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by gautam 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey on November 26, 2009
© BOMBMAN
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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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...
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by Greg Cruey on July 27, 2009
When illegal immigration gets mentioned in the press people usually assume the story is about Latin American immigration into the United States. But China has its own problem with illegal immigration,...
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by Greg Cruey on July 17, 2009
South Korea is home now to about 16,000 North Koreans - refugees from the North.Most have come since the mid-1990s, fleeing political repression and famine at home. Officials say about 3,000 more are ...
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by Greg Cruey on July 15, 2009
It's being called a "phased return home." Pakistanis displaced by fighting in the Swat Valley of Malakland Province are being allowed to slowly return to their homes. The biggest problem...
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by Greg Cruey on May 10, 2009
Foreigners who want a business visa to China in the next few months are evidently having a harder and harder time getting them. The China Law Blog has compared the situation to the politically inspire...
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by Greg Cruey on April 2, 2009
Tibet will reopen to tourists on April 5th, according to the Associated Press.
Tibet has been closed to foreign tourists for over a year now out of Chinese government concern over political unrest. ...
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by Greg Cruey on March 22, 2009
BusinessWeek looked recently at the growing anger in India over new rules for H-1B visas for companies taking stimulus money.It's protectionism, say Indian critics, that Congress has banned compan...
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by Greg Cruey on February 28, 2009
Several news sources have been following the Rohingya refugee problem in Southeast Asia. Now ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) looks to have found a partial solution to the problem - ...
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by Greg Cruey on February 5, 2009
Getting a visa for China can be a knotty problem. Paul Traynor describes it well:To begin, there are no regulations set in stone in any one place that details what kind of state the Chinese visa situa...
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by Greg Cruey on December 26, 2008
As the financial sector (and business in general) sheds jobs in America and Europe, more and more business school graduates are looking for job opportunities in the Middle East - especially in the Uni...
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by Greg Cruey on November 28, 2008
Reuters reported back on Monday that the Indonesian province of Papua was considering a new law that "requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infe...
Read more of RFID Tags for HIV Patients? One Indonesian State is Talking About It...
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by Matthew Schulz on October 2, 2007
If you are worried about the lose of jobs to global outsourcing, you may be somewhat reassured to learn that at least some Indian jobs are being outsourced to the United States and many other countrie...
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by Matthew Schulz on September 28, 2007
Expatriate and local workers, and their employers, alike are now covered new labor laws in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Some key provisions:
* It increases annual leave from 15 to 21 days and to 30 ...
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by Matthew Schulz on September 27, 2007
How do non-Muslim expatriates cope with assignments in Muslim countries during religious observances like Ramadan? Very nicely, thank you!
During Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking an...
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by Matthew Schulz on August 30, 2007
In June 2007, vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet announced that overseas Vietnamese would be exempt from the normal requirement of applying for a visa to visit the country. The exemption is not...
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by Matthew Schulz on August 21, 2007
Bahrain's Labour Market Regulatory Authority now has a website to provide expatriate workers and their families information about their government files. The website is also accessible to their em...
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by Matthew Schulz on August 20, 2007
There are a wide range of issues to consider on any Expatriate assignment.
In an article entitled, The challenge of working abroad, The Christian Science Monitor, August 20, 2007, writer Marilyn Gard...
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by Matthew Schulz on August 15, 2007
As macro-economic power shift away from the U.S. and towards Asian economic powers, Expatriate policies, practices and processes will be influenced more by the East than West, or at least that seems t...
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by Matthew Schulz on August 2, 2007
Citizens of Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are now eligible to enter Turkey for up to 30 days for business or pleasure without first applying for a visa.
Turkey alread...
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by Matthew Schulz on July 25, 2007
The dawn is green, not red, in China.
Concerns over the environment and pollution caused by rapid growth have led to an interest in investment in green technologies in China. This creates an opportun...
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by Matthew Schulz on July 22, 2007
Great quote attributed to the Swiss author Max Frisch in The New Melting Pot, Financial Times, July 9, 2007.
The New Melting Pot provides an interesting discussion of immigration trends in many Asian...
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by Matthew Schulz on July 6, 2007
A new "no touch" policy should halt strip searches by Philippine immigration officials of Japanese visitors.
It's not that they like or dislike tattoos.
The justification for the strip...
