(1997 est. pop. 31.4 million). The northern China province of Shanxi borders on Shaanxi Province on the west, Nei Monggol Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia) on the north, Hebei Province on the east, and Henan Province on the south. Shanxi covers an...

Shanxi (help·info) (Chinese: 山西; pinyin: Shānxī; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province in the northern part of the People's Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin (晋 pinyin jìn), after the...

Authorities in northern China have arrested five people accused of starving and beating workers at a brick kiln to keep them enslaved, state media reported Monday.The suspects were arrested for "illegally holding and deliberately injuring laborers ... and forcing them to do highly intensive manual...

China has punished dozens of low-level officials for allowing brick kilns to operate using slave labor, but cleared higher-ranking officials of wrongdoing and dismissed allegations of corruption, a party discipline committee member said Monday.The Communist Party disciplined 95 officials at the county level or lower...

China is still freeing people _ including children _ forced to work as slaves in illegal brick factories, two months after the scandal involving the brick yards was exposed, officials said Monday.The scandal erupted in early June after Chinese media reported that children as young...

China is still freeing people _ including children _ forced to work as slaves in illegal brick factories, two months after the scandal involving the brick yards was exposed, officials said Monday.The scandal erupted in early June after Chinese media reported that children as young...