The lingering effects of global recession contribute to high unemployment rates and immigration policies favoring temporary guest-worker arrangements over an eventual path toward citizenship. Canada has reduced emphasis on family reunification, treating parents and grandparents as tourists and...
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Fear of global brands is a powerful, universally recognized phenomenon. Just as powerful and less noticed is the consumer pushback against global brands and search for unique, local products, notes Bryant Simon, author and American Studies professor. “The spread of these branded symbols of...
A new day: India's CaféCoffee Day challenges Starbucks
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: Shakespeare’s birthplace is not immune from a common complaint. When Jim Hyssop saw a Starbucks open up several years ago in downtown Stratford-upon-Avon, near the McDonald’...
A sizable percentage of the adult workforce in the Philippines pursues overseas employment opportunities, creating a revenue stream that supplements the national economy. A lagging job market at home and the need for workers in certain industries and nations abroad contribute to the export of labor...
Trained to work overseas: President Rodrigo Duterte welcomes Filipino workers returning from a stint in Qatar, and thousands of trained nurses in the Philippines take their profession’s oath prior to entering practice
DAVAO CITY: Hailed for decades...
Amid reports on China’s ongoing battles with pollution, Tim Harford searches for patterns. “In the early 1990s, Princeton economists Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger coined the phrase “environmental Kuznets curve” to stand for the idea that as countries become richer, their emissions first rise but...
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Iran’s defiance over international demands that it stop nuclear research could galvanize Shiites to demand more power throughout Asia, leading to nuclear proliferation on the continent. With violence escalating between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, author Noah Feldman ponders how the competing sects...
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Maduro has presided over Venezuela's corrupt and mismanaged government since 2013, with violence, hunger and hyperinflation. Maduro refuses to engage in peaceful transfer of power. Venezuela, with ample oil supplies, should be among the world’s wealthiest nations. Yet 30 million citizens must...
Up until this month, Singaporean women living overseas could not pass citizenship rights onto their children born out-of-country – only men were given this privilege. Children of expatriate women were forced to apply for citizenship. Yet as more Singaporean men and women leave the country to work...
CHILDREN born to Singaporean women overseas from May 15, 2004, will now be able to obtain Singaporean citizenship by descent.
As it stands now, only Singaporean men can pass on their citizenship to their...
Even as the United States faces a multitude of challenges, both domestic and global, a New York Times opinion essay warns that leaders cannot afford to overlook trouble spots like Burma. All problems could look small indeed next to the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of the junta ruling...
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