Chinese factories that assemble electronics for high-tech firms or their suppliers rely heavily on student interns from vocational schools for labor, reports Eva Dou for the Wall Street Journal. Some students claim they must work 12-hour shifts, six days a week, for three months to a year as a...
CHONGQING, China: On the outskirts of this southwestern Chinese hub lie the student factories.
Schools send thousands of teenagers here to put together electronic devices for some of the world's largest brands. Many students say they are given no...
About 10 percent of France’s population is Muslim. Yet Arabs, even those armed with education degrees and solid experience, struggle to find work in the country. Researchers have documented the discrimination by sending out resumes with identical experiences, from applicants with French and Arab...
PARIS: With a master's degree in business administration and two years of international work experience under his belt, Hamid Senni thought he had done enough to escape the stigma of his Arab roots. But only one company...
India is poised to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2024. Poverty is linked to fertility rates, and individual and government attention to population trends contributes to sustainable development. Both China and India have reduced fertility rates and poverty since 1950, when...
Demographic rise: India’s rising population will need sustenance from expanded IT and other skilled workers; the country must contend with a preponderance of male children
NEW YORK: By 2024, India will slip past China to become the most populous...
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pursued an “Act East Policy,” intended to strengthen Indo-Pacific strategic relationships, regional political stability, and economic exchanges with Myanmar and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Stronger ties require...
Talk or act? India's Act East policy faces resistance from insurgent groups even as Indian officials seek to enlist support of political leaders in the country’s northeast states
NEW HAVEN: The Narendra Modi–led Bharatiya Janata Party has been...
COVID-19’s wave of infections has numbed the global economy, stopping transport and face-to-face trade in Asia, Europe and the Americas. This pandemic, combined with OPEC and non-OPEC nations failing to reach agreement on oil-production limits, has created a massive oil glut. OPEC and a group of...
Russian roulette? Russia declined to cut oil production levels as proposed by Saudi Arabia; prices plummeted, but President Vladimir, shown inspecting a Rosneft facility, right, would not mind putting US shale oil drillers out of business (Souce:...
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...
In compliance with the U.N. resolutions governing the weapons inspections in Iraq since November, Chief Inspector Hans Blix reported today to the Security Council about the progress of his team. Mr. Blix both commended the Iraqi government for granting access to weapons sites and lamented the...
THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 27 JANUARY 2003:
AN UPDATE ON INSPECTION
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, Dr. Hans Blix
The governing Security Council resolutions
The...
Due to political and security concerns, Thailand has joined Burma, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia as a "medium risk" destination for Israeli and Western tourists. In recent years, the country has attracted more tourists and business people from the West and Israel than any other country in...
Thailand’s combination of many holidaymakers from the West and Israel and the porous borders it shares with unstable states have led the Kingdom’s risk level for foreigners to be raised from “low” to “medium”....
