Category: Labor

S.Africa Court Jails 7 Chinese Nationals for Human Trafficking

A South African court sentenced seven Chinese nationals to 20 years in prison Wednesday for forcing more than 90 Malawians, some as young as 14, to work in a Johannesburg sweatshop. Africa's most industrialised nation is a magnet for undocumented migrants ...

Eswatini Builds Dam With Chinese Firm Despite Taiwan Ties

In a notable show of pragmatism, Eswatini, the only African country that maintains formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, is working with Sinohydro, one of China’s largest state-owned construction firms.

Brazil’s Unions See Potential and Pressures From Chinese Carmakers

By André Duchiade The rapid expansion of the market for electric vehicles in Brazil, particularly Chinese cars, is transforming the country’s automotive industry and could have an impact on workers and production chains, say Brazilian trade unionists in the sector.

BYD Scrambles to Recover From Labor Abuse Controversy in Brazil

The Chinese automotive giant BYD is in full-scale damage control mode following revelations at the end of the year that some of the workers building the company's new factory in northern Brazil had endured "slavery"-like conditions. Initially, the company responded defensively, ...

Brazil Views Labor Violations at BYD Site as Human ‘Trafficking’

By Marc Burleigh Authorities in Brazil said Friday they were probing Chinese auto giant BYD and one of its contractors for suspected "trafficking" of Chinese workers who were building a factory in the South American country.

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

How to Lure Chinese Financing Back to the Global South: Report

Global South countries face increasing financing pressure, endangering their ability to keep developing while also implementing measures to deal with a growing climate crisis. The disruption of global trade is coupled with a larger megatrend: flows of international capital to the developing world have turned negative. This means that countries are now routinely paying more to service loans than they receive in disbursements.

The vast majority of Global South borrowers ...

EV Giant Byd Contractor Denies ‘Slavery-Like Conditions’ in Brazil

A contractor for Chinese EV giant BYD denied on Thursday there were "slave-like conditions" in a Brazil factory, where local officials said they found evidence of forced labor. Local officials in Brazil's northeast Bahia state, where the BYD factory was being ...

Chinese Workers Saved From ‘Slave-Like Conditions’ at BYD Site in Brazil

More than 160 Chinese workers have been saved from "slave-like conditions" in Brazil, where they had been building an electric car factory for Chinese giant BYD, officials said Tuesday. BYD's Brazilian subsidiary said in a statement late Monday it has "broken ...

U.S. Can Do More Than Just Blocking China-Invested Indonesian Nickel

This article is co-authored Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at CELIOS, and Yeta Purnama, a researcher at the Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS). The potential U.S. decision to block nickel imports from Indonesia ...

Viral Video of Two Chinese Nationals Brutally Subduing Local Senegalese Employee Sparks Arrests

Police in Senegal arrested two Chinese nationals after a video of them assaulting a local employee went viral and sparked widespread outrage across the West African country. The worker was a trucker for a Chinese-owned cement company. When the windshield on his ...

Labor Relations at Chinese Construction Sites in Africa

Few topics have shaped perceptions about China's engagement in Africa more than the presence of Chinese construction sites across the continent. Chinese contractors have built countless ports, roads, railways, and more, but the way that work has been done has been ...

Letting Some Get Wealthy First

By Felix Brender 王哲謙 This week, the Communist Party set a rather ambitious GDP growth target of 5%, doubling down on China’s growth narrative and development success story without qualifications. At the same time, CNN and Al Jazeera are reporting on PRC citizens ...

Frantic Attempts to Rescue Seven Workers Trapped in Chinese Mine in Zambia

Zambian authorities are rushing to pump water and mud from a Chinese-owned mine in time to rescue five Zambian and two Chinese workers trapped underground. The workers were caught by an inrush of water on Monday at the Macrolink mine, about ...
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