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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Shanxi Province

Shanxi Province stories: 2 news summaries

(Newser) - Chinese furious about a lead smelting plant that has sickened some 600 children stormed the factory yesterday after a suicide attempt by teenager who feared she had been poisoned, reports the Wall Street Journal. Some 150 children have been hospitalized due to lead poisoning near the plant in northwest China's... More »

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China • health • Shanxi Province • protests • lead poisoning • contamination

Child Slavery Scandal Blows Up in China

Kids kidnapped, sent to work in brick kilns rescued in giant crackdown

Jun 16, 07 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A child labor scandal is rocking rural China as information surfaces on kidnapped children forced to work as slaves in the country's brick factories. In crackdowns this week, nearly 50,000 police in two Chinese provinces have rescued 550 people, including dozens of the thousands of children believed to be... More »

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China • kidnapping • children • slave labor • slave • Henan Province • Shanxi Province • child labor • factory

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