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THE city's labour department launched a major crackdown on the non-payment of migrant workers last Tuesday, the Shanghai Youth Daily has reported.
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- week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Wages, please!
THE city's labour department launched a major crackdown on the non-payment of migrant workers last Tuesday, the Shanghai Youth Daily has reported.
- Local food promotion drive
THE city has decided to launch its first food culture fair at the East Asia Exhibition Hall in the Shanghai Stadium on March 17, to promote the local food industry. The five-day event aims to display the city's brand name food to challenge its overseas counterparts.
- Up against an international giant
DETERMINED to "unlock Nestle's door of silence", Zhu Yanling boarded a flight from Shanghai to Switzerland last Friday to take her complaint about non-labelling of genetically modified food to the company's headquarters, the Shanghai Youth Daily has reported.
- Begging sweep in the Metro
ADMINISTRATIVE departments have launched a raid against beggars in the Metro system, beginning December 15. This is said to be the largest action of its kind to date, the Shanghai Youth Daily has reported.
- Shell's growing presence
A RED Formula 1 Ferrari which arrived in Shanghai last Friday symbolizes the determination of the Royal Dutch Shell Group to dominate China's lubricant market.
- Terrorist menace in China's West
BEIJING - China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) appealed for greater international co-operation in combating terrorism after issuing a list of the first identified "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations and 11 alleged terrorists on Monday.
- Sex orgy turns sour
ZHUHAI - The trial arising from a tour of 200 Japanese tourists who cavorted with Chinese prostitutes ended this week with two Chinese defendants sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Unrecognized discovery
THREE elderly farmers in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province are seeking recognition, before they die, of their role in discovering the famous ancient terracotta warriors in Xi'an, reports the China Business Review.
- Damaging environment blights lives of children
MORE than 40 per cent of the children living in the Santianmen residential area in Huzhou of neighbouring Zhejiang Province have suffered different levels of lead-poisoning after long term inhalation of air polluted by a battery factory, a CCTV programme - Joint Attention - disclosed on November 14.
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