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Just the other week, Calixto discovered that someone posing as a Harvard official tricked one of China’s largest schools, the Shaanxi International Trade College, into believing that Harvard had agreed to build a branch of the Cambridge university in China...
...Olympians are chafing under the restrictions. Shortly before the Athens games, Tian told TIME: "Things are different than 10 years ago, and we should be allowed to make more money. It's a reflection of the economic reforms China has gone through." Now he has been relegated to the Shaanxi province diving team. Meanwhile, fellow Olympic gold-medalist Guo Jingjing helped safeguard her place on the team by publicly apologizing last month for her own commercial ambitions, saying that her selfishness was unacceptable because "I belong to the nation." That, it appears, is the attitude needed to participate...
...published 160 years ago, but it's an accurate commentary on the plight of millions of Chinese like Chen Suo, a 16-year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things up," says Chen of the April rampage, during which about a thousand workers sabotaged machinery, trashed company offices and overturned...
...jail remains a very real possibility for agitators. Yet even those who have been convicted of inciting unrest are receiving help from an unlikely quarter: factory managers and their overseas clients. After the riot at Stella's Dongguan factory, 10 workers including Chen, the migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials...
...that kills three or more people every week, while there is an accident that kills at least 10 people every three weeks, according to State Administration of Work Safety statistics. The latest large-scale tragedy occurred on Nov. 28 when an explosion at the government-owned Chenjiashan mine in Shaanxi province killed 166 people, the deadliest accident in years. Fire had broken out in the mine a week before the accident, but bosses threatened to suspend workers who refused to return to work, state-run media reported...