On 24 June 2007, Liang Xiaowen, a 16 year-old student from Maoming in southwest Guangdong, got on a bus to China's manufacturing heartland, Dongguan.  Xiaowen's father was seriously ill and suffer . . .

LU XUN is generally considered to be the greatest Chinese writer of the Twentieth Century.  Writing in the 1920s and '30s, a time of great turmoil and upheaval in China, Lu Xun gave a voice the di . . .

THE northern province of Shanxi is the centre of China's ever expanding coal industry, and deep in the very heart of Shanxi are the mountainous rural county of Fenxi and the smoke enveloped city of . . .

Since 2003, the State Council has issued a series of policies on protection of migrant workers' rights. While these policies require improving migrant workers' employment situation, they also requ . . .

A female migrant worker from Chongqing died in a toy factory in Guangzhou after reportedly working non-stop for 21 hours.

More than forty fellow workers in the factory who also came from Chon . . .

Since July 29, the ACFTU's drive to set up union branches in Wal-Mart stores in China has snowballed rapidly, with a total of 17 union branches now having been formed in Wal-Mart stores in cities . . .

A new phenomenon – death from overwork (guolaosi) – has become increasingly common in China since the turn of the century and has attracted widespread publicity and comment in the Chinese media . . .