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Tutu Adorable! Dressed Down Victoria Beckham Lets Harper Steal The Style Spotlight


Posted on Apr 26, 2012 @ 12:30PM - 3 comments

By Leah Ornstein - Radar Features Editor

Victoria Beckham usually makes sure that she is the glammest girl in the room, but apparently she doesn’t mind being overshadowed by her baby girl!

The former Spice Girl, who usually gets dressed to the nines for a day of traveling, was casually clad as she carried her adorable baby girl, Harper Seven, through the Hong Kong airport on Thursday, letting her first daughter dressed up like a ballerina to steal the style spotlight – and RadarOnline.com has the photos.

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Chinese Teen Sells Kidney For iPad And iPhone


Posted on Apr 08, 2012 @ 12:00PM - 1 comment

By Radar Staff

Some people will do anything to get the latest gadget. In China a teenage boy went to the extreme and sold one of his kidneys so he could buy an iPad and an iPhone.

The 17-year-old's parents became suspicious when he came home with the costly gadgets, AP reports. Asked how he could afford them, he confessed he'd sold one of his kidneys for $3,500 so he could buy them.

Five people have since been arrested for helping him to illegally sell the kidney. One of the defendants allegedly received $35,000 after looking for organ donors online and allegedly arranging the deal. He gave the teen $3,500 as his cut of the deal.

Some people will do anything to get the latest gadget. In China a teenage boy went to the extreme and sold one of his kidneys so he could buy an iPad and an iPhone.

The 17-year-old's parents became suspicious when he came home with the costly gadgets, AP reports. Asked how he could afford them, he confessed he'd sold one of his kidneys for $3,500 so he could buy them.

 

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Jeremy Lin Chinese Racial Slur Causes Outrage, ‘It’s As Bad As The N Word’


Posted on Feb 21, 2012 @ 06:00PM - 4 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin has taken the sports world by storm, but sadly a racial slur made by an ESPN writer has made almost as extreme an impact for all the wrong reasons, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Taiwanese-Americans are outraged that the highly offensive comment even made the airwaves.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the phrase a “chink in the armor” was used to describe the 6’3” American-born NBA player, born of Taiwanese parents. The writer who penned the slur was fired, ESPN announced on Sunday, and anchor Max Bretos who said the phrase was suspended for 30 days.

New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin has taken the sports world by storm, but sadly a racial slur made by an ESPN writer has made almost as extreme an impact for all the wrong reasons, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Taiwanese-Americans are outraged that the highly offensive comment even made the airwaves.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the phrase a “chink in the armor” was used to describe the 6’3” American-born NBA player, born of Taiwanese parents.

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Chinese Octo-Mom Causes Stir In One-Child Limit Country


Posted on Dec 30, 2011 @ 12:30PM - 8 comments

By Amber Goodhand - Radar Reporter

Nadya Suleman, you are not the only Octo-Mom in the world anymore!

A couple in China spent almost one million yuan ($160,000 USD) to illegally have two surrogate mothers carry three girls and three boys for them, while the biological mother carried two of the children herself.

Nadya Suleman, you are not the only Octo-Mom in the world anymore!

A couple in China spent almost one million yuan ($160,000 USD) to illegally have two surrogate mothers carry three girls and three boys for them, while the biological mother carried two of the children herself.

Problem is, China is a country that typically limits parents to one child per couple and using surrogate mothers is a direct violation of Chinese law.

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Super Cute Baby Panda All Smiles As He Plays With Christmas Gifts


Posted on Dec 29, 2011 @ 03:00PM - 2 comments

By Radar Staff

Say cheese!

We've got these shots of an adorable baby panda, taken Wednesday at Ya'an Bifengxia Base of China, the country's Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.

In these shots, the black-and-white bear appears to be a natural in front of the cameras, mugging it up so cute, we nearly mistook it for a stuffed animal!

Say cheese!

We've got these shots of an adorable baby panda, taken Wednesday at Ya'an Bifengxia Base of China, the country's Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.

In these shots, the black-and-white bear appears to be a natural in front of the cameras, mugging it up so cute, we nearly mistook it for a stuffed animal!

