Report: China's migrants face abuse
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China's migrant workers are becoming an "urban underclass," held down by economic exploitation and residency rules that deny them access to medical, housing and education benefits, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday.
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Chinese migrant workers are told they must declare their political views when registering for permits.
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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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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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About 4,000 corrupt Chinese officials have fled abroad in the past two decades, taking with them ill-gotten funds totaling more than &#36;600 million.
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China has created a &quot;toxic political climate&quot; in Hong Kong through threats and intimidation designed to skew this week&#39;s elections in favour of pro-Beijing candidates, according to a global rights watchdog.
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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China showed its deep concerns for the safety of two kidnapped Chinese engineers in Pakistan, ForeignMinistry spokesman Kong Quan told Xinhua on Saturday.
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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 uproar over teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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Up to 50,000 workers upset over mistreatment by local security guards clashed with police in a town in China's Guangdong province, throwing rocks and bricks and torching four police cars, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Sunday.
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A thousand children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media has claimed amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.
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Chinese migrant construction laborers are overworked, feel isolated from urban society and mostly lack basic insurance, state media reported on Monday, citing a survey.
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China's fiercest winter in half  a century brought renewed misery for millions of travelers on  Sunday as they struggled to make their way home for the year's  most important holiday.
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Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor rights groups.
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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.
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A survey finds that more than 30m Chinese children are suffering from mental health or behavioural problems.
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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.