‘Life is bad’: despair grips Vietnamese workers at Chinese tyre factory in Serbia

They are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money. They say their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer and that they are now stuck in a grim plainland in Serbia with no help from local authorities.These are the Vietnamese workers who are helping build the first Chinese car tyre factory in Europe. The Associated Press visited the construction site in the northern city of Zrenjanin where some 500 of the workers are living in harsh conditions as China’s…