because the Shanxi slave case wasn’t enough

I need to check CSR Asia more often. Here’s a story dated July 11 about how Wang Xiaofeng discovered an illegal factory in Wuhan. It can’t much the Shanxi slave scandal for sheer horror or scale, but still, it’s not pleasant reading and serves as a reminder there’s a lot more work to be done cleaning up sweat shops and stamping out labour abuse.

That’s the unfortunate thing about scandals. They focus everybody’s attention on one issue for a short time, then the media’s attention is drawn elsewhere and everybody forgets. Meanwhile, the hard work still needs to be done. And unfortunately the real hard work isn’t so ‘sexy’ and takes far too long to keep the media’s attention.

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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