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Eight jailed in China for failing to pay workers
Eight managers of a company in southern China, including two from Hong Kong, have been jailed on charges that they failed to pay workers and suppliers, a news report said Saturday. The case, reportedly the first of its kind in China, comes amid a government campaign to make Chinese employers disburse billions of dollars (euros) in back pay owed to workers. Managers of the company in the southern city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, were sentenced Thursday to up to a month in jail on charges of failing to pay more than 7 million yuan (US$850,000; euro700,000) to 1,200 workers, and 41 million yuan (US$5 million; euro4 million) to at least 350 suppliers, the China Daily newspaper said.