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BEIJING -- The Chinese government is checking companies nationwide for defaults of migrant workers' wages, with over a million workers having already recovered their hard-earned money

Guangdong police have rescued 14 infants after they busted four human trafficking gangs and found all the children were sold by their parents for money.

Local authorities should step up efforts to help migrant workers receive their wages on time, rather than erecting procedural barriers for them, according to a Beijing Youth Daily article.

A plan to extend the scheme to help low-income migrant workers get medical insurance in Beijing might not find willing participants.

Thousands of migrant workers recently knelt down in Fuping county, Shaanxi province to beg for their unpaid wages, but the company that has delayed paying them once spent 1.3 million yuan inviting a few pop stars to perform at the opening ceremony of its project. This incident has caused quite a stir in China. Migrant workers are probably the only type of workers

The catalogue of diseases occurring as a result of work and which may therefore be given special consideration under insurance has been newly amended to include AIDS contracted by medical staff through exposure at work.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) yesterday said the Act on Foreign Workers Employment in the Kaohsiung Free Trade Zone will focus on loosening the restrictions on hiring foreign workers.

China's new immigration law, which will take effect on July 1, 2013, will impose stiffer penalties on those found to have violated it, the Philippine Consulate General in Guangzhou warned on Thursday.