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Legal aid offices help 150,000 rural Chinese migrant workers

As of the end of March, nearly 150,000 rural migrant workers had sought aid from designated law institutes, the China Legal Aid Foundation said on Monday. Legal aid institutes handled 5,148 lawsuits filed by migrant workers, which i ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Tue, Apr 29 2008

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