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		<title>500 Workers from Foxconn India Stage Protest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Express News Service, workers who came under exposure of mysterious gas leak at Foxconn factory in Sriperumbudur were admitted to Ramachandra Medical College Hospital, Porur, on Saturday morning (24th July) with complaints of giddiness, nausea and breathlessness. Later, all but 15 of them, were discharged after treatment. Of the remaining 15, five remained in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s factories hit by wave of strikes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industrial unrest has been spreading through China&#8217;s factories, with strikes breaking out in the south, east and north. China correspondent Damian Grammaticas has been to the industrial heartland in southern Guangdong province to examine why the strikes are happening and what the implications are. It is 0730 local time in Shenzhen, China&#8217;s factory heartland, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn suicides: &#8216;Workers feel quite lonely&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A string of suicides at a factory in China owned by Taiwan firm Foxconn has highlighted what some say is a stressful working environment for migrant workers. Foxconn says it is employing trained counsellors and installing more leisure facilities at the factory in Shenzhen to help its staff, as well as increasing salaries to boost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Samsung be green and cancerous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 31 March 2010, 23-year-old Park Ji-yeon died of leukaemia. She contracted the blood cancer at the age of 20 after working at the Samsung semiconductor factory in Onyang, South Korea. Her case is part of a cancer cluster affecting workers at the microelectronics giant. Samsung’s response to a high profile campaign for justice for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung to take responsibility for lethal hazards of semiconductor manufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The families and friends of electronics manufacturing workers at Samsung in Korea have discovered a cancer cluster among young workers exposed to toxic chemicals. The pattern of cancer deaths bears a striking resemblance to the pattern of cancer deaths among IBM “chip” workers in the US and to other electronics cancer clusters around the world. [...]]]></description>
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