By Lucy Hornby and Jane Lee BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 31 (Reuters) - Twenty minutes' drive from Shanghai's glitzy financial district, do...
Chinese migrant workers are a community beyond the bottom of the economic pyramid, forced to seek employment day-by-day with no guarantees. The foundation of most migrant workers' sustenance is their relationship to a laoban.
Every spring, China's cities plunge into chaos as a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train for the Chinese New Year. The wave is made...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social proble...
The story of one girl in China shows the struggle migrants face as they try to balance the demands of family, education, and their livelihoods.
BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese police are being trained to deal with social unrest amid concerns that millions of rural workers who have been la...
In the US, our government has been forced to decide just who is worth supporting as well: Should Washington bail out Lehman or Citi? AIG or Freddie Mac? Detroit or New York?
GUANGZHOU, China — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers desperate to get home for the Chinese New Year shivered in the cold under a sea of u...
