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 [...]
Malaysia PM wont resign despite poll debacle
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s premier said on Sunday he has no plan to step down after leading his ruling coalition to its worst election result in decades, despite calls by his influential predecessor for him to quit.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s multi-racial National Front (Barisan Nasional) coalition won just a simple majority in parliament, [...]
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.
President George W. Bush urged Chinese President Hu Jintao by phone to open dialogue with the exiled Dalai Lama. Hu said China would not talk to the [...]
Ditching socialist roots kibbutz makes a comeback
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KIBBUTZ KRAMIM, Israel (Reuters) - With its socialist doctrine of shared possessions — down to your underwear — and love of the land, the kibbutz for years symbolized Israel’s earthy Zionist ideals.
But Israelis abandoned the collective farms in droves as socialism fell from favor in the 1980s, urban centers flourished and many kibbutzim sank into [...]
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.
President George W. Bush urged Chinese President Hu Jintao by phone to open dialogue with the exiled Dalai Lama. Hu said China would not talk to the [...]
Global poverty to halve by 2015 Africa seen lagging
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa will fall far short of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
A new report by the global institutions also warned that urgent action was needed to tackle climate change, which threatens [...]
Principal being fired over teen sex charges
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At the meeting in Richmond, upset parents peppered school officials with questions about how thorough the background check on Markofski had been and whether principals would be tested for drugs in the future.
They also questioned why the district did not know about his arrest until being called by Milwaukee media.
School Board President Patty [...]
FIONA McCADE The hitman and her pension
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For most people, the word retirement conjures up appealing images of slippers
warming by the fire, reduced price admission to many famous attractions, and
the inalienable right to drive around unbelievably slowly on Sundays wearing
a flat, cloth cap.
But if you’re among the 1m Scots due to retire over the next 10 years, be
afraid. Be very afraid, because [...]
The wealth divide expands
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Higher education is becoming a tale of two sectors as the gap between rich and
poor widens in a time of plenty, Times Higher Education (April 3)
reports this week.
And the division between elite Russell Group universities and the rest is
likely to increase further as the richer borrow more to improve staff and
student facilities.
Figures extracted by the [...]
Notebook
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More support for Estelle Morris’s complaint, reported in this column last week, that the government has to be seen to be doing something, whether or not it works. Among the 180 people at the recent Anti Academies Alliance conference, Notebook spotted the former health secretary, and now anti-academy campaigner in his Camden constituency, Frank Dobson, [...]
