Last week, I found myself sloshing through sewer-infested water up to the thighs after a deluge of rain hit a migrant community I was visiting in Shanghai. The community was tucked away in a pocket ...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Migrant workers returning to their homes for holidays in January and February will trigger another spike in the H1N1 epidemic in mainland China, according to U.S. virologist, Dr. Lin Xiaoxu. Almost half ...
Sunday, 03 January 2010
Migration affects an estimated 83 million children in China, compromising one of the most vulnerable groups of children in the country, Dr. Hana Brixi, UNICEF China Office-in-Charge and chief of Social ...
Friday, 20 November 2009
Several years ago, Corinne Hua was researching migrant schools for a local NGO. She was struck by the lack of good English teachers. “At the same time, there was a growing hunger among the more advantaged ...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Thursday, 08 October 2009
... parents are well advised to send their children to cities as migrant s. Although migrant s have little chance of being absorbed into decent or growth sectors in cities, simply to be able to stop being ...
Monday, 06 July 2009
... by poor management of businesses, and land disputes in both urban and rural areas caused by the home-coming of migrant workers and the public investment projects in the economic stimulus plan of the government, ...
Monday, 06 July 2009
2009-07-04 NANJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A museum for migrant workers' literature will be set up in the city of Suzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province in an attempt to create a "mental homeland" for the ...
Monday, 06 July 2009
... this is the first time," said Gu Yingli, an official with the NNCC office. She said the SMS service can reach more young people and migrant s than traditional media, which will take the anti-drug education ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... job centers for laid-off migrant workers are full. On a recent evening, the Pearl River itself seemed dimmer—many of the garish light displays that usually blaze from waterfront inns and restaurants had ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
2009-07-01 A migrant worker with a history of mental illness stabbed four neighbors to death and left five others injured during a bloody rampage in a remote village in Hubei province. The 27-year-old ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... people living with HIV in China, including 85,000 AIDS victims. The virus is most prevalent among drug users who inject narcotics, homosexual men, blood plasma donors and sex workers, while migrant workers ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... they can to keep cool amid this unbearably hot weather. But some poor residents and migrant workers are still sweltering under the blazing sun, their un-air-conditioned houses offering little respite from ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
une 29, 2009 Over 12 million migrant workers have received training in construction skills from training institutions and spare-time schools, according to Wang Ning, director general of the Personnel ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... the many female migrant workers who have had children, she must undergo regular tests as part of China's family planning policy, which was implemented in the 1970s to control the nation's booming population. ...
Friday, 26 June 2009
... Chuang, CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Group China. Notably, the study finds that: * With the influx of migrant labor, communities have established new rules of engagement and trust. The “web of favors” replaces ...
Friday, 26 June 2009
2009, June 25 - China is currently facing an unprecedented economic crisis. In the midst of this sudden crisis, unemployment among college students and migrant workers, China’s two major young labor forces, ...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
UNITED NATIONS, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Despite their economic and social value, migrant s have already begun to feel the brunt of the current financial crisis, subjected to rejection and discrimination, the ...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
他们吃的最差，他们干是最苦，他们忙的最累，他们做是最脏的活，他们的生活条件是最简陋的；他们任劳任怨，他们收入最低.看着那一幅幅真实的画面，我忽然有种想流泪的冲动，这些画面，离我们好像太遥远，远得我们间中甚至有人来怀疑它的真实性了，远得我们无法想象那到底是怎么的一种生活。我们每天都在讲着食品安全，我们每天都对着买回来的那一大堆的米呀面呀菜呀肉呀得研究怎么才能做到健康卫生，可是，这些农民工呢，他们的食品安全谁来给保障，看看他们的午餐，看看他们手中的食物，谁来保证农民工的健康卫生质量呀？ ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
... will jointly offer free housekeeping training to 200,000 rural migrant workers. On June 18, the first batch of 1,000 rural migrant workers from Hubei, Hunan, and Anhui Provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang ...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
