The Chinese government will this year push through the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference held in Beijing on Monday. The controversial system presently allows police to detain

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Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world. It originated from the eight-hour day movement in the nineteenth century. Labor unions called for eight hours for work, eight hours for play, and eight hours for sleep. It then became a re

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – July 8, 2002: World Day Against Child Labor By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The United Nations International Labor Organization has launched a y

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THIS IS AMERICA - September 2, 2002: Labor Movement Songs Postage stamp honoring child labor reform VOICE ONE: Labor Day is an American holiday that honors working people. It is celebrated each year o

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US Labor Day Arrives Five Months Late September 7 is Labor Day in the U.S., a national holiday that began more than 100 years ago to honor low-paid factory workers. Labor Day also informally marks the end of summer. Many children return to school aft

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The Chinese government will this year push through the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference held in Beijing on Monday. The controversial system presently allows police to detain

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The laojiao system allows police to detain people for up to four years without an open trial. Leading experts have argued this contradicts Chinese laws and China's Constitution. The system has made headlines in recent months, with several cases of pe

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Spanish workers took to the streets Thursday to protest sweeping labor reforms, public spending cuts and widespread unemployment. The 24-hour general strike comes a day before government ministers are set to adopt a new austerity budget to meet stric

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China's railway authorities say more than ten million trips by train were made by travellers on Thursday, the first day of the three-day Labor Day holiday. This figure is around twenty percent higher that the same time last year, making it a record h

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Many immigrants settled in New York City in the nineteenth century. They found that living conditions were not as wonderful as they had dreamed. Often there were six families crowded into a house made for one family. Thousands of children had to go t

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French Police Fire Tear Gas at Labor Protesters in Paris French riot police fired tear gas Tuesday at hundreds of protesters trying to storm a Paris auto show, during nationwide protests over mounting job losses in a moribund economy with 10 percent

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WASHINGTON, March 18 (Xinhua)-- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Thomas Perez, the federal assistant attorney general for civil rights, as the new Labor Secretary. If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first Hispanic chosen for Obam

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CANBERRA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Australian Labor Party's primary vote stands at just 30 percent, down 5 points since December, the latest Herald/Nielsen poll published in Fairfax newspapers showed on Monday. This is the first time that Tony Abbott is t

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They're planning a strike that will paralyze the government to force President Yar'Adua to hand over power to the Vice President. Labor officials say it appears they are the last hope, according to VOA reporter Chinedu Offor, who is on travel in Imo

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is Tom Dalzell, senior editor of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English -- and, now, the Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconven

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今天我们要学的词是 child labor. Child labor童工。World leaders pledged two years ago to end child labor by 2025. 国际领导人两年前承诺,要在2025年以前结束童工的存在。然而,A new UN report estimates there were 152

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美国人的时间观念 There are two elements in life that Americans do save carefully: time and labor. 在美国人的生活中,有两样东西他们确实在小心地节省:时间和人力。 Americans are slaves to nothing but the clock jt

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U.S. labor leaders met with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, calling on him to reject deep cuts in pensions and health care for the elderly as he works to resolve crucial government financial issues by the end of the year. Newly re-elected, Obama i

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Peng Dingchang is a worker in Guangzhou Automobile Group's welding department in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province. He says in the past an eight worker unit needed to spend 3 minutes on assembling. Now, by using robots, the time for assembly h

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Its a situation nobody likes to face. But there is always the possibility for any company employee to be confronted with the harsh reality of being fired. 这是一种所有人都不愿面对的状况。但任何一家公司的职员都可能遇上被解

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