Study Conducted By SIRVA and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Reveals Insights on Expatriate Livability in China
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CHICAGO, Sept. 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SIRVA, Inc. , a global relocation services provider, has released the findings of its China Urban Index, a mobility study investigating the suitability of first- and second-tier cities for business operations and expatriate relocations in China.
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First came Poland. Now it's China. Earlier this week, Peng Lu, a consultant for the Chinese government, met with local leaders to talk about forging new business relationships.
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Bad news for new Americans: A study published Wednesday shows that simply moving to the United States packs on the pounds. &quot;The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be obese,&quot; says Mita Sanghavi
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SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by.
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MACAU, Dec. 19. - Five years after Macau was returned to China, the former Portuguese colony is enjoying political stability and an economic boom that has so far eluded neighbouring Hong Kong, another former
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Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red Cross.
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Bad news for new Americans: A study published Wednesday shows that simply moving to the USA packs on the pounds. &quot;The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be obese,&quot; says Mita Sanghavi Goel, a
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Hong Kong's worsening air quality is driving down analyst estimates for real estate companies?and could start driving residents away
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday. The study, conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ranked 64 nations on several factors, such as PC ownership, broadband adoption, government regulation, enrollment in higher education, IT employment, research and development spending, and cybercrime laws. Using 25 weighted factors, the EIU ranked the U.S. first in IT competitiveness and Japan second. Also in the top five: South Korea, the U.K., and Australia. India ranked 46th out of 64 countries included in the study, while China ranked 49th. Iran, Nigeria, and Azerbaijan were the bottom three on the list. While several members of the U.S. Congress have voiced worries about U.S. competitiveness in recent months, the nation stacks up well in all six umbrella categories, said Denis McCauley, EIU's director of global technology research. The U.S. has a robust IT infrastructure and skilled workers, he said. "Still, the U.S. is a magnet for talent overseas," he added. But the U.S. faces several challenges, he added. The U.S. government lacks a national policy to increase broadband adoption, and attempts to allow increased immigration have stalled, McCauley said. "There's no getting around the U.S. has great strengths," he said. "By the same token, I'd say there are some risks for the U.S., and one of the risks is being complacent. There's valid worry about slippage." India and China rank relatively low in the study because of a lack of intellectual-property protections and because in per capita rankings, the two countries are low in areas such as PC ownership and research investment, McCauley said. IT infrastructure in the two countries is limited to urban areas, he added. "They need to do a much better job of diffusing [IT] to more of the population," he said. China and India's low labor costs gained the countries advantages, but in the future, they will face wage competition from such nationsÂ as Vietnam, Brazil, and Russia, McCauley added. Few countries have been able to overcome major legal and infrastructure weaknesses to jump start their IT industries, and China and India need to improve their other factors as their cost advantages erode, he said. Countries most likely to move up in the rankings are "skills-rich" nations that can develop niche IT industries, the study said. In addition to Vietnam, Brazil and Russia, other likely movers include Malaysia, Estonia, Lithuania and Chile, the study said. Estonia ranked 25th, while Vietnam ranked 61st. BSA commissioned the study to set a benchmark that governments could use to improve their IT competitiveness, said Robert Holleyman, the BSA's president and CEO. "We find governments around the world that want to know what they can do to enhance their competitiveness," Holleyman said. "This will be a great survey to provide a government official not only in the U.S., but internationally."
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Working in poverty-stricken areas  gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems  such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in  a position to bring about change.
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The ease of travel to the China  mainland since Hong Kong&#39;s handover in 1997 has drawn the  city&#39;s young people to a cheap and convenient playground just  across the border in Shenzhen city.
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Updating Confucius to the stresses of a fast-changing nation.
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(InfoWorld) - Google's dominance may seem unassailable in North America, but it's the search giant that is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday. Despite the popularity of Google's Web sites elsewhere in the world, it failed to attract the most visitors in any of the 10 Asian countries surveyed in May by comScore Networks. Yahoo fared far better, claiming the most popular sites in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan, while Microsoft sites were the most popular in Australia,Â China, and New Zealand. The survey also showed that China has the largest online population in Asia, with 91.5 monthly Internet users, followed by Japan with 53.7 million and South Korea with 26.3 million. New Zealand had the fewest monthly users, with 1.9 million. South Korea topped the list for highest Internet penetration, with 65 percent of its population using the Internet at least once during the month. Australia followed with 62 percent, then New Zealand with 60 percent, comScore said. China and India had the lowest Internet penetration rates, at 9 percent and 3 percent, respectively. ComScore surveyed people aged 15 years or older who accessed the Internet from a home or work computer. In other findings it reported that: -- nearly 284 million people age 15 or older accessed the Internet from a home or work computer across the Asia Pacific. -- The average person used the Internet on 13.8 days in the month and spent 20.2 hours online. That compared to the global averages of 17.1 days per month and 25.2 hours online, comScore said.
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It has been 10 years since the handover, and Hong Kong sparkles. But can it find still greater success in a changing China  -  and a changing world?
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Tourist guides warn visitors that personal space is not highly valued in China, where bumping, barging and queue-jumping is an acceptable facet of daily life.
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A new TIME/CNN survey finds that Asians strongly support spending on space exploration despite myriad other concerns facing their countries
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.