Posted: July 15th, 2010 | Author: ruth | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: June 2nd, 2010 | Author: gautam | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: May 25th, 2010 | Author: gautam | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: May 4th, 2010 | Author: gautam | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: February 4th, 2010 | Author: gautam | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: December 30th, 2009 | Author: Greg Cruey | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: December 27th, 2009 | Author: Greg Cruey | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: November 26th, 2009 | Author: Greg Cruey | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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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 …
Posted: October 26th, 2009 | Author: Greg Cruey | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 | Author: Greg Cruey | Filed under: Asia | No Comments »
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…