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Turning to a positive news on the web, police and netizens have come to the rescue of a migrant worker in Shanghai after the family's hard-earned savings blew out of his pocket while he was riding a motorbike and were looted by unknown people.
BBC: China media: Corruption focus
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Xie Shuying, an activist at the Migrant Worker Center, a Shenzhen-based group that helps educate workers on their rights, said the group has been harassed by the local government for the past year.
WSJ: Hon Hai Riot Highlights Squeeze on Chinese Manufacturers
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While the Nepali embassy reported 191 Nepali worker deaths in 2010, and the Indian embassy reported 98 Indian migrant deaths -- ncluding 45 deaths of young, low-income workers due to cardiac arrest, so far in 2012 -- the Qatar Labor Ministry says there have no more than six worker deaths over the last three years.
CNN: Qatar warned over World Cup labor laws
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On July 12, 2008, a group of white high school students, out on the prowl after a night of drinking, encountered one of their female classmates in the company of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old migrant worker from Mexico.
CNN: Behind the scenes: An interview interrupted in Shenandoah