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15th March

At least 94 people living near the Sichuan Longchang Zhongyi Alloy Company tested positive for lead poisoning. The poisoning was discovered following a health check-up of a local resident. The factory has been closed and the case is still under investigation. 

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1st March

Apple has reported child labour in three of its Chinese factories. Apple stated that 3 of its suppliers had employed 11 children over the course of 2009, with the youngest being only 15 years old.

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28th Feb

Koito Industries falsifies safety test results. Koito Industries Ltd has been ordered to stop selling products to airlines because the company falsified safety test results on 150,000 seats. The company allegedly tampered with computer programs  so that its products cleared safety benchmarks, made changes to seat designs without reporting them, omitted some tests and rewrote test results.

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8th Feb

More tainted milk found in latest crackdown. Milk powder has been recalled amid a 10-day nationwide crackdown on melamine-tainted dairy products, authorities have said.

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5th Feb

Church of England disinvests from Vedanta. The Church of England Pensions Board has sold its shares in Vedanta Resources plc on the advice of the Church’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG). EIAG Chairman, John Reynolds, said: “…. we are not satisfied that Vedanta has shown, or is likely in future to show, the level of respect for human rights and local communities that we expect of companies in whom the Church investing bodies hold shares.”

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2nd Feb

US senator asks companies about China rights practices. A US senator on Tuesday asked 30 leading companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Nokia and Twitter, for information about their human rights practices in China after Google's threat to leave the country over cyberattacks and Web censorship.

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29th Jan

Nike admits poor labour practice By OEMs. More than 170 tons of According to the Nike's 2007-2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, more than 20% of Nike's original equipment manufacturers have asked their employees to work excessive overtime hours and this number is still on the increase.

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28th Jan

Workers at Wintek factory protest over pay and toxic chemicals. Angry employees attacked a Taiwanese company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, over management and pay disputes. At least four workers are claimed to have died from overexposure to hexane, a toxic chemical that workers had been asked to use for cleaning touch panels.

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4th Jan

Markwins International loses lawsuit in Shenzhen. The American company, that produces cosmetics and beauty products for Calvin Klein, and is a major supplier to Walmart, was ordered to pay 800,000 yuan in compensation for non-payment of statutory overtime and social insurance contributions for more than one hundred workers.

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2nd Jan

Battery plant closed after lead poisoning found. Aokelai Power Co. Ltd, formerly Zeliang Battery Factory, in south China has been closed after more than 40 children were found to have excessive lead levels in their blood. 

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