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Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines'
An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west. The research, carried out by two NGOs, has revealed disturbing allegations of excessive working hours and draconian workplace rules at two major plants in southern China. It has also uncovered an "anti-suicide" pledge that workers at the two plants have been urged to sign, after a series of employee deaths last year.
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STRUGGLING TO sit up, Frederic Couture surveyed his torn trouser leg and the bloodied strips of flesh which were all that remained of his foot. A landmine had exploded, blowing the rest of it away. "I'm 21-years-old and I've lost my foot,'' he cried. "What am I going to do now?''
"You'll be fine,'' his comrades tried to reassure him, pulling hard on the tourniquet they had tied just above the ragged wound. "You'll be fine.'' But it was not true - not really.
The young Canadian private was inconsolable. "I'm 21 and I've lost my foot,'' he repeated. "What do you think I'm going to do?'' |
"Long live Bhutto," Benazir Bhutto shouted, waving to the crowd surging around her car. They were her last words before three gunshots rang out and she slumped back on to her seat. |
"My face and clothes were splattered with the blood of this boy. I never knew blood was warm."
SOPIKA had only ever known war. It had always been there, part of the scenery, part of her very existence. Yet for the first nine of her 10 years, it had seemed to visit only those on the edges of her life. Now, as the bullet passed through the body of the young boy ahead of her on the edge of the lagoon on the north east coast of Sri Lanka where she and her family had sought refuge from the killing, it finally found her. |
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Aarti is stumbling across the fields, tears streaming down her face. Every now and again, she turns to look back over her shoulder, terrified that she is being followed. The man had shown her a gun, threatened her. She knew if they caught her that her life would be in great danger.
She started to cry again. It was the third time her mother had sold her to a stranger. All to keep her away from Sanjay, the boy she loved, the boy she had first seen on the rooftop of the neighbouring house in the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, that most famous monument to love. The boy who was from the wrong caste, the boy her mother would never let her marry. Aarti reaches the road, hails a rickshaw, finds a phone and calls Sanjay. He calls the Love Commandos. |
THERE is a small boy, standing up to his waist in the flood water, staring at the boats that have pulled up to the burial ground in the village of Bago Daro. |
The Taliban were out there, somewhere in the darkness to the north of the jagged peaks of Masum Gar, just the other side of the Arghandab river. They had fired one rocket. Now they were ready to fire again. |
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'He turned to the helicopter and sank to his knees, then I hit him with my rockets'
Caught in the middle of the Helmand river, the fleeing Taliban were paddling their boat back to shore for dear life.
Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed on the two helicopter gunships that had appeared above them.
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North Korea admits its spies snatched a 13-year-old girl from the Japanese mainland. It says she is dead, but her parents' search for the truth goes on. |
Disney factory faces probe into sweatshop suicide claims Disney's best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law, according to an investigation. One worker reportedly killed herself after being repeatedly shouted at by bosses. |
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The tour guide was seething. "Chiang Kai-shek was a psychopathic dictator,'' she shouted, glaring at the woman in the gift shop of what used to be the main memorial to Taiwan's former leader.
"Stop being so emotional. Leave people alone," Wu Shu Hui countered. Business had slumped. The mainland Chinese who had flocked to the hall to learn more about Chiang had stopped coming.
Her opponent leant over the counter. "Emotional?'' she demanded. "He killed so many innocent Taiwanese people.''
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RAJESH was 14 when he disappeared. Beneath a mop of jet black hair, his clear brown eyes glance sideways out of the picture that is all his family have left of him. He was his parents’ only son and they doted and relied on him. One morning in April last year, his mother, Sunita, asked him to go out to fetch water. She remembers him loading the empty plastic containers on to his cart and setting off cheerfully down the lane. It was the last time she saw him. |
MUCH of Britain's promised £1billion aid to India will be administered through a political system mired in corruption, a Sun investigation has discovered. |
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In most elections, a lurch to the Right indicates a political swing: in Kazakhstan, it has more to do with which side of the car voters want their steering wheel positioned.
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Survival of the fittest in Hong Kong
Ten years ago, as Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, the predictions for its future were uniformly bleak. So far, however, the pessimists have been proved wrong.
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Were Kate's favourite dresses made in 6p an hour sweatshop? THE harrowing human cost of clothes that workers claim are made for one of Kate Middleton's favourite high street shops is today exposed by The People. In an investigation with the War on Want charity, we found a Bangladesh factory where hundreds of women - some only teenagers - claim they slave into the night stitching clothes for stores including Zara. |
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Afghan
army takes fight to Taliban's heartland
'It's
been 30 years since our daughter was taken
