Li Wangyang, a veteran labour activist who was only released from a ten year prison term last year, was found dead, hanging from a window in his hospital room, on 6 June; his family told the media yesterday.
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At least 15 miners were killed and seven remain missing in two separate flooding incidents over the weekend, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Twice in one week, 13 workers have been killed in major explosions at Chinese industrial plants. At least 13 people were killed and another 43 injured in an explosion at a chemical factory near the northern city of Shijiazhuang on 28 February, the official Xinhua news agency reported. This follows the death of 13 workers, with another 17 injured, in an explosion at Angang Heavy Machinery, partly owned by the Anshan Iron and Steel Group, one of the three largest steel producers in China, on 20 February.
The former Party boss of Shizong county in the south western province of Yunnan is being investigated for alleged corruption following the death of 43 miners in a massive gas explosion on 10 November 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Foxconn Technology Group (FOXCGZ), maker of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox game console, said 150 workers at a southern China factory protested against a plan to transfer them to another business unit.
Word today out of China that 150 workers at a factory that makes iPhones all threatened to jump from the top of the building if they didn't get a raise. Those workers at the Foxconn plant did get a raise. It's the same company that got a lot of press over the past few years for a rash of suicides there among workers, but these aren't the only workers protesting work conditions and pay in the country.
There is a saying in China about the coal miners who go underground into the bowels of the earth to earn their living -- that they only become human again when they come back to the surface.
An accident at a chemical plant in eastern China that killed more than a dozen workers was nothing out of the ordinary in a country infamous for its lack of workplace safety.
Miner He Quangui is ready to die. Often hit by coughing fits and breathlessness, he is one of hundreds of thousands in China who have contracted silicosis from working in the country's gold, coal or silver mines. And there is no safe cure.
As Wind Mobile considered bids for $30 million in contracts to expand its wireless network in Canada, one of the competing companies put in a peculiar request. Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera was talking to world-beating network equipment stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens when the Chinese firm Huawei asked if it could rent office space at Wind’s headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront.
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