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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A trial has begun of 12 people accused of involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.
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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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China&#39;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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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.
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Child workers have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery.
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China&#39;s promise to impose new taxes on some textile exports will do little to sway the administration as it debates whether to limit the expected flood of Chinese
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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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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The gesture comes as the Bush administration is weighing whether to sponsor a resolution criticizing China's human rights record at a U.N. meeting next month.
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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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Scores of people including a key suspect are arrested in China over slave labour in illegal factories, police say.
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China passed a new contract labor law on Friday in a bid to improve basic worker rights amid widespread complaints of unpaid wages, forced labor and other abuses, state media said Friday.
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"Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!" go the stirring words that open China's national anthem.
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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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Lawyers are mobilizing to press the rights of victims of a Chinese slave labor scandal that has unleashed widespread outrage, while prosecutors vowed on Wednesday to punish officials tied to the exploitation.
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China prosecuted nearly one million people last year and sent more people to jail than in 2005, officials said on Tuesday, and they vowed to keep up the fight on crime while promising to limit executions.