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Guangdong cracks down on child labor in factories

The Guangdong government has vowed to launch a province-wide investigation to end child labor after local newspapers reported that more than 1,000 children from Liangshan, Sichuan province, were working at factories of Dongguan. The emer ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Sat, May 03 2008

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12 Jun 07 visit Child laborers may have made Olympic products  »  Shanghai Daily THE Dongguan City government in Guangdong Province has launched an investigation into a stationery company that is suspected of using child labor to produce Olympic-licensed products.
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