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False Eden, real hell
Life, Published on 24/05/2023
» Sometimes Cannes pulls a poker face and smacks a big surprise down on its famous red carpet, all without a blink or a wink. This year, it comes in the form of a three-and-a-half-hour documentary about Chinese sweatshop workers, shot entirely in a crummy garment district on the mainland's eastern coast.
Cannes gets rare look at real life in Chinese factories
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» CANNES (FRANCE) - Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing got incredible access to the inner workings of his country's textile industry by spending five years with its employees, but he fears it may be more difficult for him to work there in future.
The lethal price of sweatshop development
Oped, Published on 19/05/2023
» It has been ten years since an eight-storey commercial building housing several textile factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on April 24, 2013. The collapse of Rana Plaza claimed the lives of 1,134 people and severely injured 2,000 more, most of them women.
Unlocking global supply chains
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton.
Bangladesh factory disaster survivors plead for justice 10 years on
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» SAVAR (BANGLADESH) - Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Akhter feared for her safety, but was told to start her shift or risk forfeiting her wages. An hour later she was pinned down under rubble and clinging to life.
Japan's rare intimacy coordinators in demand after abuse scandals
AFP, Published on 23/02/2023
» KAWASAKI (JAPAN) - On a set outside Tokyo, Momoko Nishiyama sits with the drama's director and watches as a man undresses a woman, guiding the love scene as one of just two "intimacy coordinators" in Japan.
As China lifts pandemic border controls, mixed feelings at home and abroad
Published on 08/01/2023
» HONG KONG: Over the past three years, Zhou Wanhui, a Hong Kong resident, has visited her parents in China just three times.
Sweatshop probe called a 'sham'
Published on 05/01/2023
» Police have have been accused of conducting a “sham” investigation into alleged forced labour at a Mae Sot garment factory that formerly supplied the Tesco retail chain, after officials took just one day to conclude no laws were broken.
Mae Sot sweatshop probe under way
Published on 30/12/2022
» Police and labour officials have begun screening more than 100 former workers at a factory in Mae Sot that supplied clothes to the UK retailer Tesco to determine if they were victims of forced labour.
Vietnam factory workers laid off as West cuts imports
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» HO CHI MINH CITY - Phan Thi Nhieu has spent a decade assembling shoes for worldwide brands such as Timberland and K-Swiss, but she is now among tens of thousands of Vietnamese factory workers laid off as Western consumers cut spending.