Slavery exists in China

Fraggr · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:25

No, this isn't an exaggeration either.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6733045.stm

They were forced to stay in that building, and not paid, only given bread and water for a year.

NiccoLau · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:32

Goodness. I am speechless. I really feel for those workers.

Mat · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:32

Well at least they sent them back... home.

Serj · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:36

God thats awful. I'd be bricking it if anyone told me i was going to be a slave.

cymatty · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:39

Serj said:
God thats awful. I'd be bricking it if anyone told me i was going to be a slave.

Groans.

Moredhel · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:40

At least when the authorities found out they did something about it.

Unlike the rampant slavery that exists accross Africa that the authorities turn a blind eye to because it's a tradition out there.

PsiFox · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:42

Slavery exists in many other 3rd world and not so 3rd world countries.

Jaffa_Cake · 8 Jun 2007 at 13:43

PsiFox said:
Slavery exists in many other 3rd world and not so 3rd world countries.

3rd world countries are now officially known as LEDC's (Less Economically Developed Countries).. GCSE humanities rules

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PsiFox · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:39

Jaffa_Cake said:
3rd world countries are now officially known as LEDC's (Less Economically Developed Countries).. GCSE humanities rules .

Well I'm pre GCSE so My rules

Ross1234 · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:44

Jaffa_Cake said:
3rd world countries are now officially known as LEDC's (Less Economically Developed Countries).. GCSE humanities rules .

Your wrong its an ELDC not an LEDC so ha.

Angus-Higgins · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:50

Ross1234 said:
Your wrong its an ELDC not an LEDC so ha.

It is LEDC - Less Economically Developed Country.

Slavery exists in many places, and is truly shocking. Some places in Africa and India have particularly bad slavery.

Angus Higgins

Dogoid · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:53

Fraggr said:
They were forced to stay in that building, and not paid, only given bread and water for a year.

anyone who's overweight and cant be bothered to exercise , this would be a perfect holiday spot.

Ross1234 · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:53

Its an ELDC an Economically less developed country. i have my higher geography. Maybe your crappy english gcse's have it differently but its internationally recognised as ELDC. an EMDC being an economically more developed country. English schools always get it wrong, god you lot are taught electricity goes from positive to negative!

danza · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:54

Isn't this how iPods are manufactured?

Utterly disgraceful. Poor sods deserve all the compensatory measures they'll get and some. I hope the factory owner gets his cumuppence.

Angus-Higgins · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:56

Ross1234 said:
English schools always get it wrong

Wikipedia also gets it wrong then?

Angus Higgins

divine` · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:56

Ross1234 said:
Its an ELDC an Economically less developed country. i have my higher geography. Maybe your crappy english gcse's have it differently but its internationally recognised as ELDC. an EMDC being an economically more developed country. English schools always get it wrong, god you lot are taught electricity goes from positive to negative!

Well, I was taught LEDC and that's what people on wikipedia use, so i'm going to stick with that

Also, Google seems to agree LEDC > ELDC. In fact, ELDC seems to be more prominently used for East Lindsey District Council.

BBC also agrees it's LEDC

Efour · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:57

wiki is a load of crap too written by normal people or copied from previously published material.

Angus-Higgins · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:57

divine_madness said:
Well, I was taught LEDC and that's what people on wikipedia use, so i'm going to stick with that

It is also what GCSE Geography uses, and also the teachers who have Geography Degrees use.

Efour2 said:
wiki is a load of crap too written by normal people or copied from previously published material.

Yes, but you would expect there at least to be a page for ELDC that links to LEDC.

Angus Higgins

Ross1234 · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:58

be wrong if you want. Out of interest do you beleive electricity travels from positive to negative?

divine` · 8 Jun 2007 at 15:59

Ross1234 said:
be wrong if you want. Out of interest do you beleive electricity travels from positive to negative?

I think the fact that 95% of the rest of world seem to want to use LEDC, that you are probably the one who is wrong.