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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China's lawyers association has urged making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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The move is likely to inflame Chinaâs critics, who have called for a boycott of the 2008 games to protest human rights abuses.
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More than 180 Chinese dissidents and rights activists have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to press China to improve its human rights record ahead of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
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Activists are using the coming games as leverage to prod Beijing on issues like factory working conditions. Will it pay off?
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HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- US retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT) has bowed to pressure and said it will allow unions in its stores in China to unionize if employees request it, the China Daily newspaper reported.
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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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China will step up controls on investment in power plants, despite electricity shortages, to help ease pressure on coal supplies, state media reported Monday.
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Official Urges Legislature To Hold Governments Accountable for Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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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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China steps up the fight against corruption, announcing plans for a new agency to spearhead efforts.
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China will consider adopting measures  to protect its interests and those of its trading partners once  global textile quotas are scrapped at the end of this month, a  government spokesman said on Friday.
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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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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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BEIJING - China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by American 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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SHANGHAI : Global retail powerhouse Wal-Mart says it will allow unions in its stores in China but insisted this has always been the case and that the company is in compliance with the law on the issue.