Zhengzhou, China News

More horrors out now from the Chinese serf-labor system involved in creating Apple products like iPads, iPhones and Kindles.

More horrors out now from the Chinese serf-labor system involved in creating Apple products like iPads, iPhones and Kindles.

Foxconn Electronics's plants in Shenzhen, Chongqing and Zhengzhou, China have all reportedly seen over 90% of their employees return to work after the Lunar New Year and the high return rate is believed to have been triggered by improvements in salary and welfare as well as local governments' policy guidance, according to sources from upstream ... (more)

Ms Yan, 30, is among a growing group who fear and detest returning to their home towns during Chinese New Year.

Electronics manufacturer Foxconn might hire as many as 100,000 more employees at a plant in Zhengzhou, China, to accommodate demand for the next version of Apple's iconic iPhone.

As some manufacturers pull out of China's increasingly costly coastal regions and move to the hinterlands, many workers in traditional manufacturing hubs have decided to stay in their home provinces -- a decision that is sparking a real movement of laborers inland.

Despite the bad press around Foxconn's factories in China, thousands continue to line up for jobs at the factory in Zhengzhou.

An investigation of the five-star tourist spot found piles of garbage, disorderly service and traffic paralyzed by roadside venders and dealers, according to a report by tourism authorities.

For the first time this year, crops started the week on the back foot - even New York raw sugar , on its first outing with an earlier start.

It may have got rich serving the "factory floor of the world" in the Pearl River Delta, but the giant Shenzhen port is having to move with the times.

Beijing, Jan 23 : China Monday welcomed its Lunar New Year or the Year of the Dragon with celebrations across the country.

Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2012 shows the D615 bullet train is pulled by a locomotive in Xuchang of central China's Henan Province.

A Hindu woman held an oil lamp as she offered prayers to the sun god at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers during the Makar Sankranti festival in India Saturday.

When 150 workers at Foxconn climbed to the roof of one of its factories in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in a labour dispute earlier this month, it was a chilling reminder of the suicide series that shook the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer less than two years ago.