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1. News - China

   Flower pots force homeless migrant workers to move on

   Posted Dec 24th 2012, 03:53pm by Peony Lui

   ... News China Migrant Workers Peony Lui In Zhengzhou city, Henan province, the open spaces beneath numerous express bridges were filled with hundreds of flower pots overnight. Previously, many migrant workers in the city took shelter under these bridges, unwilling or unable to afford proper housing. The death of migrant worker Liu Hongwei under Lijiao Bridge last month caught ... journalism because it provides a balanced perspective besides that of the government's. The migrant workers' opinions matter and it's important for them to be heard. In this case, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1112145/flower-pots-force-homeless-migrant-workers-move
2. Survivors scrambled to safety as others perished

   Posted Nov 17th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Migrant Worker Zhao Migrant Worker Zhuang Pinghui Survivors and witnesses of Saturday's deadly subway tunnel collapse in Hangzhou , Zhejiang province , recounted the sudden disaster that engulfed 11 vehicles and dozens of people within seconds. A migrant worker at the site, identified only as Zhao, said his mind went blank as huge steel supporting columns fell one after another ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/660478/survivors-scrambled-safety-others-perished
3. Lifestyle - Books - CHINA

   Book review: China's Silent Army, by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo

   Posted Feb 24th 2013, 12:00am by Louise Rosario

   ... the individuals who are willing to go anywhere to escape poverty at home and seek their fortune, however unfavourable the conditions. One such migrant, who had little formal education, arrived in Egypt ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1156177/book-review-chinas-silent-army-juan-pablo-cardenal-and-heriberto
4. News - China - SOCIETY

   Migrant workers protest in Beijing over woman's unexplained death

   Posted May 09th 2013, 12:00am by Minnie Chan and Choi Chi-yuk

   ... by the death of a migrant worker from Anhui who was found dead on Friday after falling from the five-storey Jingwen Commercial Building, a wholesale garment market in Beijing's southern Fengtai ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1233296/migrant-workers-protest-beijing-over-womans-unexplained-death
5. News - China

   Briefs, January 2, 2013

   Posted Jan 02nd 2013, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... to collapse. Raymond Li   University delays for migrants' children Six western provinces and regions failed to advance new residency rules for college entrance exams before the State ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1117811/briefs-january-2-2013
6. News - World - GREECE

   Two arrested in Greece over attack on Bangladeshi migrant labourers

   Posted Apr 18th 2013, 09:00pm by AFP

   ... News World Migrant Workers Patras strawberry growers Agence France-Presse in Patras, Greece Two men have been arrested in Greece after foremen for strawberry growers allegedly shot and wounded 27 migrant labourers who were demanding to be paid, police said on Thursday. The migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, were hospitalised in the western port of Patras and other areas ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1217679/two-arrested-greece-over-attack-migrant-labourers
7. News - China

   Migration a thing of the past for families living where jobs now grow

   Posted Dec 29th 2012, 12:00am by Denise Tsang

   ... News China Migrant Workers China Labour Denise Tsang denise.tsang@scmp.com After 20 years in Guangdong, a migrant worker decides it's time to reconnect with his family back home - one of millions to make that choice Xu Guanghui is determined to prove that you can go home again. In May, the 49-year-old migrant worker quit his job in southern China and went "home" to Luzhou ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1114569/migration-thing-past-families-living-where-jobs-now-grow
8. Comment - Blogs

   Do migrant children deserve better access to education?

   Posted Nov 30th 2012, 02:03pm by Amy Li

   ... Comment Blogs News China Gaokao Beijing Migrant Workers Amy Li Beijing residents and migrants debate education policy Beijing residents and migrants to the city from other parts of China are having a heated debate over the capital’s upcoming “Gaokao” – or China’s college entrance exam policy for the children of migrants. It’s become a controversial topic after officials earlier ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1094557/do-migrant-children-deserve-better-access-education
9. Magazines - Post Magazine - SUNDAY MORNING

   Then & now: paradise found

   Posted Nov 25th 2012, 12:00am by Jason Wordie

   ... Magazines Post Magazine Migrant Workers Homosexuality Jason Wordie Indifferent Hong Kong gives migrant workers a taste of personal freedom that is unthinkable in their home nation, writes Jason Wordie Almost unknown before 1997-98, the Indonesian migrant worker community has merged into the local landscape over the past 15 years. Now it's significantly larger than its ...

   http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1088212/then-now-paradise-found
10. News - China

    China Digest, October 26, 2012

    Posted Oct 26th 2012, 12:00am by STAFF

    ... the farmers have not agreed to turn over their land. Migrants stretch schools As much as 40 per cent of new admissions at primary and secondary schools in Zhengzhou this semester were ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1069808/china-digest-october-26-2012

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