Forced labor

U.S. 05/19/21, 20:50

U.S. Customs blocked a shipment of clothing from Uniqlo, a Japanese company, on Jan. 5 at the Port of Los Angeles, but the news came to light Wednesday, May 19, because the Chinese government denounced customs officials. The blockade of a shipment of Uniqlo brand men's clothing whose parent company is ...

U.S. 09/15/20, 02:59

A federal border control authority is banning products that appear to be made from forced labor. A variety of fabric, clothing, hair products, and computer parts will be prohibited because there are reasonable grounds to suspect they originated from state-sponsored forced labor camps in mainland China. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ...

U.S. 10/03/19, 14:28

The government recently announced that it will stop importing clothing, precious metals, and other goods suspected of having been produced by forced labor in various parts of the world. One of the companies sanctioned is Hetian Taida Apparel Co. Ltd., which is located in Xinjiang, a region of China strongly ...

Business 10/02/19, 03:36

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is holding imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe. An official ...

Asia & Pacific 04/04/19, 03:51

Survivors and family members of laborers forced to work during WWII have sued another Japanese company seeking compensation

World 03/09/19, 17:57

(Minghui.org) A 22-year-old young man suffered a mental collapse after seven months of torture in a forced labor camp in China. He was incarcerated for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Wang Jian spent the next 18 years fighting mental instability and declining ...

Business 01/08/19, 22:03

A South Korean district court said Wednesday it has decided to freeze the local assets of a Japanese company involved in compensation disputes for wartime Korean laborers.Last October, South Korea's top court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. to pay 100 million won ($88,000) each to four plaintiffs forced ...

World 12/20/18, 06:49

The Chinese government lashed out Thursday at recent U.S. media reports about forced labor of mostly ethnic Muslim detainees in China's far western Xinjiang region. The stories are "a malicious attack that severely distorts the fact," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing in response to a ...

Business 12/19/18, 22:12

From toys to clothing to the food on the Christmas dinner table, it could all be the result of forced labor or child labor

World 12/19/18, 05:05

The U.S. government said Tuesday that it is reviewing reports of forced labor at a Chinese internment camp where ethnic minorities are sewing clothes that have been shipped to the U.S. market. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that reporting by The Associated Press and other media "for ...

World 11/28/18, 22:12

South Korea's top court on Thursday ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, in the second such ruling in a month that again drew strong protests from Japan.The latest verdict on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was widely expected ...

Asia & Pacific 10/30/18, 02:25

In a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea's Supreme Court has ruled that a Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.The long-awaited ruling, delivered after more than five years of deliberation at Seoul's ...