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Taipei, June 16 (Central News Agency, Taiwan) The semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said Tuesday that it had contacted its Chinese counterpart to help in issues relating to the death of two Taiwanese businessmen murdered by a Chinese man a day earlier in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Chen Jung-yuan, director of the SEF's trade and commerce department, said it sent a letter on Monday to the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) asking for its assistance in dealing with the murders after the news reached Taipei from Donguan's Dalang township.

Source: Global Labour Strategies (GLS) Nearly three years ago GLS undertook an informal listening project to hear what was on the minds of labor leaders, labor rights advocates, and NGO staff from around the world as they grappled with the challenges of globalization. It is clear that globalization has produced a host of challenges for worker and social movements. But when we asked those we interviewed what specific issues they faced were most perplexing, at or near the top of nearly everyone’s list was what to do about China.

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The mainland's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Cabinet, said Wednesday that it was "highly concerned" about a mainland worker's murder of two factory employers from Taiwan. On June 15, Liu Hanhuang, a worker at the Zhan Ming Hardware Producing Factory in Dongguan City of south China's Guangdong Province, quarreled with three Taiwan managers over compensation for a work accident. He then killed two and severely injured one.

by Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

Hong Kong Liaison Office (IHLO) of the international trade union movement April 2009http://www.ihlo.org/LRC/ACFTU/070509A.html Last September, the financial crisis spread to China. This had a direct impact on eastern and southern China, especially the export manufacturing areas in the southeast of China. There was a large increase in factory closures and layoffs further exacerbating a general trend of factory closures in the region.

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