Wfu Provost Emeritus Honored
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David Brown, provost emeritus at Wake Forest University, was honored by computer maker Lenovo at ThinkTank 2008, an educational conference held at the campus Tuesday.
Lenovo, which is based in China and has executive offices in Morrisville and a distribution center in Whitsett, gave Brown its Education Lifetime Achievement award. The company cited Brown’s decade-long pursuit [...]
51Job Gets The Job Done
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China’s 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS) is getting pretty good at this quarterly performance review. The company behind the job-listings website and the 51job Weekly employment classifieds publication, which serves nearly two dozen Chinese provinces, delivered another strong quarter last night.
Revenue climbed 18% to $33.7 million. Earnings, after backing out share-based compensation and a foreign exchange hit, [...]
Brohm Helps Kick Off Financial Football Education Program
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Central High School hosted the official launch party today of the Financial Football game, an interactive video game created by Visa that tests students financial knowledge.
Attending the party was Brain Brohm, the former University of Louisville quarterback and Green Bay Packers draftee, and Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach.
The game will be distributed to every high school [...]
Obama, Clinton Stress Economic Issues Campaigning in Indiana
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- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Indiana, put their focus on the economic concerns of job losses and the rising cost of health-care Education Law, education and gasoline as they tried to appeal to middle-class voters.
“I looked around the country and in too many communities what I saw were people who had been [...]
Brain drain and talent mismatch hold Taiwan back
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - When Bernard Liu was looking for people to join his team of equity researchers at JPMorgan in Taiwan last year, he found a labor market lacking people qualified to work in the global financial services sector.
In the end, it took him a whole year to fill the three posts.
“It’s typically a much [...]
Brain drain talent mismatch hold Taiwan back
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - When Bernard Liu was looking for people to join his team of equity researchers at JPMorgan in Taiwan last year, he found a labor market rich in engineers but lacking in people qualified for the service sector.
In the end, it took him a whole year to fill the three posts.
“It’s typically a [...]
Jackie Chan honors late parents in Australia
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Hong Kong-born action film star Jackie Chan paid tribute to his late parents and his Australian roots on Sunday by funding a new science education centre at the country’s top cancer research institution.
Chan and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened the Jackie Chan Science Centre, at the Australian National University, paid for [...]
China scholars vow patriotism drive for Tibet
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Mass arrests in Tibet; Bush urges China to talk
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have launched mass arrests of Tibetans in Lhasa for interrogation about the fiercest anti-Chinese uprising for decades, a Beijing-based source told Reuters on Wednesday.
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