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Visitors to Taiwan's Computex trade show received a loud welcome on Tuesday morning as labor unions and environmental groups protested against some of the biggest names in the IT industry. About 30 protestors shouted slogans and held up signs for about an hour outside the show's Nangang Exhibition Hall targeting companies like Apple and Foxconn.

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Loud Welcome to COMPUTEX Martyn Williams: (IDG News Service) Visitor’s to Taiwan’s Computex trade show received a loud welcome on Tuesday morning as labor unions and environmental groups protested against some of the biggest names in the IT industry. Around 30 protesters shared it’s slogans and held up signs for about an hour outside the shows Nangang exhibition Hall targeting companies like Apple and Foxconn. Lennon Ying-Dah Wong: (General Secretary First Commercial Bank Industrial Union) All of them on the peak of this industry they have earned tremendous amount money but they don’t care about the social responsibility. They don’t care about the working condition of workers so it actually in many of their plans this is only we can say that is swish shop and we are very sad to see the modern swish shops in Taiwan and also main China in other parts of the world. Martyn: FoxConn is one the world’s largest contract manufacturers and makes products for companies including Apple and Dell. It’s under scrutiny following a string of apparent suicides amongst it’s production line workers. The most recent attempt the 12 so far came last week. Several of FoxConn’s biggest customers including Apple, HP, and Dell has said they’ll work together to investigate working conditions at the factories. The signs included pictures of some tech industry CEO’s including this one calling Apple’s Steve Jobs a blood sucker. Police attempted tohalt the unauthorized protests at several points but in the end allowed it to continue until protests has moved on about an hour after they began. In Taipei this is Martyn Williams IDG News Service.