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Two Chinese reporters who investigated working conditions at Apple's iPod factories are being sued for $3.8 million, but rather than silencing the press, the case is generating more ink than ever.

An expose of how we obtain cheap goods from Asia. A documentary of the exploitation of the workers by factory owners and western buyers. How the factories get around inspections which are supposed to ensure conditions improve for workers. How factory workers live - and some die.

ESWN has the translation of a Chinese blog report on the 'most awesome scavengers in history'. In the Guangdong city of Foshan, migrant workers are suspected of being hired by a development company to assist in 'relocation' of the residents that don't wish to move.

Though a pretty big claim, when a group of migrant workers can bring an apartment to its bare shell in under 30 minutes, all while the resident is watching hopelessly, the title of 'most awesome scavengers' might be quite fitting.

The first part in an introductory report on the state of the Chinese independent music industry, written from a western industry perspective.

Danwei.org's annual listing of the best Chinese and English blogs about China is out - and we're more than just a little bit proud that Hao Hao Report made the list!

It started as a pay dispute at a southern Chinese toy factory. But it quickly turned into a riot as laid-off workers tapped into a network of friends and unemployed laborers who flipped over a police car, stormed into the plant and smashed office computers.

Police have rescued 31 people forced to work for a year as slaves - given only bread and water and no pay - at a brickworks run by the son of a local Communist Party official, China's state media reported today.

Eight of the workers were so traumatised that all they could remember was their names, the Beijing News said, citing a report in the Shanxi Evening Post.

One labourer was beaten to death with a hammer for not working hard enough, before police raided the factory to set the others free, the newspaper said.

Chinese police have detained 10 people in connection with the collapse of an underground railway tunnel being built for next year's Olympic Games in Beijing.

Six workers were reported to have been killed when the tunnel caved in last Wednesday.

State media has reported that the construction firm waited at least eight hours before reporting the accident to the authorities.

It is claimed that the company mounted an elaborate cover-up and tried to rescue the trapped workers on its own.

Bunnie Huang, best known for hacking the Xbox, checks out some factories for possible use in his new start-up. Here are some reports about what he found. Videos included.