Labour Contract Law is to adjust the relationships between employers and workers. Compared with the old Labour Law, there are new rules in the new one.

My nephew says in another letter to me last year, "because of old age, grandma is no longer in good health, but she still does manual Labour, and is particularly fond of spinning cotton into yarn..."

Well before a volcano wreaked havoc with Europe's air transport, travellers across the continent were coping with the effects of labour disputes that had an old-fashioned tinge.