According to a recent estimate, one in three Beijingers is a migrant worker and many are employed in service industries.
"People coming here to work in factories don't have the time or the money for shopping or the rollercoaster, " said a migrant worker in his 20s, surnamed Xiao, who works at the mall.
Turning to a positive news on the web, police and netizens have come to the rescue of a migrant worker in Shanghai after the family's hard-earned savings blew out of his pocket while he was riding a motorbike and were looted by unknown people.
It will carry on so long as the authorities do nothing (35 29 09) EXT RADIO MAST INT RADIO STATION CHAT SHOW Radio Canon ident (cleared) COMM: Lupita's disappearance has caused an outrage in Juarez because she was a local student, and not a migrant worker.
The detention of a migrant worker in Shanghai for allegedly stabbing his wife in the abdomen while arguing over where to raise their children and then throwing his one-year-old son on the floor headfirst while visiting his injured wife in hospital has attracted widespread calls for better psychological support for the floating population, says China Daily.
Turning to domestic news, the Beijing News says a woman, surnamed Ma, has been arrested for "spreading rumours" about a female migrant worker from Anhui province, surnamed Ms Yuan, who was found dead outside a wholesale market building in Beijing's Fengtai district last Friday.
Whenever I see a Uighur, Tibetan or migrant worker hailing a taxi, I just pretend I didn't see them.
Dory was assigned to work on a waste-management project in a Dominican migrant farm worker community.
Xie Shuying, an activist at the Migrant Worker Center, a Shenzhen-based group that helps educate workers on their rights, said the group has been harassed by the local government for the past year.
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On July 12, 2008, a group of white high school students, out on the prowl after a night of drinking, encountered one of their female classmates in the company of Luis Ramirez, a 25-year-old migrant worker from Mexico.
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Those former migrant worker rooms, which have a darker palette and a much more mod design, are called Heritage Suites and are twice the size of the Heritage Deluxe rooms.
It follows the story of Margaret Humphreys, the Nottingham social worker who first became aware of the problem when a child migrant contacted her from Sydney in the hope of retracing her British parents.
"We're not seeing a dramatic escalation in wages so I discount the worker shortage a bit, " said Rob Williams, director of the Florida Migrant Farmworker Justice Project.
Anis Hidayah, executive director of the migrant worker advocacy agency Migrant Care, told CNN that she was pleased with the government's decision to stop sending workers to Saudi Arabia but expressed a need for serious action beyond the creation of task forces given the responsibility of monitoring migrant worker protection overseas.
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