'Slaves' rescued from China firm
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Thirty-one workers are rescued from a brickworks in China, where they were held as virtual slaves.
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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani military plane left for China yesterday carrying the body of a Chinese engineer who was kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants and then killed during an attempt to rescue him and another hostage.
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The release of three United Nations workers who had been held hostage for more than three weeks took place early Tuesday in what appeared to be an orchestrated handover.
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The mistress of a building contractor has won the hearts of Chinese Internet surfers for masterminding the "rescue" of her lover who was in custody and under interrogation for corruption.
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HONGTONG, China  - China has promised a sweeping crackdown on a slave labor scandal in a poor part of the country where poverty and unbridled growth have made work abuses commonplace.
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Rescuers battled thick smoke on Monday to free 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, state media reported.
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Eight Chinese nationals have been taken hostage in Iraq, China's state media reports.
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About 400 Chinese men whose children  were sold to work as slaves at brickworks were seeking help  online after risking their lives and spending all their savings  in a mostly futile search, media reported on Wednesday.
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The bodies of 21 cockle pickers who drowned in England have been returned to their families in China.
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Nine Chinese workers kidnapped from the offices of a Chinese oil firm in Nigeria's Delta region are released.
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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 scandal over rural teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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A Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs.
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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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Eight Chinese workers taken hostage by guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed, and located by Chinese embassy staff in Baghdad, the embassy said Sunday.
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Nine kidnapped children were returned to their parents in central China on Thursday in a rare success story in a nation where population controls have led to rampant child-trafficking, state media reported on Thursday.
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All Royal Dutch Shell contractors  kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their  captors, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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A state-owned Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs.