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2021-01-02T06:19:03Z

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[/news/china/index.html China] has forbidden a cartoon series from broadcasting after deeming it a 'bad influence' on children due to the characters' hair colours. Hunan Television, one of the biggest state media networks in the country, pulled off the animated show after viewers accused the programme of teaching youngsters 'improper values' because the characters had 'dyed hair'. Shining Star is the Chinese version of a South Korean animated TV show that tells the stories of four girls who compete to join a performing group at a top-flight 'idol school'. China has banned a [https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/cartoon%20series cartoon series] from broadcasting after claiming it had a 'bad influence' on children. Shining Star is the Chinese version of a South Korean animated TV show that tells the stories of girls who are competing to join a performing group at a top-flight 'idol school' The second season of daily cartoon show premiered on Hunan Television's children's channel on May 11. But the screening abruptly halted two weeks later because officials said it had 'improper values', [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phư[# Previous][# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/news/article-8486553/China-admits-coronavirus-pandemic-exposes-problems-countys-wet-markets.html China vows to phase out the live-poultry trade and improve...] [/news/article-8486297/Hong-Kong-activist-flees-city-testifying-Congress.html Hong Kong activist flees the city after testifying before US...] [/news/article-8486071/China-slams-Australia-proposal-safe-haven-Hong-Kong-citizens.html China slams Australia over proposal to give safe haven to...] [/news/article-8483941/Cat-looking-permanently-sad-internet-sensation-unique-facial-pattern.html Feline upset? 'Permanently sad' cat becomes an internet...] Share this article Share 16 shares Hunan Television, one of the biggest state media networks in the country, pulled off the animated show after viewers accused the programme of teaching youngsters 'improper values‘. The picture shows primary school children returning to the campus in Shaanxi The officials explained that the TV series did not aim to encourage hair dyeing and only decided to use it to help the audience distinguish between different characters. The notice continued: 'At the same time, because the series features musical stage performances, there are scenes of [characters] changing between daily clothing and stage clothing. 'It ignored the influence animated shows have on minors and failed to scrutinise the details of the plot,' it added. The broadcaster had pulled off the cartoon programme immediately, the authorities said. But the animated series remains accessible online. Hunan Television pulled off the animated show. The file picture taken September 4, 2009 shows a Chinese singer Jiang Ying Rong performing on stage at a studio of Hunan Television Chinese web users have reacted to the TV station's decision with shock and slammed it as 'ridiculous'. One commenter wrote: 'So what now? We're gonna watch TV in black and white?' Another one replied: [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] 'This is outrageous. Whoever complained about this has some issues himself.' A third netizen commented: 'Is hair dyeing against the law or something? This is why Chinese education is killing children's imagination…' data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links"> Read more: [ gbdsj.hunan.gov....] [ Youku/liluofeng] DM.later('bundle', [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] function() DM.has('external-source-links', 'externalLinkTracker'); );

No More ISlave: An Activist Fights For IPhone Workers

2021-01-01T09:34:16Z

103.130.173.110: Created page with "id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Debby Chan, outside the gates of one of Foxcon..."

id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Debby Chan, outside the gates of one of Foxconn's two factories in Shenzhen, China, works for the Hong Kong-based worker rights group, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior or SACOM. Jay Greene/CNET HONG KONG -- Debby Chan may not have the answer to the terribly complex issues facing workers at the giant Chinese contract manufacturing plants where iPhones are assembled. But she has plenty of questions. Chan's modest office here, shared with another human rights activist, is cluttered with books and papers. Posters hang from the walls, questioning the legitimacy of Burma's 2010 elections. There's another of an iPhone with a graphic on the screen, a worker carrying the [http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/englisch-deutsch/Apple%20logo Apple logo] on his back with blood flowing from his mouth, under the words "No more iSlave." And on a cabinet, there's a picture of Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, who spent 11 years in prison for "counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement," and died on June 6 under suspicious conditions. The government called his hanging a suicide, though his family and other activists suspect authorities, threatened by his activism, are responsible. More than any activist, Chan has been calling attention to the labor rights abuses at Foxconn. Her group, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior or SACOM, has aggressively documented the working conditions at Foxconn's plants in Zhengzhou and Shenzhen. A day before the iPhone 5's release last week, SACOM published a report, called "New iPhones, old abuses," that found that "[/news/watchdog-group-once-again-blasts-foxconn-apple-over-labor/ the old problems of labour rights abuses remain norms] at Foxconn" after interviewing 60 workers at Foxconn's Zhengzhou, China, plant. At some personal risk, Chan has traveled frequently from the relative safety of Hong Kong to mainland China to interview workers. [/news/digging-for-rare-earths-the-mines-where-iphones-are-born/ From rocks to recycling: The life of an iPhone] Tomorrow: We look at the environmental concerns raised by mining for the raw materials of the iPhone and what happens to iPhones when people get rid of them. Those discussions have led Chan to report on excessive overtime for workers, required hours that violate Chinese labor laws. She's documented unpaid overtime work, as well as compulsory meetings where managers berate employees about about low productivity, the high rates of product defects, and disciplinary problems. And [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] she's written about [ unsafe conditions in Foxconn] metal-working and parts-processing workshops, where workers handled chemicals unknown to them with little in the way of protection. "Most of the workers feel hopeless when you ask them about work pressures," Chan told me. "They'll say, 'Everywhere, it's the same.'" For Chan, that's not good enough. "The profit margins of Apple keep rising," she said. "Apple has the capacity to increase" the amount they pay Foxconn to produce iPhones. Apple declined to address a question about whether it has the ability to increase the pay of the workers at the companies it's hired to assemble iPhones. The company did say, though, that an audit conducted by the Fair Labor [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Association, a monitoring group Apple contracted to inspect Foxconn's factories is already paying dividends. "We asked the FLA to conduct a special audit of Foxconn factories earlier this year, and we are proud of the progress we are making together," the company said in a statement. "As part of the plan we developed in March, Foxconn has met every short-term goal including better ergonomics and more health and safety training. It's not an easy issue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof argues [ sweatshops are often a step up] from the poverty and squalor endemic to the developing world. He wrote in 2009 that "sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause, and banning them closes off one route out of poverty." And as offensive as some of the conditions in Foxconn's factory are to people in the West, they're clearly a notch or five above some of the more notorious Asian sweatshops. See also: [/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-foxconns-iphone-factories/ Read what Foxconn workers have to say about making iPhones] Media reports of the conditions at Foxconn plants led Apple, in February, to [/news/apple-launches-fair-labor-inspections-of-foxconn/ hire the Fair Labor Association], a monitoring group, to inspect the contractor's factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu. Cook called the audit "unprecedented" and noted that the FLA would interview thousands of employees about their working and living conditions, and inspect the workplace itself. Few journalists have been inside Foxconn's factories. Shortly after a [ New York Times investigation] of the manufacturing of Apple products in China last January, [ ABC's Nightline] and [ American Public Media's "Marketplace"] radio program toured Foxconn plants. The Chinese media has gotten a look as well, with the Web site [/news/a-glimpse-inside-foxconns-iphone-plant/ iFeng visiting the Zhangzhou plant] in May with Foxconn chief executive Terry Guo. And just before the Sept. 12 iPhone 5 launch, a Chinese reporter for the Shanghai Evening Post, wrote an article about [/news/undercover-reporter-details-work-at-foxconns-iphone-plant/ going undercover as a Foxconn worker] at its plant in Taiyuan for 10 days, assembling iPhones. The reports offered a glimpse at production lines. Rows upon rows of workers, often dressed in white static-proof jumpsuits, hats and gloves to keep dust away from the gleaming production line, worked at machines. They placed protective covers on iPhone screens, assembled iPad motherboards, and plugged batteries into housings. Each report showed a labor-intensive process that included plenty of machines but often many more people operating them. The undercover Chinese reporter described exhausting work as the company raced to get the iPhone 5 out the door. Workers at a Foxconn plant toil away at making Apple products. Apple The diminutive Chan is anything but a wallflower, and her outrage isn't limited to Foxconn's treatment of workers. A few days after I left Hong Kong, Chan traveled to Shaoyang, in the Hunan province in mainland China, to take photographs of Daxiang Hospital. That's the spot of Chinese dissident Li's suspicious death. Shortly after Chan arrived in Shaoyang, she was held by local police and [ detained for 10 hours], according to a South China Morning Post account. Authorities strip-searched her twice and confiscated leaflets Chan and a fellow activist planned to distribute, as well as a banner and a picture of Li. (Worried about the impact of her activism on SACOM, Chan told me recently that she has resigned her position at SACOM and plans to hand over her responsibilities with the organization in December.) Now playing: Watch this: Behind the silk curtain of iPhone manufacturing 4:35 When it comes to Apple, Chan points to the company's own pledge to hold itself and its suppliers up to the highest standards of social responsibility. In February 2007, Apple posted its [ "Final Assembly Supplier Audit Report" (PDF)] on the Web, looking into concerns that had been raised about poor working and living conditions at an iPod assembly plant in China. The report was largely positive, but found that some workers making iPods worked excessive overtime, and that some facilities didn't follow common safety conventions, such as properly storing chemicals or installing handrails on stairwells to code. But the company committed to doing better. "In cases where a supplier's efforts in this area do not meet our expectations, their contracts will be terminated," Apple wrote in its report. Over the years, Apple itself has found suppliers who have fallen short. In its [ 2008 report (PDF)], Apple's auditors interviewed 800 randomly selected employees and found three cases of employees being "disciplined in unacceptable ways." In one case a worker had to clean bathrooms, while the other two employees "had to write the mistake for which they were being disciplined multiple times or read it aloud to coworkers." Apple noted that it required those suppliers to end the practices.

Foreign-language Channels Now Available On Optus MeTV

2020-12-31T20:16:36Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Optus is beefing up the number of streaming television channels offered for its [/reviews/optus-metv-with-fetch-preview/ MeTV PVR (turned online media streamer)], with a choice of four foreign-language packs. From this week, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour trương gia giới] the company will offer streaming foreign language channels to its [/reviews/optus-metv-with-fetch-preview/ MeTV] customers. The channels are divided into four different packs, targeted at different audiences: Chinese in Mandarin; Indian in Hindi; Korean; and a combined group for Singapore and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour trương gia giới] Taiwan. The cost of these language packs is in addition to the base cost of [/reviews/optus-metv-with-fetch-preview/ MeTV], which is currently set at AU$9.95 for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] a minimum of 24 months. Although the MeTV box has a 1TB hard disk, these streaming channels cannot be [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recorded recorded] onto the device. Chinese Mandarin pack — AU$19.95 per month: Anhui TV Beijing TV CCTV 4 CCTV Entertainment CCTV News CCTV Opera China Movie Channel China Yellow River TV Chongqing TV Fujian Straits TV Guangxi TV International Hunan TV World JSBC International MTV China Phoenix Europe Phoenix Infonews Shanghai Dragon TV Sichuan TV SZTV-1 (Shenzen) Taishan TV TJTV TV (Tianjin) Xiamen Star Zhejiang TV. Indian Hindi pack — AU$19.95 per month: Colors Imagine Dil Se Masala TV MTV India NDTV NDTV 24x7 NDTV Good Times Sahara One Sanskar Star Gold Star Plus Zee Cinema Zee TV Zing. Korean pack — AU$14.95 per month: Arirang KBS World KMTV MBN Nat Geo Adventure Korea One (Sony Pictures) TVN. Singapore and Taiwan pack — AU$19.95 per month: 8 International (Singapore) Celestial Classic Movies (Singapore) MACTV (Macroview TV Taiwan) Xinya Azio (Taiwan) CCTV News (China) MTV China KMTV (Korea) One (Sony Pictures Korea). [#comments Comments] [/topics/tv-accessories/ TV Accessories] [ Notification on Notification off TV & Audio]