... in 18 migrant schools. “What I love about Stepping Stones is that it brings together in a very meaningful way two otherwise polarized communities,” says Hua. Source: http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/none/shanghai-hot-list-20-people-watch-165740 ...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
... been turned off "to save electricity," says Su Caifang, deputy director general of the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, who notes that the province has suffered greatly in recent months because of the ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... other means to cool off in hot weather. But the article says some low-income residents can't afford the cooling fees, while others, like migrant workers, earn their living at stifling hot construction ...
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
... but has worked as a maid in Beijing for five years. Her first child was a girl but she says she has no interest in trying for a boy, despite being legally entitled to. "My husband can earn more than ...
Friday, 26 June 2009
... away" from the deadline when computers must be sold with the software. China says the software is needed to protect children from pornographic and violent images. The brief report was the latest sign ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
... says 32-year-old Zhang. "It should be a lifelong career and commitment to help people in need." The center has been widely publicized and is the subject of a documentary titled "Hand in Hand" made by ...
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Tags: [Chinese farmers' income to continue rising in 2009, official says , rural farmers, migrant workers, unemployment, MRN, Migrant Resource Network, China] ...
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Tags: [China Says Migrants Are Employed Again, MRN, Migrant Resource Network, China] ...
Friday, 07 August 2009
... one young investigative journalist who has worked as Wang's assistant in the past says journalists like himself, Wang, and Zhai face huge problems getting interviews in the first place. "A lot of the ...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
... carried away by the crowd, and the soundman was carried away to another direction,” Fan says . What drove this seething mass to endure trying conditions, including standing on their feet for days without ...
Thursday, 04 March 2010
SHANGHAI - New-generation migrant workers, better educated and more informed than their forebears, are now demanding that they receive the same treatment as the natives of their host cities. Such demands ...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
... buy clothes and cars. More than 300 million Chinese are without health insurance, the World Bank says , and the remaining 1 billion have only partial coverage. In part to pay for those costs, Chinese ...
Monday, 01 March 2010
... company that refused to pay their wages. Li Fan, director of the World and China Institute, says that it is almost impossible to prevent such incidents under China’s current political system. Tang ...
Monday, 01 March 2010
... who care and are able to support you in times of trouble or challenges is very important," says Judy Shen, founder and director of CAI, a non-profit project by the U.S.-based Promise Foundation that runs ...
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
... two-story schoolhouse, less than six months old. "My two business partners and I spent 2 million yuan($146,461) on the building," he says , shaking his head. "It's all hard-earned money over the past ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
... in the Haidian district in Beijing. Then it was demolished to create the infrastructure for the Universiade 2001. Yang says he's bombarded with calls from parents of schoolchildren, who have finished ...
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Premier Wen Jiabao says China will reform its household registration system to guarantee equal rights for migrant workers as they resettle in urban centers. Since the 1950s, the system has categorized ...
Monday, 28 December 2009
... take him to a proper place, but if it was me who was ill I wouldn't bother," she said. Beijing's city government has launched a campaign to close down the capital's illegal clinics, but it says that ...
Saturday, 28 November 2009
... in 18 migrant schools. “What I love about Stepping Stones is that it brings together in a very meaningful way two otherwise polarized communities,” says Hua. Source: http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/none/shanghai-hot-list-20-people-watch-165740 ...
Thursday, 12 November 2009
... employment is far from certain. Mayor Sun Yunfei of Fuyang City in Anhui says there are two reasons for the emergence of landless migrants. One is violation of family planning policy, the other is that ...
Friday, 30 October 2009
