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...situation in China's other provinces is not much better. In Sichuan province, which sends millions of migrant workers to Guangdong?where the disease is thought to have originated last November?an official of the local center for disease control told TIME that at least two migrant workers had died and six more were confirmed to have the disease. In a troubling precedent, a SARS-infected migrant worker who rode a long-distance bus back home to Sichuan was quarantined in the same ward with all his fellow travelers?increasing the chances they would catch the virus from...
...where censors aim never to show China's ugly side. Yet, even though "underground" films are banned on the mainland, they are being made. The state media is even unwittingly contributing to the growth of maverick documentaries. In recent years, unofficial Chinese films have been made about vagrant children, migrant workers, homosexuals and corrupt village officials. Many were produced by frustrated filmmakers like Chen, using technical savvy acquired while working for mainland media outlets, sometimes even with equipment borrowed from the state...
...South one summer to work at menial jobs. He hit the day-labor agencies at dawn and took whatever was available--stacking fiber-glass insulation at a warehouse, operating a jackhammer, cleaning up a sewage overflow at a hotel. He also worked that summer as a migrant laborer in upstate New York, side by side with Mexicans picking tomatoes. "I'd had a comfortable upbringing," says Spitzer, "so I wanted to experience harder work, to see the world from a different perspective...
Priscilla Orta ’05 declared her intent to enter the contest with her 30-volume collection of books about Latinos in the United States, focusing on Mexican-Americans and Mexican migrant workers, including titles such as Heroic Mexico, Crossing Over, With These Hands and Immigrant America...
...Carbide arising from a 1984 industrial disaster that has killed 20,000 people. The Indian government wanted the charge of culpable homicide against Warren Anderson, a U.S. citizen, to be reduced to negligence. But a judge argued that Anderson had not yet applied to have his charges reduced. INDONESIA Migrant Malaise Dozens of Indonesians have died while stranded in a refugee camp in Borneo after being ousted from Malaysia for working there illegally. Of the 25 deaths since the end of July in Nunukan, East Kalimantan province, 15 have been children under age five. The Indonesian Red Cross said that...