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To: CIMA who wrote (9713)	7/29/2000 10:53:27 PM
From: hui zhou	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

This day people can write anything they like to distort the fact and publish in the free press. I agree people live in the West enjoy more individual rights than the people in the development nations. The law get a lot more repect in the West than the country like china. Yes, some of the TV program blindly brownnose the communist leadership really turn me off. No doubt, China needs the strong independent legal system to protect the individual rights. But I have to said the captialist system emphasizing mainly on profit really takes off the rights from people as well. When I read the help wanted ads in the newspaper, I see company like Lucent Technology wanted to hire a technician with age cap of no older than 35 years old. That is appalling human rights violation. I guess Cathie Lee Gifford should raise her standard of her rumor sweatshop. Bosses from Taiwan, US(i.e. NIKE) don't want to pay more, who should get the most blame? China did set up a minimum wage guideline to let the business follow. The worst working condition with little labor protection are those small business set up by Taiwan, HK's. That is why so many workers hate Taiwanese. You hard to grail out a penny from them. > manufacturing wages average just 20 cents an hour and go as low as 13 cents are hour. Working conditions are horrendous in factories< I doubt this number, sounds too low. The unemployed and under employed folks should be able to collect this amount. If you work for CIA, you should know better than this. Workers are forced to toil 70, 80 and even 90 hours per week, protective equipment is rare, physical abuse common, dorms filthy and unexplained ``penalties'' often reduce pay cheques to near zero," San Francisco< Chronicle reporter Robert Collier wrote in May. He spoke to Wang Pingli, a young woman worker at a Reebok shoe factory. Private business who violate the local law may do so. This is not true for China's state enterprises. The average working days are actually reduced from 6 to 4-5. Add together about 1 month of vacation time per year plus free or low cost medicare. >Amnesty International reports that computer software businessman Lin Hai became the first person in China imprisoned for "subversive" use of the Internet.< Do you learn recently a New Jersey man get arrested for abusing the internet? >1999 saw the most serious and wide-ranging crack-down on peaceful dissent in China for a decade," reports Amnesty International. "Those targeted in the crack-down included political dissidents, anti-corruption campaigners, labour rights activists, human rights defenders and members of unofficial religious or spiritual group.< I think some of the crack-down are very wrong. But some of them are right and very needed. I even think they did too little in anti-corruption campaign. Those who embezzle the public money and those who abuse their power should get strong punishment to ensure the clean and efficient government. Also, a line should be drawn for the religious and cult. If those movement is bad, they should get the treatment like this. chinadaily.com.cn