China's annual college entrance exam attracted a record 10 million students this year, the South China Morning Post reported. Only 5.7 million places are available in the two-day National College Entrance Examination. The exams determine a student's admission to university, and doing well is seen as a way to drastically improve a student's fortunes later […]
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Farmers, the physically challenged and people with infectious diseases face constant discrimination, according to a study released in Beijing Monday. About 65% of people polled by the Constitutional Research Institute (CRI) of the Chinese University of Politics and Law said the physically challenged were discriminated against and about 45% thought migrant workers faced similar treatment, […]
China's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has launched a probe into the salaries of employees at state-owned enterprises (SOEs). According to a notice posted Monday at the commission's website, the probe will focus on average incomes and raises between 2004 and 2006 among employees of municipal, provincial and central SOEs. The commission has also ordered […]
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Students not covered by minimum wage laws
Students in Guangdong province that have to work to support themselves are not protected by labor laws. New legislation that kicked in earlier this year sets minimum wages for part-time workers at a less-than-princely US$0.95 or RMB7.5 per hour but, as it turns out, these rules can be really more like guidelines or suggestions as […]