China’s workers build cities and pay taxes. But aside from meager salaries, they get almost nothing in return: no health care, pension, housing subsidy or education. In this video clip, Laura Ling looks into the rights of migrant workers. [Click to see] – See also Slideshow: Migrants’ Children via CDT
Read MoreIn this video, Laura Ling took a close look into the sex industry in Beijing. She says that “most sex workers are migrants, part of the estimated 120 to 200 million people who have left China’s countryside in search of better-paying jobs in China’s cities.” [Click to see the origial video] Also related, First Sex […]
Read MoreThis time Laura Ling talks about China’s great firewall and reports that “an information battle is taking place between China’s 120 million Internet users and the Chinese government’s web censors.” Ling also interviewed Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor and Director of The China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at […]
Read MoreLaura Ling, a Current Correspondent, takes a glance at China’s massive makeover as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2008. She talks about transportation, economic phenomenon, pollution, common people’s living condition and other social issues. [Original Video Here]
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