Thursday, December 09, 2004

News

Ship Collision Creates China's Largest Oil Spill: The biggest oil spill since the founding of the People's Republic of China began on Tuesday when two containerships collided in the South China Sea near the mouth of the Pearl River on Tuesday.

"Professional exhaustion" harassing Chinese society: The phenomenon of "professional exhaustion", or "burnout", which is widely spread in world scale, is harassing the working population of China. This is shown in a large-scale online survey sponsored by China Human Resources Development Network, an attempt to figure out the exhaustion degree of the society.

China Blocks World Meeting on Workers' Rights: China on Wednesday abruptly blocked a meeting of global union and business leaders scheduled for next week that aimed to press Beijing to do more to protect workers' rights. [NYT: free reg. req.]


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