China promises action on slave labor claims
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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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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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China, a frequent target of overseas human rights organisations, has promised to improve the treatment of its prisoners, especially those on death row, state press reported Monday.
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More than 1,000 people, many of them young children, have been forced to work as slaves in a brutal human trafficking ring in China that has shocked and outraged the nation, police said Friday.
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&quot;Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!&quot; go  the stirring words that open China&#39;s national anthem.
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Apple Computer Inc. said Wednesday it was working to resolve a dispute over alleged labor abuses by an iPod manufacturer in China.
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China's Guangzhou city may limit migrant workers because of "social problems" they bring, state media said.
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China is to put tariffs on textile exports to head off mounting concern that it could flood the market after quotas are abolished next year.
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BEIJING -- China announced more arrests and a provincial governor apologized yesterday as the government stepped up it efforts to try to show it was responding to a growing slave labor scandal.
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Beijing has ordered provincial governments to begin a promised nationwide crackdown on forced labor in China, sparked by outrage over reports hundreds of farmers and children were enslaved in rural brick kilns.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday pledged greater support for education and health care over the next year and said the government would tackle sources of social unrest such as environmental problems, land seizures and privatization of state industries.
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China pledged Tuesday to investigate a report that officials covered up the deaths of at least 10 workers building the main stadium for the August Beijing Olympics.
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By Joe McDonald Associated Press  BEIJING -- China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by U.S. authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. Customs agency said Friday.
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China will launch a long-term offensive against dangerous medicines and bad foods that have alarmed consumers, the government announced in a plan that vows stronger export controls.
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China promised on Tuesday to get tougher on copyright and patent violations, a long-awaited move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant piracy believed to cost foreign businesses billions of dollars every year.
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JOHANNESBURG -- President Hu Jintao of China sought yesterday to reassure Africans that his country's aggressive investments in oil, copper, and other natural resources do not amount to a new wave of colonialism, saying China would "not do anything harmful to the interests of Africa and its people."
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"Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!" go the stirring words that open China's national anthem.