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CHINA LABOR

China has changed from a low-cost labor manufacturing haven to one where attracting and retaining workers is often a company’s biggest, most demanding task. Higher wages, tight labor markets, and ever more assertive workers are now some of the biggest challenges facing multinationals and emerging Chinese companies alike. We explore the challenges.

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LG Display to build panel plant in Chinamore

SEOUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) - South Korean flat-screen maker LG Display (034220.KS) has agreed in principle with...

In China’s Stimulus Spending, Seeds of a Surgemore

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China survey shows shrinking consumer confidencemore

Consumer confidence in China's cities fell last month as consumers became increasingly nervous about the state of the...

Workers abroad Must Be 'Better Protected'more

The government should take steps to better protect Chinese workers abroad, especially because their number could...

4.5-day workweek system proposedmore

their time off! Anyway, everyone must obey it if the government enacts new regulations concerning this system.

China: Ten Reasons We Are Watching the National People's Congressmore

Now that we are into the third month of the year, the time has come for the annual pageantry of pomp, politics, and...

China Pushing Forward Creative Industry Zonesmore

One of the major ways that the Chinese government has been pushing forward creative industry in China is through the...

Chinese steel mills cut outputmore

Chinese steel mills appear to be cutting production, after a sharp increase since December, reflecting fresh concerns...

Fewer jobs in China's factory townsmore

Mr Guo and his wife have no choice but to continue looking for work Chinese migrant worker Guo Debing lost his job a...

Rioting Chinese Steel Workers Kill Boss Over Layoffsmore

Rioting Chinese Steel Workers Kill Boss Over Layoffs Posted by: Frederik Balfour on July 27 Some 30,000 angry Chinese...

Chinese Worker Commits Suicide Over Missing iPhonemore

Chinese worker Sun Danyong was responsible for handling the prototypes of one of the world's hottest products — the...

Web rise in Chinamore

When Jiang Dabao lost a hand to a molding machine three years ago, his boss said he wasn't eligible for workers'...

Rich China, Poor Peasants more

China recently announced its GDP grew by more than 7.1% in the first half of this year, putting the country on course...

Lead poisonings spark investigationmore

Wenping, China - Two environmental officials were being investigated Saturday after more than 1,300 children were...

Chinese Get Angrier About Pollutionmore

Protests over pollution in China are heating up these days, and in Fujian province and elsewhere, the demonstrations...

Save Money, Shop Fung-Mart: Where Wal-Mart Goes To Shopmore

While many American retailers are just one lackluster back-to-school season away from disaster, the malingering...

No vacancies on horizon for 12m job seekersmore

Job seekers in China will face an uphill battle in the coming months and as many as 12 million may not find work this...

China Trade Surplus: The Great (Re-) Balancing Actmore

Shanghai, China, 19 August 2009. Western Economists have long attacked China's trade surplus as being a great source of...

China's 'cancer villages' heavily pollutedmore

Located just downstream from three steel factories, a paper mill and a bone-processing plant, the citizens of Xiadian...

China's Cancer-Causing Factoriesmore

Deng Dingfu is living out his final days wracked with the pain of lung cancer - lung cancer blamed on toxic pollution,...

China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Freemore

HONG KONG -- In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory:...

China's amazing new bullet trainmore

When lunch break comes at the construction site between Shanghai and Suzhou in eastern China, Xi Tong-li and his fellow...

One in Five College-Educated Chinese Wants to Emigratemore

China's rapid economic growth has been accompanied by equally rapid urbanization, with rural Chinese flocking to urban...

Chinese Steel Workers Fight Privatization Effortmore

BEIJING -- A Hong Kong-based human-rights group said thousands of steel workers in China's northeast staged an at-times...

Slowing Economy Spurs Disquiet in Chinamore

Der Spiegel writes about some of the issues involved with the slowing of China’s economy, including increased...

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