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GUANGZHOU, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Police in south China's Guangdong Province have detained four suspects and launched a pursuit for three others who were allegedly involved in attacking a group of unpaid migrant workers, killing one of them, earlier this month.
After posting an online wanted notice for the three fugitives, police in Yingde City confirmed on Thursday that the alleged assailants were all from the No. 15 Bureau of the China Railway Construction Corp., contractor of the Guangzhou-Lechang Expressway Construction Project. The contractor had employed the migrant workers since September 2013.
The man who was killed has been identified as Zhao Zhiming, who was among the 21 migrant workers attacked by dozens of assailants, who wielded knives and iron bars, on a street about 10 minutes' walk from the construction project office, on March 6.
Police investigation has found that the workers were dismissed by the employer without payment after the Spring Festival holiday in February. They were refused payment again at the construction site office on March 6, and a short while later they were attacked by assailants who drove three vehicles to chase them down the road.
Zhao Xinbiao, uncle of the dead man, said the contractor owed his nephew 8,000 yuan (1,287 U.S. dollars) in salary. The group of migrant workers together claimed 140,000 yuan in unpaid salary.
Zhao said the workers had nothing personal against Li Yukun, the man alleged to have led the attack against the unarmed workers.
Detectives with the Yingde Bureau of Public Security confirmed that Li, a resident of Yingde City, was the material contractor for the construction project.
A deputy manager of the project, Zhao Ping, denied that the project office was involved in inciting Li and others to attack the workers. But he admitted the office was responsible for ""improper management"" of the construction project.
Delayed salary and labor abuse have been frequent occurrences in construction sites of big infrastructure projects contracted by state-owned firms like China Railway Construction Corp.
There have been dozens of reports of beatings targeting migrant workers claiming unpaid salaries nationwide in the past few years. All the cases implicated the project contractors in hiring hatchet men to use violence with the aim of intimidating the workers to give up their salaries.
Zhao Yongqi, a labor union official with the No. 15 Bureau of the China Railway Construction Corp., said although the company did not have ""direct liability"" for the beating, it is planning to provide 180,000 yuan as a ""one-off compensation payment"" to Zhao Zhiming's family.
A Yingde City government official, who declined to be named, said in the case of labor disputes involving big state-owed firms, local authorities often refrain from getting involved, as chief executives of these firms often have higher ranks than local officials.
Very often, workers' families are offered money to keep quiet.
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by Kimathi Kamau
NAIROBI, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Long-serving Athletics Kenya (AK) boss, Isaiah Kiplagat is still optimistic of winning one of the four seats for world athletic governing body IAAF vice-presidency despite failing to broker a deal to field one African candidate.
The IAAF confirmed Friday the list of candidates that will vie for various positions at the helm of the world body. Kiplagat and fellow African and president of Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) Hamad Kalkaba Malboum from Cameroon, were listed among seven contestants for the vice-presidency.
Sitting vice-president and world pole vault record holder Sergey Bubka from Ukraine, who is also gunning for the presidency against retired British middle distance legend Sebastian Coe, is among the list. The other candidates are Abby Hoffman (Canada), Dahlan Al Hamad (Qatar), Alberto Juantorena Danger (Cuba) and Bernard Amsalem (France).
Last month, the veteran Kenyan supremo, who has been in administration for four decades and leading AK for the last 22 years, announced he asked Kalkaba to withdraw to bolster Africa's chances of nailing one of the four seats.
"Kalkaba declined to step down for me, but that is not a problem. We can each vie for the post but only one African will likely get a seat. There are four positions and there is the likelihood of Abby stepping down and Bubka is running for the presidency," said Kiplagat.
Kiplagat is also in contention to retain his seat as a member of the IAAF Council he has held for over 15 years.
Kiplagat, who took a three-month sabbatical from AK at the beginning of the month to focus on his bid for the IAAF vice- presidency, added he would step up his campaigns by selling his four point manifesto he launched on May 3.
He is hinging his campaigns on grassroots development, new formats and events, athlete welfare and education and a drug free sport having indicated he would step down from the leadership of the local federation if elected to the vice-presidency.
AK vice-president in-charge of Competition and Administration David Okeyo will defend the chairmanship of the IAAF Cross Country Committee against Saad Al-Hiyasat of Jordan and Carlos Cardoso of Portugal.
Okeyo is also in the race for one of the eight member seats in the committee he heads at the world governing body that has attracted 26 contestants.
Other Kenyans who were confirmed candidates include former New York and Boston marathon champion, Ibrahim Hussein, who heads the IAAF Regional Development Centre in Nairobi, and AK vice-president, Wome''s Affairs Fatma Abdallah Ali.
Joseph Ochieng, Member of IAAF Race Walking Committee, rounds of the list from the country that has an established tradition in long distance running excellence.
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