Striking Taxi Drivers Sent To Labor Camps

Eight taxi drivers who took part in a strike in southern China have been sentenced to labor-camp terms, a report said Thursday.

The strike took place Jan. 15 in Zhuhai, a boomtown in one of the special economic zones that China has set up along its coast. Zhuhai is across the border from the Portuguese colony of Macao.

A police statement said the eight drivers were sentenced to labor camp terms ranging from 10 days to two years, the Portuguese news agency LUSA said in a report from Macao.

Chinese reports said 226 drivers took part in the strike; reports from Hong Kong put the number at around 1,000.