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Lee Jae-myung's rise from poverty to the South Korean presidency
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» SEOUL - Lawsuits, scandals, armed troops and a knife-wielding attacker all failed to deter Lee Jae-myung's ascendancy from sweatshop worker to the South Korean presidency.
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.
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.
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.
'Squid Game' lessons
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/10/2021
» Re: "'Squid Game' rings true in our new reality," (BP, Oct 12).
Hi-so clubbing, Covid explosion: Krystal clear
Published on 06/06/2021
» When the VVIP customers disembarked from their limousines at the Krystal Exclusive Club, young women in tiaras, angel wings and not much else sometimes greeted them.
Jay Jiang Yu on Supporting Youth through Sports and Education with his Non-profit LunarNYC
Published on 24/03/2021
» Hard work, persistence, and passion are musts to be a successful entrepreneur. Some business founders come from fairly solid backgrounds, while others are not so fortunate.
Workers riot at India iPhone factory over 'exploitation' claims
AFP, Published on 14/12/2020
» BANGALORE, India: Authorities vowed to crack down on workers who went on a violent rampage at a Taiwanese-run iPhone factory in southern India over allegations of unpaid wages and exploitation, with 100 people arrested so far.
Drunk people can't socially distance, UK police conclude
AFP, Published on 05/07/2020
» LONDON: Britain's police said Sunday that revellers who packed London's Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it "crystal clear" that drunk people cannot socially distance.