The firm's Chennai factory, one of its largest manufacturing facilities, has been raided by Indian tax officials.

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It found a string of abandoned or half-built facilities, including a paper factory, an aluminium mill and a fleet of unused buses - all of which apparently received money from Fonden.

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During the 1930s, the firm's eponymous founder built recreational facilities for workers employed in his factory in Trivero, the small town at 800 metres (2, 600 feet) in the Alpine foothills north-east of Turin where the company is still based.

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Its factory in Qingdao was set on fire, and its facilities in Zhuhai and Suzhou were confronted by outraged workers last weekend.

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The Tazreen factory fire and other disasters have highlighted the risks of using such facilities.

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Now that the peak floods appear to have passed the main industrial areas around Bangkok factory owners will be assessing the damage and starting the process of getting their facilities back on-line.

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If Wal-Mart's audits find factories that have structural damage or life-threatening conditions, "we will immediately ask them to cease production, inform the factory buyers and the government, and insist the workers don't go back to facilities, " said Rajan Kamalanathan, Wal-Mart's head of ethical sourcing, in an interview.

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In March, however, Dell announced it would close its Austin, Texas factory--the one closest to its Round Rock headquarters--leaving it with 11 facilities.

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