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Business Employment & Education

Preparing for the GMAT

Getting in is hard, but preparation is the roadmap to success

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Business Employment & Education

View from the ground

Two students share their experiences from Fudan-Washington University’s EMBA program

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Employment & Education

Hepatitis B carriers sue Foxconn for discrimination

Four prospective employees of Taiwanese computer giant Foxconn are suing the company claiming job discrimation, the South China Morning Post reported. The four workers are hepatitis B carriers. The case, to be heard in a Shenzhen court, is the first of its kind in the city. The four are college graduates from Guangdong, Hunan, Shanxi […]

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Employment & Education This Week in China

Bleak house

China’s a source of low-cost workers, but no one said anything about slavery — until now, that is. This week has seen a slew of slave, forced and child labor stories in the media. It’s making all those analogies of modern-day China with the Dickensian image of Industrial Revolution-era England ring truer than ever. The […]

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Slave workers rescued from illegal kilns

Authorities rescued some 379 people working as virtual slaves at brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan provinces, state media reported. Among them were more than 29 children. Some of the workers were abducted and others were forced to work in the kilns after applying for jobs. They were beaten if they refused, starved and forced […]