Following numerous reports of child labor, including a recent report from workers’ rights advocacy group China Labor Watch, Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics supply giant that assembles numerous popular consumer devices from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, HP, Nintendo and others, has admitted to hiring intern laborers as young as age 14 to work at a plant in Yantai, China, assembling the Nintendo Wii U, Reuters reported. As Foxconn said in a statement reprinted by Reuters:
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