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Kathie Lee Gifford Called Kris Jenner To Discuss Kardashian Sweatshop Scandal


Posted on Dec 29, 2011 @ 09:00AM - 10 comments

By Jen Heger - Radar Legal Editor

Kathie Lee Gifford, who endured a child sweatshop scandal over her clothing line at Wal-Mart in the 90s, called her very good friend, Kris Jenner, after allegations surfaced that several of the Kardashians’ products are produced in Chinese factories in horrific conditions, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

As RadarOnline.com and Star magazine previously reported, the Kardashian family is accused of endorsing and selling fashion products manufactured in foreign sweatshops, where workers, some as young as sixteen years old, are abused and virtually imprisoned.

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A prestigious human-rights watchdog organization has launched an investigation into America’s top TV family, with officials imploring the Kardashians not to profit from what amounts to “slave labor.”

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Human Rights Group Slams Kardashians In Sweatshop Scandal


Posted on Dec 24, 2011 @ 02:00PM - 25 comments

By Radar Staff

The Kardashians have reacted angrily since RadarOnline.com and Star magazine first broke the story about some of their fashion lines being manufactured in Chinese sweatshops, and they're not going to be any happier with a scathing statement issued late Friday by the prestigious Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

The international human rights organization is slamming the Kardashian women for manufacturing some of their lines in China where wages and working conditions are known to be deplorable.

When the story initially broke, the Kardashians put out a statement that they were "going to investigate" the allegations, and then hours later, another one claiming they HAD investigated and everything was just fine.

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But the backlash continued, which led to a report on a non-credible website, quoting an anonymous source as saying they were going to sue the human rights investigator! Even that bully tactic failed to stop the backlash, though.

The Kardashians continued to deny the allegations but without offering any proof they knew what was going on in their own factories, despite documented reports that Bebe, a product line they endorsed and profited from, treated workers as virtual slaves. In fact, the organization, China Labor Watch, specifically criticized the Kardashians in its report on Bebe.

What's more RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the Kardashians have never even been to their own factories! Not even the ones that manufacture clothes for Bebe.

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In the hope of bringing the Kardashians around to the idea of abandoning the Chinese sweatshop trade, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, is imploring the family to become educated as to working conditions in China, and perhaps even move their manufacturing to the U.S.

Following is the statement by Charles Kernaghan, Director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights:

China is not like the United States. In China there are no human rights, no religious freedom, no worker or women's rights, no freedom of speech and certainly no political freedoms. China is a totalitarian state.

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When celebrities like Kim Kardashian decide to source their production in China, they must realize that they are starting out on a very low rung, perhaps at the bottom, when it comes to respect for fundamental, internationally agreed upon human and labor rights.

We would like to ask Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities: Why is it that they hide their factories in China? Why is it that they refuse to provide the American people with the names and addresses of their supplier factories? What are they afraid of?

When it comes to their profits, Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities demand all sorts of enforceable laws -- intellectual property and copyright laws, backed up by sanctions -- to protect their trade marked goods. If someone makes a knock-off of a Kardashian garment, that person will be tracked down, prosecuted and do real jail time. However, when it comes to legal worker rights protections in China, there are none. What Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities offer the workers are voluntary corporate codes of conduct, which never work. Corporate codes of conduct are a public relations smoke screen to pretend that workers have rights. The reality is that Ms. Kardashian's garments, purses and other products are being protected, but not the human beings in China who made them.

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To give a concrete example, just a few days ago we received a report on the Jet Fair Factory in Guangdong Province in China. [Workers] said they were trapped in a hell-hole. The workers were housed 12 to a room in filthy dorms, which were infested with rats and bed bugs. The workers were so tortured by the bed bug bites that they were unable to sleep at night. During the peak season, they worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Summer temperatures reached 104 degrees, leaving the workers drenched in their own sweat. Workers were beaten and often prohibited from taking bathroom breaks. The workers described the factory food "fit for swine feed." They earned a take-home wage of 92 cents an hour and approximately $32 a week.

