Migrant workers often go unpaid for their labor, state media reported, citing two surveys released. In 2004 alone, unpaid wages totaled nearly US$2.5bn and a quarter of 3,288 migrant workers questioned said they were not fully paid, according to the National Economic Research Institute survey. In Beijing, US$375m was owed last year to 700,000 laborers […]
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Just after President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met for a fence-mending session over the ongoing Sino-Japan dispute over false history teaching, Japanese Education Minister Nobutaka Machimura hit out at China's schoolbooks, noting, "from the perspective of a Japanese person, Chinese textbooks appear to teach that everything the Chinese government has done […]
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The years between 1948 and 1976 were some of the most turbulent in China’s recent history – a baffling time for those living through it,
Native Shanghainese men don't match up to their migrant counterparts in the employability stakes, a recent survey of Shanghai businesses found. According to the study by headhunting firm Zhaopin.com, migrant workers are seen as diligent, hardworking and more willing to put in extra hours, while Shanghainese men are perceived as arrogant and do more talking […]
Reporting results from its global executive MBA survey, the Financial Times said China is emerging as a main centre of business education. The study, which rated 75 programs, ranked the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai in the top 20. The highest ranked "Chinese" program, the FT said, was Hong Kong University of […]