiwanese employees at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Apple Inc.’s main assembly partner, the latest in a spate of detentions that have rattled investor confidence in the country.