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www.reuters.com — Wintek , owner of the factory in east China's Suzhou industrial park, said it has reserved 10 million yuan for compensation to the workers affected by the chemical hexyl hydride, and will pay more if the illness continues.
But two workers contacted by Reuters on Friday said that the 80,000 yuan offered by the company to each worker so far was not sufficient.

www.cityweekend.com.cn — Good news for Beijingers: the minimum monthly wage is going to be increased to CNY 960, instead of the present-day CNY 800.

www.askmen.com — A senior Chinese public health official says the tenfold growth in the number of syphilis cases over the past decade in China has been driven by the country's rapid economic growth. XiangSheng Chen says prostitution, worker migration from the countryside to cities, and poor health care systems means cases are now increasing 30 percent a year.

www.google.com — Prostitutes are considered more trustworthy in China than government officials and scientists, a recent survey of more than 3,000 respondents showed. 7.9 percent of respondents considered sex workers trustworthy, putting them in third place after farmers and religious workers.

jennyzhu.com — The two largest job seeking groups in China are university graduates and migrant workers. When interviewed, some graduates have lowered their salary expectation to around 1500 RMB a month which is what the most experienced migrant workers are now demanding, an increase over previous average migrant wages.