Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, in a statement to Reuters on Thursday, said the four employees had been detained in China's Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple's iPhones, on suspicion of the equivalent of "breach of trust".

Taipei, Taiwan – Four Taiwanese employees of Apple supplier Foxconn have been detained in China since January, Taiwan’s national news agency has reported.

Taiwanese govt says employees of Foxconn, world's largest assembler of iPhones, were detained under 'strange' circumstances in Zhengzhou where it has an assembling plant.

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

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.

At least four Taiwanese employees at Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone manufacturer, have been detained in China, Taiwanese authorities said on Thursday.