The former Party boss of Shizong county in the south western province of Yunnan is being investigated for alleged corruption following the death of 43 miners in a massive gas explosion on 10 November 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Foxconn Technology Group (FOXCGZ), maker of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox game console, said 150 workers at a southern China factory protested against a plan to transfer them to another business unit.

Word today out of China that 150 workers at a factory that makes iPhones all threatened to jump from the top of the building if they didn't get a raise. Those workers at the Foxconn plant did get a raise. It's the same company that got a lot of press over the past few years for a rash of suicides there among workers, but these aren't the only workers protesting work conditions and pay in the country.

There is a saying in China about the coal miners who go underground into the bowels of the earth to earn their living -- that they only become human again when they come back to the surface.

An accident at a chemical plant in eastern China that killed more than a dozen workers was nothing out of the ordinary in a country infamous for its lack of workplace safety.

Miner He Quangui is ready to die. Often hit by coughing fits and breathlessness, he is one of hundreds of thousands in China who have contracted silicosis from working in the country's gold, coal or silver mines. And there is no safe cure.

As Wind Mobile considered bids for $30 million in contracts to expand its wireless network in Canada, one of the competing companies put in a peculiar request. Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera was talking to world-beating network equipment stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens when the Chinese firm Huawei asked if it could rent office space at Wind’s headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront.

A massive coal and gas explosion at a privately-run coal mine in the south-western province of Yunnan has killed at least 34 miners, with nine still unaccounted for, the official media reported 13 November.

Eight coalminers have died and several others remain missing after an explosion underground in China, state media has reported.

After her brother’s death at a coal mine in Xinjiang was covered up, a young migrant worker, Wang Huiping, embarked on a decade-long quest for justice, which eventually resulted in a court awarding her family 150,000 yuan in compensation.