Chinaworks.be: 17 mei 2010 We lezen op www.chinadaily.com.cn Minimum wages rise in 11 provinces Shanghai, Guangdong, and Zhejiang have raised their minimum wage to a level above RMB 1,000, amid a new wave of minimum wages rise among 11 cities and regions. This is the first time that China sees more than one city or region with a 1,000-plus minimum wage at one time after adjustment, following Shenzhen in Guangdong. Shanghai has the highest minimum wage across the country - RMB 1120. Eleven provinces, autonomous regions and municipality cities have raised their minimum wage more than 10%. Hubei, Ningxia, Fujian, Guangdong, and Shandong have increased their rate more than 20%. Jiangsu, Shandong and three other provinces' minimum wage are higher than RMB 900, coming near to the "Thousand Club". Beijing and other provinces are also planning a hike. The minimum wage of Beijing is RMB 800. It is believed Beijing will witness an increase rate of more than 10% this year. Difficulties in employee recruitment in southern and coastal provinces led to the raise as well as high consumption levels in Shanghai and Guangdong.
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Chinaworks.be: 2 juni 2010 We lezen op www.chinadaily.cn Chinese trade union demands KFC raise workers' pay SHENYANG - US fast food chain KFC has failed to respond to a Chinese trade union's demand to increase its employees' salaries, the union's chief said here Wednesday. 
A lawyer representing the tertiary workers' union in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province, sent a letter two months ago to the Shenyang branch of Yum! Brands Inc China Division, which manages KFC outlets in Shenyang, demanding a timely increase in workers' wages. "We urged the company to clarify clauses regarding workers' pay rises in the draft version of the collective labor contract," said Feng Hui, head of the Shenyang Municipal Trade Union for Services Industries.
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Chinaworks.be: 26 mei 2010 Uit: The Wall Street Journal - Digit Blog - Charmian Kok - Deaths at Hon Hai
- Could Raise Questions
- for U.S. Companies
The death of another employee at Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer and assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry not only casts scrutiny on the working conditions at its factories in China, but could also fuel concerns for U.S. companies like Apple and Hewlett-Packard that sell products made by Hon Hai.  - Associated Press
- Cardboard cutouts resembling iPhones were sent on fire by labor activists near the Hon Hai office in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
An employee of Hon Hai died after falling from a building at the firm’s plant in southern China Tuesday, following several others this year, China’s state media Xinhua news agency reported. Most have been ruled suicides, although the most recent death and several others have not been classified. The cause of the spate in suicides among workers at Hon Hai, which also is known by its trade name Foxconn, is hard to pinpoint. Statistically, the rate of suicides isn’t exceptional given the size of the company’s staff – it has 800,000 workers in China, about half of those in Shenzhen – and it’s unclear to what degree the wave of incidents is a result of copycat behavior as found in suicide clusters elsewhere or if there are other factors. Critics have voiced concern that working conditions and long hours at the Taiwanese firm’s factories have added too much pressure on its staff, most of whom are young migrant workers.News Agency GlobalPost conducted an investigation last November uncovering the poor working conditions of employees at some of the suppliers of consumer electronics products. Hon Hai’s chairman defended the company’s practices earlier this week and said it is “definitely not a sweatshop,” the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Chinaworks.be: 26 mei 2010 Vertaling van artikel uit Southern Weekly, een krant uit de provincie Guangdong bekend om zijn controversiële artikels  Who is the owner of this private Taiwanese company Foxconn ??? Source: Wikipedia The Foxconn Technology Group (traditional Chinese: 富士康科技集團; simplified Chinese: 富士康科技集团; ) is a multinational business group anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (traditional Chinese: 鴻海精密工業股份有限公司; LSE: HHPD), a Taiwanese registered corporation headquartered in Tucheng,Taiwan. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; motherboards for UK computer manufacturer Zoostorm; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft, cell phones for Motorola, the Amazon Kindle, and Cisco equipment.[2][3][4][5] Hon Hai was founded in 1974 as a manufacturer of plastic products (notably connectors) by Terry Gou, who remains as its CEO. It has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 1991. The company opened its first manufacturing in Shenzhen, China in 1988, which is now the company's largest plant, with more than 330,000 employees.[3] Beginning in 1994, Foxconn purchased development centres in the United States and Japan. In 1997 and 1998, Foxconn established additional manufacturing plants in the United Kingdom and the United States. As of 2007, the company and its subsidiaries owned plants in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, India, and Vietnam.[3] Recently, the company has come under public scrutiny due to allegations of employee mistreatment. Eleven employees jumped from company buildings in suicide attempts during a five month period in 2010; only two survived.[6] UPDATEThe Foxconn suicide mess is all started from job stress. Within half a year, there are 9 suicides with 7 confirmed-deaths in Foxconn’s factory of China, Shenzhen. In order to find out what’s really going on in that factory, the Southern Weekly, described by The New York Times as China’s most influential liberal newspaper, has sent an amateur reporter to slip into Foxconn’s factory to pretend as a worker and the mission is to find out the truth of the suicide cluster.
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Chinaworks.be: 18 mei 2010 We lezen op www.reuters.com Gratis logies in ruil voor 2u Engelse les per dag Free lodging in China, but only if you speak English  By Farah Master Visitors seeking to see China on a budget would do well to brush up their English language skills to take advantage of a scheme that offers free lodging in Chinese homes in exchange for English tutoring. With the cost of one hour of English tuition costing up to 500 yuan ($73.26) -- unaffordable for the vast majority of Chinese -- a not-for-profit Chinese organization called Tourboarding launched the initiative last month.
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Chinaworks.be: 18 mei 2010 We lezen op www.tijd.be: China koopt weer VS-obligaties  Foto ReutersDe Chinese overheid heeft in de maand maart opnieuw Amerikaanse overheidsobligaties of Treasuries aangekocht. Het is de eerste keer in zes maanden dat China zijn blootstelling aan de overheidsschulden van de VS optrekt. In totaal bezit China voor 895,2 miljard dollar Treasuries.Dat komt neer op een stijging van 2 procent ten opzichte van de 877,5 miljard dollar obligaties die China in februari in portefeuille had. Dat alles blijkt uit cijfers van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Financiën.
Daarmee is China opnieuw de grootste buitenlandse houder van Amerikaans schuldpapier. Het land was die plaats vorig jaar even kwijtgespeeld aan Japan, na enkele grote verkopen van Treasuries. In juli vorig jaar had China nog 939,9 miljard dollar Amerikaanse overheidsobligaties in portefeuille.
Chinaworks.be: 17 mei 2010 We lezen op www.guardian.co.uk Latest Foxconn suicide raises concern over factory life in ChinaOvercrowding and long hours adding to workplace stress, warns expert 
Workers at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, where a series of suicides has sparked concern about the emotional wellbeing of young factory workers in China. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian
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