No Way Home for China's Migrants
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Each year, some 200 million workers head home for the Lunar New Year. But massive snow storms have left many stranded and shivering
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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BEIJING  - China called on foreign embassies on Tuesday to stop giving shelter to North Korean asylum-seekers, complaining that they are really illegal migrants    led by activists with "ulterior motives."
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YIWU, China -- For more than three years, Khaled Rasheed and his family spent the nights huddled in fear as bombs exploded near their home in Baghdad. Like generations of would-be emigrants before him, he dreamed of a better life elsewhere. But where?
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The coldest, snowiest winter in decades has left millions of Chinese without heating and running water, leading the government on Friday to order a suspension of coal exports as the country struggles to meet its power needs.
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Chinese police detained 65 North Korean asylum-seekers in Beijing, South Korean activists said Wednesday, accusing China of carrying out &quot;hardline measures&quot; to round up refugees from its ally North Korea.
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Hundreds of Chinese migrant workers have been attacked after striking over unpaid wages, state media reports.
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China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but places like southern Henan Province remain destitute.
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For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
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China warned Saturday the worst was not over in its national weather crisis as desperate holiday travellers jammed transport hubs and others endured bitter winter storms without power or water.
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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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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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BEIJING - The Canadian Embassy in China says it does not expect to hand over any time soon 44 North Korean asylum seekers who entered the compound this week.
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Many of the thousands of Hmong refugees who fled to the United States following the Vietnam War never accepted the communist government that took power in their native Laos.
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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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Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rights group said Tuesday.