From China Recently
News items of interests from Dongguan and China recently include labor unrest, arrests of politicians, and cultural shifts.Dongguan reported job losses of 10 percent during the global recession. Exports are down 24 percent in the heavily industrialized city.
The higher unemployment has continued to raise labor issues:
- Rules to protect migrant workers are reportedly being "widely skirted" and resulting in many claims, but probably little change in management actions.
- Factory workers, killed a plant manager at a steel factory in Tonghua City during a riot.
- A mould factory in Dongguan was even reported to have locked toilets from employees, for use only upon permission.
- Many big political names have been linked to graft and corruption and imprisoned or worse.
- The chief of airport authority was executed Friday after conviction.
- The former mayor of Shenzhen has been stripped of his membership to the people's provincial congress.
- But some things never change, as many of the politicians arrested have been linked to concubines, a practice still seeminly in vogue at top levels.
In odd news, an old Chinese couple in Tanxia Township of Dongguan, is complaining about a neighbor girl that wears no clothes in her home with the blinds open.
You just never know.
Labels: Dongguan, Guangdong News
posted by A Bryson (formerly) in China @ 10:36 PM
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