China brickwork slave children may number 1,000
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As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said on Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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Child labor is a daily fact of life in China, experts say, and one that the government, preoccupied with economic growth, has traditionally turned a blind eye to.
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DONGGUAN, China -- Heralded by an unprecedented series of walkouts, the first stirrings of unrest have emerged among the millions of youthful migrant workers who supply seemingly inexhaustible cheap labor for the vast expanse of factories in China's booming Pearl River Delta.
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BEIJING -- The concrete shells of this city's rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow's homes and offices -- they're already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China's migrant construction workers.
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BEIJING - Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
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Five people have been jailed in eastern China for forcing a group of mentally handicapped people to work in brick kilns, state media reported on Thursday, months after the country was rocked by a brickworks slavery scandal.
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The number of street children in Congo's capital has swelled to around 20,000. Many have been shunned as 'witches.'
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More than 1,000 labourers are found by government officials on a plantation, working 14 hours a day.
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China has punished dozens of officials for allowing slave-like exploitation of workers and children in brick kilns, but announced criminal investigations against only six.
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A recent study says that one-quarter of the youths in China's wealthiest city have considered taking their own lives.
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CHANGZHOU, China -- Twelve years ago, five families from the Washington area came to this city in China's eastern Jiangsu province to adopt children. They found little girls to welcome into their worlds and, in doing so, joined a new generation of American families that had only recently begun to...
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About one million cribs designed by Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national uproar over teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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Over 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, claim new figures
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BEIJING - Officials in eastern China plan to name and shame rich families who ignore the country's strict one-child policy and simply pay the fine for having a second or third baby, state media said.