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Selling tofu to Botswana
What happens when a Chinese construction company tries to bribe a senior government official in Botswana to turn a blind eye to structural problems discovered in a new school the company was building in the Okavango delta?
23 August 2012
Wall Street Journal: China's Labor Market Tightens
Job cuts in China appear to be on the rise, dimming prospects for a labor market that has been a resilient bright spot amid a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
24 August 2012
Wuhan factory strike illustrates both the progress and limits to the workers’ movement in China’s inland provinces
A two-day strike involving more than 1,000 workers at a Wuhan automotive components factory ended on Friday 24 August after management increased its pay offer to an extra 200 yuan a month.
25 August 2012
A bloody August for China’s coal mines
At least 62 miners have been killed in two major coal mine accidents in China in the last month, according to official media reports. The final death toll is likely to be higher still once rescue efforts have finally been called off.
31 August 2012
Wall Street Journal:China Coal Sector Has Safety Setback
A spate of accidents has put the spotlight back on the fast-expanding Chinese coal industry, the world's deadliest for coal miners despite a measurably improved safety record in recent years.
04 September 2012
China’s factories remain the focus of worker unrest in August as manufacturing declines
Worker unrest in August was again concentrated in China’s coastal factories as the country’s official purchasing-managers index dropped below 50 for the first time this year, indicating a contraction in manufacturing activity. Photograph of striking workers at automotive components joint-venture in Wuhan.
04 September 2012
Sacked Shanghai doctor invokes spirit of Mao Zedong in search for justice
A Shanghai doctor talks to Han Dongfang about his six-year struggle for justice after being fired from his university and hospital jobs and his nostalgia for the Mao era.
05 September 2012
The Register: Apple urged to defy China's one child policy
Chinese activist and exiled dissident Chen Guangchen has waded into the controversy surrounding working conditions at the Chinese suppliers of big name tech brands by calling on Apple and others to stand up against his country’s infamous one child policy.
06 September 2012
An introduction to China's work-related injury compensation system
With an estimated more than one million work-related injuries and nearly 80,000 work-related deaths in China each year, there is an obvious need not only to improve safety but to ensure that those workers who are injured are properly compensated.
07 September 2012
The Observer: Sock City's decline may reveal an unravelling in China's economy
The hosiery business has been good to the entrepreneurs of Datang, who rode out the 2008 crisis and recovered. But now business is slowing again – and experts fear that may presage a hard landing for the whole country
09 September 2012