A criminal complaint filed this week against a wealthy New York woman alleges that she kept an undocumented immigrant as a house worker for years, paying her just 85 cents an hour for nearly constant labor, and making her sleep in a walk-in closet. Read more:
HONG KONG — Whenever her Chinese employer is displeased with her work, a Filipina working in one of the high-rise apartments here is ordered to sit in a corner all day long, her back pressed hard against the cold steel frame of the dining table. Then comes the battery of […]
by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch Foreign executives in Switzerland are being urged to learn a national language to help them integrate. For some expatriates, it’s an unrealistic expectation. It’s not the first time language has been raised in the same breath as integration in Switzerland, but it’s rare for the comment […]
Courtesy: NY Times January 24, 2012 Average Is Over By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: […]
Courtesy: NY Times By PAUL KRUGMAN In 2011, as in 2010, America was in a technical recovery but continued to suffer from disastrously high unemployment. And through most of 2011, as in 2010, almost all the conversation in Washington was about something else: the allegedly urgent issue of reducing the […]
LABOR will talk to Nauru about reopening an asylum seeker processing centre there if the coalition agrees to pass the government’s amendment to the Migration Act without changes. Immigration Minister […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JAKARTA: Veteran Indonesian journalist Parni Hadi urged Muslim journalists to apply principles set out by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in their work to enhance their credibility. Addressing the International Islamic Media Conference in Jakarta on Wednesday, the former chief of Antara […]
Four technocrats with varied experience set up start-up firm to focus on research and development of bio-absorbable stents. Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad students began working on a bio-absorbable drug eluting stent (called 3V Avatar) that becomes part of patient’s body in just 18 months. “Avatar” not only […]
BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) — An estimated 1.3 million young Chinese will compete for 18,000 civil servant posts in central government departments and their local branches on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday afternoon, exams of extra skills will be held for applicants competing for posts with foreign language requirements and […]