Chinese immigrants face a long night's work in Italian clothes factories
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Thousands of Italy's Chinese immigrants face long hard nights, working under the glare of neon lights in sweat shop-style small clothing factories.
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them ...
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Millions of Chinese migrant workers remain separated from families as the Lunar New Year starts.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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Britons, slaves to some of the longest working hours in the European Union, are suffering growing levels of stress, back strain and other work-related injuries, the country's trade unions said on Friday.
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SHANGHAI  - Thousands of retired textile factory workers in an eastern Chinese industrial centre blocked traffic in a weekend protest over the failure of their pensions to keep pace with rising prices, officials and labour advocates said Monday.
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SHAOGUAN, China  - Work crews battled on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked out for over a week by the fiercest snow storms in 50 years as the government warned that worse was to come.
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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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They sought refuge in a towel factory. As they entered, many of the factory workers were still there, clinging to the floor, trying to steer clear of stray bullets.
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Italians have taken a shine to ghosts, ghouls and mummies -- in just a few years, the imported festival for Halloween has taken the Bel Paese by storm.
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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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Child workers have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery.
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SHANGHAI -- From his posh office in a coastal city in eastern China, millionaire Zhou Jiaru oversees more than 100 workers at an auto parts refurbishing factory he purchased in a struggling manufacturing town on the other side of the world.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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Italy's factories, trains, banks and  planes will come to a standstill for hours Tuesday as unions  stage a general strike to protest at plans for tax cuts they  say will help the rich and cost the public sector.
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With China celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Pig, Chinese factories that ordinarily spew a big percentage of the world's pollution are idle for a week. However there's no rest for the Chinese computers that produce a big chunk of the Internet's pollution.