31.   Protests from U.S. anti-child labor activists and consumers helped motivate the garment industry to reach the deal.

32.   A brief scuffle erupted when company guards tried to prevent labor activists from entering the plant to join the rally.

33.   A Chinese labor activist was taken from his home and detained for organizing unemployed workers, a human rights group reported Sunday.

34.   A Chinese court had insufficient evidence in convicting and sentencing a labor rights activist to seven years in prison for fraud, a human rights group said Wednesday.

35.   A Chinese court on Tuesday mysteriously postponed the trial of two labor activists for the second day running, a human rights group said.

36.   A Chinese dissident living in exile in Hong Kong urged the international trade union movement Monday to pressure China into releasing detained labor activists.

37.   A human rights group accused authorities Tuesday of repression in the arrests of students and labor activists protesting to demand better pay.

38.   A labor rights activist, a dissident poet and young writer also have received long prison terms in recent weeks, also for subversion.

39.   About a dozen other foreign labor activists and some overseas diplomats also attended the aborted meeting.

40.   Accusing many existing unions of pro-government bias, however, labor activists have launched separate unions, immediately outlawed by the government.