As Unrest Rises, China Broadens Workersâ Rights
110529
A new law strengthens protections amid increasing signs of restiveness among tens of millions of migrant laborers.
7916
Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor rights groups.
522587
China increases its hold over the media with new rules on how courts release information, state media says.
247934
China declared martial law in part of a central province after at least seven people were killed, 42 injured and numerous houses set ablaze in clashes between minority Muslims and Han Chinese, officials said on Monday.
134149
China&#39;s sweeping new labor law will  improve workplace conditions without deterring foreign  investment, the European Union Chamber of Commerce said on  Sunday.
469388
China's security chief has urged officials to heed the grievances of their communities, state media reported Friday, following a series of violent protests that undermine efforts to maintain stability.
228570
BEIJING, June 29 -- The Chinese legislature passed a law Friday to provide more protection to the millions of farm youths who leave home and become cheap labor in the factories and construction sites that have mushroomed in China's booming economy.
413265
The move is part of a government crackdown on graft by ChinaÂs president that has focused on prominent political opponents.
133805
At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.
506587
Chinese authorities have imposed martial law on parts of China&#39;s central Henan province after deadly clashes between China&#39;s ethnic Han majority and members of the Muslim Hui minority.
679702
As the National People's Congress prepares to meet in early March for its annual policy-setting meeting, economic and social issues are looming large in China, and one overshadows the rest: the mainland's widening income gap.
669438
Since China's peasantry began falling far behind the urban elite in the go-go 1990's, the countryside has been a font of unrest.
341009
China has honored some of its WTO commitments ahead of schedule. The revised Foreign Trade Law took effect as of July 1, which opened the foreign trade rights a half year earlier than expected.
206127
InfoWorld - The Chinese government took steps during 2006 to&#160;increase its control&#160;and monitoring of Internet access by the country&#39;s growing Internet population, the U.S. Department of State said in a human-rights report released on Tuesday.
90500
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is considering raising the legal retirement age in China to reduce pressure on the social security retirement pension.
358669
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.
410028
China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.