Chinese police have detained four workers of the Taiwanese iPhone maker, Foxconn, in circumstances Taipei has described as "strange". The employees were arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on "breach of trust" charges,

Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn under "quite strange" circumstances. Police in Zhengzhou city of Henan province held the factory workers on an offence equivalent to Taiwan ’s “crime of breach of trust”, the island’s mainland affairs council said.

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

China has detained four Taiwanese employees at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant, the largest iPhone production facility in the world, responsible

Four employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances, Taiwan’s government said.

Chinese police have taken into custody four Taiwanese employees at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Apple Inc.’s main assembly partner, the latest in a spate of detentions that have rattled investor confidence in the country.

Four Taiwanese nationals working at Apple supplier Foxconn's production plant in Zhengzhou, China, were recently detained by local authorities

Chinese authorities are investigating four Taiwanese employees at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Apple Inc.’s main assembly partner, for suspected criminal activities including bribery, according to Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

China thing? Perhaps.

Taiwan’s government said that they had been accused of a breach of trust, but that their employer, Foxconn, had denied the company suffered any losses.