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No Jobs For Migrant Workers Due To China's Zero Covid Policy: Report
China lifted the 'Zero Covid' policy hoping it would give their citizens relief but it didn't go well with migrant workers as they have to search for new jobs after being affected by the stringent regulations, Voice Against Autocracy reported.
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Video Shows Workers Escaping Lockdown At China's Largest iPhone Factory
Since Saturday, photographs and videos circulating on Chinese social media appeared to show Foxconn workers returning home, trekking across fields during the day and along roads at night.
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Hundreds Of Thousands In Hong Kong Protest Bill On Chinese Extraditions
Corporate lawyers and university students, housewives and religious leaders, migrant workers and artists - a seeming cross-section of society - rose up on Sunday in one of the largest demonstrations in Hong Kong's history to protest a proposed extradition law that many fear would finally break the dam holding back China's surging influence over the...
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Fewer North Korean Workers Come To China As Border Trade Tightens
A labour agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main border post with North Korea. He had come to pick up migrant workers and take them to jobs in factories and restaurants in China.
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Unpaid And Angry, Some Chinese Workers Ditch Holidays To Protest
This year, labourer Fan Fu and 20 or so colleagues working on the Zixia Garden apartment complex in Hebei province have not joined China's legion of migrant workers returning home to celebrate New Year with their families.
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China Arrests 4 Labour Activists Amid Crackdown: Lawyers
China has formally arrested four labour activists who have helped workers fight for their rights, lawyers for two of them said today, as the government steps up a crackdown on activists pressing for change within the system.
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China Challenge: Getting Poor Migrant Workers To Buy Vacant Homes
Rattled by the potential economic fallout from millions of unsold homes, China wants migrant workers to buy properties in smaller cities and ease the burden on a real estate sector that makes up about 15 percent of the country's economic growth.
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Man Found Alive After More Than 60 Hours In China Landslide
A migrant worker was pulled out alive Wednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a major manufacturing city in southern China.
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Indians, Chinese Account For Rise in New Zealand Migration
New Zealand's annual migration rose to a new annual record as more students from India and China arrived, a statistics agency said on Monday.
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China 'Left Behind' Children Commit Suicide: Report
Four siblings, aged between five and 13 and left unattended by their parents for months, apparently committed suicide by drinking pesticide in southwest China, state media reported on Friday.
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China Demands No Workers in Settlements, Says Israel
China has told Israel it will not allow migrant builders to work on settlements in the occupied West Bank, a senior Israeli government official said today.
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China's Young Migrants Like Cities, Spend More - Survey
China's young rural migrant workers are more eager to work in cities, and are spending more and saving less, an official survey showed on Monday, a trend that could boost Beijing's efforts to urbanise and re-balance the economy in the long term.
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In China's Xinjiang, Economic Divide Seen Fuelling Ethnic Unrest
Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far western Xinjiang region.
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Chinese migrants quit coastal cities to save money, be nearer home
More migrant workers deserted China's coastal regions last year, as lower living costs and proximity to home trumped higher wages.
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China's urbanisation drive leaves migrant workers out in the cold
Cheap but crowded neighbourhoods are being cleared across China as part of a stepped-up "urbanisation" campaign by China's new leaders. The country aims to spend an estimated $6 trillion on infrastructure, including housing, as a projected 400 million people become urban residents over the next decade.
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No Jobs For Migrant Workers Due To China's Zero Covid Policy: Report
China lifted the 'Zero Covid' policy hoping it would give their citizens relief but it didn't go well with migrant workers as they have to search for new jobs after being affected by the stringent regulations, Voice Against Autocracy reported.
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Video Shows Workers Escaping Lockdown At China's Largest iPhone Factory
Since Saturday, photographs and videos circulating on Chinese social media appeared to show Foxconn workers returning home, trekking across fields during the day and along roads at night.
-
Hundreds Of Thousands In Hong Kong Protest Bill On Chinese Extraditions
Corporate lawyers and university students, housewives and religious leaders, migrant workers and artists - a seeming cross-section of society - rose up on Sunday in one of the largest demonstrations in Hong Kong's history to protest a proposed extradition law that many fear would finally break the dam holding back China's surging influence over the...
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Fewer North Korean Workers Come To China As Border Trade Tightens
A labour agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main border post with North Korea. He had come to pick up migrant workers and take them to jobs in factories and restaurants in China.
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Unpaid And Angry, Some Chinese Workers Ditch Holidays To Protest
This year, labourer Fan Fu and 20 or so colleagues working on the Zixia Garden apartment complex in Hebei province have not joined China's legion of migrant workers returning home to celebrate New Year with their families.
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China Arrests 4 Labour Activists Amid Crackdown: Lawyers
China has formally arrested four labour activists who have helped workers fight for their rights, lawyers for two of them said today, as the government steps up a crackdown on activists pressing for change within the system.
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China Challenge: Getting Poor Migrant Workers To Buy Vacant Homes
Rattled by the potential economic fallout from millions of unsold homes, China wants migrant workers to buy properties in smaller cities and ease the burden on a real estate sector that makes up about 15 percent of the country's economic growth.
-
Man Found Alive After More Than 60 Hours In China Landslide
A migrant worker was pulled out alive Wednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a major manufacturing city in southern China.
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Indians, Chinese Account For Rise in New Zealand Migration
New Zealand's annual migration rose to a new annual record as more students from India and China arrived, a statistics agency said on Monday.
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China 'Left Behind' Children Commit Suicide: Report
Four siblings, aged between five and 13 and left unattended by their parents for months, apparently committed suicide by drinking pesticide in southwest China, state media reported on Friday.
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China Demands No Workers in Settlements, Says Israel
China has told Israel it will not allow migrant builders to work on settlements in the occupied West Bank, a senior Israeli government official said today.
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China's Young Migrants Like Cities, Spend More - Survey
China's young rural migrant workers are more eager to work in cities, and are spending more and saving less, an official survey showed on Monday, a trend that could boost Beijing's efforts to urbanise and re-balance the economy in the long term.
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In China's Xinjiang, Economic Divide Seen Fuelling Ethnic Unrest
Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far western Xinjiang region.
-
Chinese migrants quit coastal cities to save money, be nearer home
More migrant workers deserted China's coastal regions last year, as lower living costs and proximity to home trumped higher wages.
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China's urbanisation drive leaves migrant workers out in the cold
Cheap but crowded neighbourhoods are being cleared across China as part of a stepped-up "urbanisation" campaign by China's new leaders. The country aims to spend an estimated $6 trillion on infrastructure, including housing, as a projected 400 million people become urban residents over the next decade.
