[news] Beijing Labourers Dying in Race for Olympic Deadline

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Labourers from poor rural areas of China, some in their teens and often lacking the most basic safety equipment, are working seven-day weeks for less than £20 to complete the facilities for next year's Beijing Olympics...Six workers were killed late last month on an Olympics project, the construction of a subway tunnel.

  


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