Hon Hai: has stopped new hiring at Shenzhen plant

TAIPEI, June 11 (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision Industry stopped hiring new staff at its suicide-hit Foxconn plant in southern China two weeks ago pending a review of the way the plant is managed, a spokesman said on Friday.

Spokesman Edmund Ding could not say when hiring would restart, and did not give details of the management review.

Hon Hai, the world's biggest contract electronics maker, with a client list that includes Apple Inc, Dell Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co, has been wrestling with the fallout from 10 suicides in the last five months at the Foxconn facility.

The suicides and controversy come amid growing labour unrest in southern China, the world's top manufacturing region, where millions of migrant workers from the country's poor hinterlands churn out goods for top global companies. Keywords: FOXCONN CHINA/ (Reporting by Roger Tung and Jonathan Standing; Reuters messaging [e-mail]; email [e-mail]; [phone]) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.