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, [...]
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 [...]
Parents scrambling for bilingual classes
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Here’s how it works: Instead of a set class time a few times a week, 14 native-English speakers and 14 native-Spanish speakers will begin kindergarten in the same class, and another 28 will start 1st grade. Part of the school day, they will use [...]
Kennedy Holds Hearing On College Affordability, Student Loan Availability
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KENNEDY HOLDS U.S. SENATE FIELD HEARING IN BOSTON ON COLLEGE ACCESS AND THE IMPACT OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH ON STUDENT LOAN AVAILABILITY
“ENSURING ACCESS TO COLLEGE IN A TURBULENT ECONOMY” AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, MA- Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, today chaired a [...]
Bank of Thailand Refrains From Rate Cut on Inflation (Update2)
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Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Thailands central bank refrained
from cutting its benchmark interest rate after a report showed
the economy grew at the fastest pace in seven quarters and
inflation accelerated to an 18-month high.
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Commentary Quality education will lead to an end of environmental fears
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By Calrence E Pilgrim
Certainly to many conservationists like myself, what has been considered a logical action, might indeed be one of the United Nations more formidable resolutions, which can lead to a fundamental change in the social dynamics of a world which at times, seem to be revolving in a wrong direction, creating havoc with [...]
U.K. Offers London as Base for China#39;s 200 Bln Fund (Update3)
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Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown
offered London as an overseas base for China Investment Corp.,
the nations $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, aiming to
encourage the worlds fastest-growing major economy to invest in
Britain.
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Lies damned lies and predictions
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You might call it 2020 vision - that special gift that enables some people to predict with impressive confidence what things are going to be like 12 years from now.The prime minister apparently has it, though it was when he was chancellor that it shone out. In his budget statement in March 2006, Gordon Brown [...]
Retrain as physics specialists and get #163;5000 teachers told
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Teachers who retrain to become maths, physics and chemistry specialists will get a “golden handshake” of %26#163;5,000 under new government plans announced today.The new %26#163;140m scheme is aimed at increasing the number of science and maths teachers, improving results at GCSE and getting more young people studying science, technology, engineering and maths - Stem - [...]
