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Taipei, Oct. 14 (CNA) Ten people have been indicted for their alleged involvement in a scheme in which foreign students were tricked into coming to Taiwan before being forced to work as cheap labor for local factories, according to the Taiwan Changhua District Prosecutors Office on Friday.
Taipei, Aug. 19 (CNA) Several Miaoli County officials were detained this week over their alleged involvement in a scheme in which foreign students were duped into coming to Taiwan and then forced to work as cheap labor for local factories.
Exploitation cases of foreign students at vocational and technical colleges have recently been in the news, including Sri Lankans studying at the University of Kang Ning in Taipei, Indonesians at Chienkuo Technology University in Changhua County, and Ugandans at Chung Chou University of Science and Technology (CCUST), also in Changhua. Over the past two decades, due to the nation’s low birthrate, many vocational and technical colleges have sought to bolster student numbers by recruiting from abroad. This trend reached its apogee when former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was in office a...
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) and civic groups on Wednesday called on the Ministry of Education (MOE) to take immediate action to prevent foreign students from being forced to work as cheap labor. An article published on Monday in The Reporter, a Taipei-based online news outlet, said that 16 Ugandan students enrolled at Chung Chou University of Science and Technology (CCUT) in Changhua County in 2019 worked as factory interns for long hours and low pay. The students could not refuse to work due to substantial tuition debts, the report said. The students had been prom...
Chung Chou University of Science and Technology forced Ugandan students to work as 'interns' in factories | 2022-01-13 18:25:00