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on July 16, 2010
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Singapore will likely be needing an influx of at least 1000,000 foreign workers for the remainder of this year, fuelled by the country's rec...
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on June 2, 2010
Canada went ahead and apologized to India for the language used by its officials against Indian security and intelligence establishments. This happened after retaliatory measures were threatened by In...
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on May 25, 2010
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has tightened its immigration laws to prevent illegal immigrants. The provisions have been made under the Immigration (Amendment) Ordinance which cam...
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on May 4, 2010
A revision in South Korea immigration law has allowed dual citizenship for its citizens. This new law is aimed to prevent brain drain and invite talented foreigners. The new dual citizenship law is ap...
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on February 5, 2010
This is what Koreans feel. Korean parliamentary think tanks are of the opinion that policymakers of the country should give eye and ear to immigration reforms when preparing a strategy to curb falling...
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on December 31, 2009
The China Law Blog took a look last week at the basics of obtaining a visa to China. It's some useful background...China visa information will always be at least somewhat dependent on the count...
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on December 27, 2009
A number of news sources (AFP, Reuters, Asia News Network, Earth Times) have been covering the tense situation in Thailand where about 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees look destined (doomed?) to be retu...
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on November 26, 2009
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The blog 2point6billion is reporting that India's visa rules are forcing engineers from China to return home and replace their business visas with work visas. The process is causing ...
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on October 26, 2009
Vinod Wadhwa had a insightful and informative piece in TechCrunch recently on what he called reverse brain drain. Large numbers of Chinese and Indians in the tech sector are going home - to Shanghai a...
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on October 3, 2009
2point6billion (a blog that covers issues that impact both India and China) is reporting on a "spat" between China and India over how China issues visas to residents of the Indian state of J...