CHILD SLAVE LABOR RING BUSTED IN CHINA

Nearly 200 children were found to be part of a child labor ring in China. But hey, as long as you can still get lots of cheap plastic stuff, do you really care?

Chinese police have rescued 167 children sold into labour in factories after an undercover newspaper investigation alleged that more than 1,000 had been sold "like cabbages", reports said today.

The state media said authorities in Dongguan, in the southern province of Guangdong, had launched a drive to rescue them.

The report claimed that children as young as seven, from the ethnic Yi minority, had been sold at a street market in the south-western province of Sichuan before being driven in trucks over 600 miles to the Pearl river delta.

Yeah. Child Labor. What? You thought the Chinese economy was rising because of hard work?
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