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Apple Severs Chinese Vendor Because Of Underage Employees

Jan 25 2013, 2:13am CST | by

74 employees, to be exact

Apple has immediately ended its partnership with a Chinese supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics (PZ), after it found out that the company had dozens of employees that were under the...

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China’s textile industry ‘more diversified’

Source: China Daily  |   May 24 2013, 8:47am CDT

Cost rises of labor and raw materials have pushed China’s textile industry to become more diversified, Karin Malmstrom, China director of Cotton Council International, the export promotion unit of the Nation ...

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Russia not a mediator between India, China: Envoy

Source: Zee News  |   May 24 2013, 8:32am CDT

Panaji: Russia does not see itself as a mediator between India and China, a senior diplomat said on Friday. Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M Kadakin said that recent developments (Chinese incursion in Ladakh) were "unfortunate", but Chin ...

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"China’s emerging middle class prefer good quality cotton products, which makes it a big market for high-end products"


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`BJP`s stand on ties with China, Pak jingoistic`

Source: Zee News  |   May 24 2013, 8:32am CDT

New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Friday accused the BJP of taking "regressive and jingoistic" stand on several foreign policy issues and for rousing "chauvinist" feelings to create confrontation with Pakistan and China. ...

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Survey shows China manufacturing contracting

Source: Gulfnews  |   May 24 2013, 8:15am CDT

Beijing: A survey shows China’s manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile recovery in the world’s No 2 economy is slowing. HSBC Corp said Thursday the preliminary version of its monthly purchasing mana ...

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China inks accord with US to share audit files

Source: Economic Times  |   May 24 2013, 7:58am CDT

BEIJING: China has signed an agreement with the US to share company audit files, it said today, paving the way for more probes into accounting scandals involving Chinese firms listed in the US. The China affiliates of five top accounting fir ...

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China, Switzerland Complete Trade Talks

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 24 2013, 7:30am CDT

By Neil MacLucas and John Revill ZURICH—The completion of a free-trade agreement between China and Switzerland will promote global commerce and help open the world's second-largest economy to the outside world, Chinese Premier Li Keqi ...

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How Well Do China and India Know Each Other?

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 24 2013, 7:09am CDT

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves at the media in front of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his ceremonial reception at the Indian President's palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. (Saurabh Das/AP) A version of this post app ...

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North Korean envoy meets China president

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 24 2013, 7:02am CDT

BEIJING: A North Korean envoy met China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday and handed him a personal letter from leader Kim Jong-Un, Chinese state-run media reported. Choe Ryong-Hae told Xi that North Korea is willing to take ...

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China Expresses Interest in Mt. Wologizi

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 24 2013, 6:59am CDT

The Government of the People's Republic of China says the controversial Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County remains its vested area of investment in Liberia. Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Zhao Jianhua said eve ...

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NKorean envoy delivers letter to China's Xi

Source: FindLaw: AP News  |   May 24 2013, 6:55am CDT

BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent ...

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China Outlines List of Overhauls

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 24 2013, 6:26am CDT

BEIJING—China announced Friday a lengthy list of overhauls it wants to push ahead with this year, ranging from faster urbanization to controversial property taxes, as its new leaders try to speed structural reforms amid slowing economic gro ...

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3 hours ago

Microsoft extends Azure's reach to China, Japan, and Australia

Source: InfoWorld  |   May 24 2013, 5:36am CDT

Seeking to pad its billion(ish)-dollar Azure business with yuan, yen, and dollarydoos, Microsoft will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its hybrid cloud platform to China, Japan, and Australia. The move, which makes M ...

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Apple Severs Chinese Vendor Because Of Underage Employees

Jan 25 2013, 2:13am CST | by

74 employees, to be exact

Apple has immediately ended its partnership with a Chinese supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics (PZ), after it found out that the company had dozens of employees that were under the age of 16.

"The children were returned to their families, and PZ was required to pay expenses to facilitate their successful return," Apple wrote in a statement regarding the decision.

The discovery of underage workers came from an independent audit. Apple has become a much more vocal proponent of random and thorough audits of all overseas companies that it deals with, primarily because of the extremely bad press it got from the worker conditions at the massive company Foxconn.

But with all the attention being placed on Foxconn, it perhaps doesn't come as too much of a surprise that other companies were skating by with questionable practices under the radar. At least until now.

In China, the legal working age is 16. A previous investigation found that Foxconn indeed had also hired minors, but Foxconn claimed it didn't even know this, and blamed it on either the youngsters falsifying records, or managers who did not follow the proper policies.

When that story broke, Foxconn said its policy was to immediately terminate anyone responsible for the hiring of minors.

It isn't clear exactly how young the workers at PZ were, but there were 74 people who were found to be under 16.

Apple added, "The company that subcontracted its work to PZ was prompted by our findings to audit its other subcontractors for underage labor violations -- proving that one discovery can have far-reaching impact."

Via Cnet

 

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