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Children sold to Chinese factories

The Cambodia News.Net
Wednesday 30th April, 2008

A Chinese newspaper has reported thousands of children are being sold in the same way as 'cabbages' to China's booming factories as virtual slave labour.

According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, hundreds of children, some as young as ten, are being sent to electronics and toy factories across southern China.

Most of them are bought and sold at a street market in Sichuan, one of rural China's most overpopulated provinces.

According to reporters, the children have been forced to stand in line, before being assessed like cattle and then driven in trucks to factories in the Pearl River Delta, the heart of China's manufacturing industry.

The newspaper said that many came from the same area of Sichuan, Liangshan County, where 76 children have been reported as missing since the Chinese New Year in February.

 

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Questions?
05-01-08, 01:33 AM

ALL Laws Must Stand Court Challenges

All laws implemented in a democratic nation must be able to withstand court challenges. China’s laws is getting better, but it needs lots of work (Western laws have 300 years history, China about 50 years). As a result, China’s legal system is still behind the West. In the meantime, brand companies from Western world can and must set minimum wage and age restriction for employees. They have the abilities to demand that manufacturers carry out their wishes. However, these Western companies are just as greedy and without conscience. Money, money, and more MONEYS: spirits of greedy FREE ENTERPRISE.

No Choice
04-30-08, 11:21 AM

Children sold like cabages

What choice do americans now have, all our factories are closed and jobs for those of us who worked in manufacting type jobs are gone. I was proud to pay more for american made when I had money. Now all I can do is buy cheap crap from China-made with slave labor. The Greedy retailers and corporations started this and no one tried to stop them. What’s next?

Anonymous
04-30-08, 09:29 AM

Children sold 'like cabbages' to Chinese factories

Have to ask.. Who is buying all these chinese made goods? You? Demanding cheap goods has its price and we should all share the blame! Nothing comes without its price.

Anonymous
04-30-08, 11:19 AM

Is that really what is going on?

Unregistered;79929:
Have to ask.. Who is buying all these chinese made goods? You? Demanding cheap goods has its price and we should all share the blame! Nothing comes without its price.



Have you really looked at buying anything not made in China?
It’s not the case of buying something cheaper!
The case is there is hardly anything to buy that is made elsewhere!

NOPE
04-30-08, 03:08 PM

LIARS

UNFAIRNESS

Anonymous
05-01-08, 04:57 AM

china children

NOPE;79981:
UNFAIRNESS



I think so thosot who can not digest the growth of China spreading thes type rumours

WWD
04-30-08, 03:30 PM

China

When it comes factory jobs involving simple menial assembling of things with screws,spanner and solders nobody can do it at lower cost than china.

Other nations must make things to sell to china that china does not have.

To get back money lost to factories jobs transfered to china, people must make factories that make things that china does not have. Then they must sell these goodies to china’s working people.

There is a way for prosperity for all nations.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 78
04-30-08, 11:30 PM

Chinese Government Defaulted Bonds

The United States Government’s Senate has release a Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 78) to assist American Citizens to receive a fair settlement for their Defaulted Chinese Government Bonds. They are making provision for American Citizens can attached State Own Enterprises of the PRC payments and chattels. For more information go to www.globalsecuritieswatch.org/S.Con.Res.78.pdf

Sammy
05-01-08, 12:01 AM

THE BIG QUESTION IS

Yes, the big question is; Who are the real owners of these Chinese factories?

Let us look at things in a realistic view: Who is making the profits from this child slave labor?

Do labor laws exist in China?

Are government leaders involved in this child slave labor?

Does human life have a value in China?

Do parents value money more than they do their children?

It seems that China gives more importance to becoming an economic super power rather than becoming a responsible nation where it protects its child labor laws and family values, respect for human life.

I believe that this nation must be ashamed in the eyes of all civilized societies, and hide its head in the sand, when it culture has not established a society that values more money than the respect for human values.

No matter what political idiology a nation practices, but one of the basic fundimentals of a civilized culture is to respect human rights, and this also means that no person has the right to sell or buy another person, because each person is born with the basic right of being free, and must be cared by its parents, or by the state until it reaches adulthood, or a determined age of consent, the government must guarantee this right incase the family is not in condition to do so.

Sammy

~galljdaj+
05-01-08, 05:18 AM

Finder's Fees are great capitalistic benefits!!!

The bush administration is full of such people!

Billions of dollars in 'costs' have been procured by the Gang’s Finders!

All protected!

How many children find danger in US BOMBLETS? How many found death or injury in the US Parent Bomb?

Irony, hypocracy, ignorance, good old christian it wasn’t me, 'I pray for them', seems to abound!

I believe the 'Whiteman' that invaded the Americas has a History of some 500 + years, and only about 70 years of child labor laws, thanks to communist workers!

Those 'whitemen' first made slaves of the natives of the Americas, and when the numbers of the natives ran out they were replaced by blacks! Men Women and Children were victims!

How nice it is to be messianic about your purity!


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