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BEIJING - THE Chinese government has sacked two officials and suspended relocation work after up to 1,000 people protested in a wealthy eastern province last week, angry at compensation for land seizures, state media said. The protests lasted for four days in part of Suzhou, a manufacturing hub close to Shanghai in the eastern... 

By Regina Leung from South China Morning Post Over a hundred protesters outside the Legislative Council called for a minimum wage law on Wednesday as lawmakers debated the controversial issue that has divided the city's business sector and labour groups. The protesters, many of whom were low-paid workers, said the government... 

The Singapore Government and the U.S. State Department have clashed over the issue of trafficking workers and prostitutes. In recent days the authorities of the city-state have published a document in response to criticisms of non-compliance contained in the annual U.S. report on human trafficking. "Singapore-reads the paper...