Four Taiwanese employees of Foxconn have been detained in China over allegations of accepting bribes and embezzlement. The case, which adds to cross-strait tensions, has drawn attention from both Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and China's Taiwan Affairs Office,

Four Taiwanese employees at Chinese facilities that make products for Apple have been detained by local authorities.

At least four Taiwanese employees at Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone manufacturer, have been detained in China, Taiwanese authorities said on Thursday. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), which oversees its relations with China,

Taiwan's government said this week that four Foxconn employees had been detained in China under "quite strange" circumstances in China's Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple's iPhones,

Four employees of the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that makes the Apple iPhone are in detention in China, Taiwanese authorities said Friday.

The workers have been detained since January, Taiwanese media reported. The council quoted Foxconn as saying that “the four employees did not harm the company’s interests”.

The employees were detained by public security in the city of Zhengzhou for the equivalent of 'breach of trust' under Taiwan law, Taipei's top China policy body, the Mainland Affairs Council, said

The police in Zhengzhou, China, had accused each of the four Taiwanese workers of an offense comparable to Taiwan's "crime of breach of trust," according to a statement Thursday from Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.