IBM is unmatched in taking advantage of the technology talent-pool in India and providing global services on a grand scale. While US and European workers have faced repeated layoffs over the past several years, the number of IBM’s Indian employees grows at a staggering rate. IBM’s growth in India...
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Migration continues to top political agendas, but a failure to understand the phenomenon will cause new problems. Fear of an “uncontrollable influx…. has fueled the rise of extreme nationalist parties,” explains Hein de Haas for Spiegel Online. The professor of sociology refutes myths of migration...
Protests sweep throughout the United States after a handcuffed man died in police custody in Minneapolis. Onlookers filmed and pleaded with police officers to stop, after one held his knee to the back of the man’s neck for more than eight minutes. Some extremists disrupt the peaceful protests, and...
Cultural traditions in one society can be crimes in another. Children raised with such traditions confront a dilemma as acceptance slowly transforms into questions and shame. Author Alex Tizon, now deceased, profiles a woman who had served his family without pay for more than 50 years. The...
Vancouver, a beautiful city with mild weather on the Pacific coast, is fast-growing technology hub in need of skilled workers. A US crackdown on immigration has made the job of recruiting skilled immigrant workers from Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley much easier. Companies like Apple,...
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Few Chinese wait for the latest American film to open in local theatres to see it on big screen. Thanks to the internet and computer technology, pirated films are readily available throughout China long before their scheduled premiers. Small, locally owned pirate stores have emerged in cities and...
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伴随着灾后重建，灾难带来了新开端和新视角。无论是誓言就地重建还是修复或异地再建，复兴日本的各方主体都将竭力追求安全和改善。本次上下两篇的耶鲁全球在线系列报道探讨了春季地震和海啸给日本政治、能源政策和经济造成的转型性的影响。《亚洲哨兵》的编辑约翰•伯瑟尔森在下篇中解释说，这次灾难已经促使日本制造业者在亚洲寻找新的场所，这能加速本来就已经因为劳动力成本太高、高昂的日元、严厉的环保管制和不断升高的能源成本而开始的海外转移趋势。日本的“技术发展在消费电子产品、光纤、光电子、汽车生产和其他许多优质技术方面居世界前列，其他许多国家都无法与之匹敌，”伯瑟尔森解释说，...
香港：为了尽快从3月11日开始的大地震、海啸和核电厂熔毁中恢复元气，最近几周，日本政府官员和许多中小企业主已经在亚洲呈扇形散开，为制造业寻找新场地。
但是，此举不仅是对灾难做出的简单反应，而且可能加速工业供应链的长期变化。现在被称为3-11事件的3月大地震造成大约25000人死亡和16万人离开家园，导致日本制造业暂时的中断，还可能对其产生长远的影响。制造业移居海外的加速将掏空日本工业基地。
制造业公司的聚集地东京大田区的政府官员上原真崎说，“他们不是破产了，他们还在经营，...
While Europe was lost in the superstition of the Middle Ages, science reigned in the Muslim world as thinkers strove to understand the workings of Allah. The Koran was at once a source of inspiration for studying natural phenomena and comprehending them. Thus, astronomy, math, and other sciences...
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