Take a look at photographs smuggled out of [another] factory in China. They show exhausted young teenaged workers slumped over their assembly line during their 10-minute break. (By the way, Forbes Magazine credits the Institute and other nonprofit organizations for doing more to promote respect for workers rights in China, more than all U.S. corporations put together).

Isn't it odd that year after year the American people spend nearly $100 billion on clothing, shoes, accessories, sporting goods, electronic and other goods made in China--and yet we have never, not even once, had the opportunity to meet with a worker from China? This is not by chance. If a Chinese worker dared to speak the truth, we would never see that person again.
If Ms. Kardashian has found a way to overcome the iron-fisted repression under which the Chinese workers are forced to toil, then that would be huge news and worthy of tremendous applause. But unfortunately, based on our concrete experiences investigating factories in China and elsewhere, the chances are about one in a million that Ms. Kardashian has found a way to push back against the Chinese authorities and guarantee that her employees will be afforded their most basic, internationally recognized workers' rights.

It is sad that such well know celebrities like Ms. Kardashian and others, who have both fortune and power, continue to jump head first into the race to the bottom in the global sweatshop economy by rushing to source their production to China.

Wouldn't it be amazing if Ms. Kardashian stood up and said she would keep her production in the United States? God knows we need the jobs. This would be a shot heard around the world. Yes, by doing so a celebrity might take a 25-cent per garment cut in her profit margin, but she would still earn a lot of money. Such a celebrity would be an incredible role model. Imagine products made under humane conditions. This is something the American people would applaud!

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Congressman Slams Kardashians: ‘They Don’t Give A Damn About Americans’


Posted on Dec 22, 2011 @ 04:00AM - 45 comments

By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter

The Kardashian family’s multi-million dollar empire is under investigation by human rights organizations for producing their high end goods in Chinese factories with sweatshop conditions, but a United States Congressman has slammed them for another reason, claiming: “They don’t give a damn about the American people.”

The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.

“It is very sad that anybody who is already making millions of dollars thinks they have to go to China to have work done in substandard labor conditions where people are paid a pittance and have no right to organize a union,” California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher exclusively told RadarOnline.com.

“By going to China in order to make a $65 million profit instead of a $10 million profit you are effectively thumbing your nose at the American people,” Rohrabacher said. “They don’t give a damn about the American people.”

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Kardashian Products Made In Sweatshops With Child Labor


Posted on Dec 21, 2011 @ 09:00AM - 32 comments

By Radar Staff

In a stunning world exclusive exposé Star magazine is reporting that the Kardashian family are endorsing and selling fashion products manufactured in foreign sweatshops, where workers, some as young as sixteen years old, are abused and virtually imprisoned.

In a stunning world exclusive exposé Star magazine is reporting that the Kardashian family are endorsing and selling fashion products manufactured in foreign sweatshops, where workers, some as young as sixteen years old, are abused and virtually imprisoned.

 

The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.

A prestigious human-rights watchdog organization has launched an investigation into America’s top TV family, with officials imploring the Kardashians not to profit from what amounts to “slave labor.”

“The Kardashians are in bed with some pretty bad people,” Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, tells Star.  “Not only are celebrities like the Kardashians taking advantage of these workers, they are holding hands with a government that spits on democracy and women’s rights.”

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American Manufacturing ‘Disappointed’ Kardashians Don't Use U.S. Factories


Posted on Dec 21, 2011 @ 07:00AM - 1 comment

By Jen Heger - Radar Legal Editor

A representative from American Manufacturing is disappointed that the Kardashian clan has their clothing and shoe collections produced in China, and not the United States.

A representative from American Manufacturing is disappointed that the Kardashian clan has their clothing and shoe collections produced in China, and not the United States.

The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, a prestigious human-rights watchdog organization has launched an investigation into America’s top TV family, with officials imploring the Kardashians not to profit from what amounts to “slave labor.”

“The Kardashians are in bed with some pretty bad people,” Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, tells Star.  “Not only are celebrities like the Kardashians taking advantage of these workers, they are holding hands with a government that spits on democracy and women’s rights.”

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