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".

China's government said on Friday that employees of Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest iPhone assembler, are being investigated for suspected taking of bribes and embezzlement, after Taiwan reported their detention.

Four Taiwanese employees of Apple supplier Foxconn have been detained in China since January, Taiwan’s national news agency has reported. The workers were detained in Zhengzhou, the home of Foxconn’s largest iPhone factory,

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,

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

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.

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