Employement News 16 September 2013
UK deputy PM Clegg opposes visa bond plan
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Sunday said he will try to block any attempt to make foreign visitors routinely pay a security deposit to come to the UK, an idea that has spurred outrage in countries such as India and Nigeria.
The government plans to begin a pilot project in November involving Nigeria, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Some visitors will have to pay a 3,000 pound deposit, refunded upon departure.
China is likely to achieve its growth target of 7.5 per cent this year despite planned structural reforms to re balance the world’s second largest economy, the World Bank president said.
Jim Yong Kim is making a four-day visit focusing on issues relating to carbon emission reductions and China’s urbanisation push.
China’s economy expanded 7.7 per cent last year, its slowest growth since 1999.
China is preparing an “experimental” free trade zone (FTZ) in its commercial hub Shanghai as it tries to promote economic reforms.
Growth eased to 7.5 per cent in April-June, from 7.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year and 7.9 per cent in the final three months of 2012.
Brazil, Argentina team up for joint cyber-defence mechanism
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s state visit to U.S. hanging fire amid reports of NSA spying on her and millions of Brazilian citizens, South America has started working on joint cyber defence plans to protect data and privacy.
Brazil and Argentina decided to join hands to improve their cyber defence capabilities in the light of revelations about NSA snooping.
We need to reflect on how we cooperate to face these new forms of attack,” said Brazil’s Defence Minister Celso Amorim in Buenos Aires, after his meeting with top Argentinean leaders.
Earlier on Friday, Defence Ministers of both the countries signed a military cooperation agreement under which Brazil would provide cyber defence training to Argentine officers starting in 2014.
The two South American countries, said Mr. Amorim, would soon start sharing information for joint projects in of cyber defence.
The two have important software industries that could support those initiatives, he added.
Syria's opposition National Coalition on 14 September 2013 elected Ahmad Toameh as its interim Prime Minister to run the regions in the country under rebel control.
A moderate Islamist and a dentist by profession, 48 year old Toameh replaces Ghassan Hitto who resigned in July 2013 since he was not able to form a cabinet due to the division among rebel factions.
Ahmad Toameh received 75 votes, with 10 voting against him and 12 representatives filing blank ballots.
UK deputy PM Clegg opposes visa bond plan
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Sunday said he will try to block any attempt to make foreign visitors routinely pay a security deposit to come to the UK, an idea that has spurred outrage in countries such as India and Nigeria.
The government plans to begin a pilot project in November involving Nigeria, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Some visitors will have to pay a 3,000 pound deposit, refunded upon departure.
China to meet 7.5% growth target: World Bank chief
China is likely to achieve its growth target of 7.5 per cent this year despite planned structural reforms to re balance the world’s second largest economy, the World Bank president said.
Jim Yong Kim is making a four-day visit focusing on issues relating to carbon emission reductions and China’s urbanisation push.
China’s economy expanded 7.7 per cent last year, its slowest growth since 1999.
China is preparing an “experimental” free trade zone (FTZ) in its commercial hub Shanghai as it tries to promote economic reforms.
Growth eased to 7.5 per cent in April-June, from 7.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year and 7.9 per cent in the final three months of 2012.
Brazil, Argentina team up for joint cyber-defence mechanism
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s state visit to U.S. hanging fire amid reports of NSA spying on her and millions of Brazilian citizens, South America has started working on joint cyber defence plans to protect data and privacy.
Brazil and Argentina decided to join hands to improve their cyber defence capabilities in the light of revelations about NSA snooping.
We need to reflect on how we cooperate to face these new forms of attack,” said Brazil’s Defence Minister Celso Amorim in Buenos Aires, after his meeting with top Argentinean leaders.
Earlier on Friday, Defence Ministers of both the countries signed a military cooperation agreement under which Brazil would provide cyber defence training to Argentine officers starting in 2014.
The two South American countries, said Mr. Amorim, would soon start sharing information for joint projects in of cyber defence.
The two have important software industries that could support those initiatives, he added.
Ahmad Toameh appointed as a New Interim
Prime Minister of Syria
Syria's opposition National Coalition on 14 September 2013 elected Ahmad Toameh as its interim Prime Minister to run the regions in the country under rebel control.
A moderate Islamist and a dentist by profession, 48 year old Toameh replaces Ghassan Hitto who resigned in July 2013 since he was not able to form a cabinet due to the division among rebel factions.
Ahmad Toameh received 75 votes, with 10 voting against him and 12 representatives filing blank ballots.
Ahmad Al-Jarba is the new chief of the Syrian Opposition
National Coalition. He took over in July 2013.
He led the National Council since early July 2013 by Ahmad al-Jarba, a tribal chief and veteran dissident who fled abroad in August 2012 after being released from a second stint in the regime's jails.
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker gets Oscar entry
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker, Haifaa Al-Mansour has said she is proud to contribute to making the country more tolerant and open, with her movie now in the Oscar race, and that at times she was forced to shoot while hiding in a van.
She belongs to a country where movie halls are banned and where women are not allowed to drive, hold certain jobs or, in most cases, appear in public without a male escort.
Since the movie was shot, the law has been relaxed to allow females to bike, but only in recreational areas, while wearing a full-length abaya and with a male relative present, the report further said.
In her late 20s, Al-Mansour began making low-budget shorts with her siblings as crew.
She said the movie, not surprisingly, had drawn criticism from conservatives inside Saudi Arabia
and a lot of people are unhappy with it.
Tens of thousands of Polish trade unionists kicked off a
march through the capital on Saturday in the finale of a four-day protest
against the unpopular and increasingly fragile centre-right government.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday launched the Yal Devi, connecting Colombo to Kilinochchi, reviving an old rail link after a gap of 23 years---
The railway line from Medawachchi in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province to Kankasanthurai in the country’s northern tip was commissioned on September 10, 1905.
Gradually, the line grew to become a crucial link — virtually a backbone running across the country — connecting the south and north.
However, during the war, the rail network was shattered and the train service ceased operations after June 13, 1990, according to local reports.
After the three-decade-long war ended the Sri Lankan government began rebuilding the line, and resumed operations from Vavuniya to Thandikulam on June 7, 2009 and then extended its run to Omanthai on May 29, 2011, news agency Adaderana reported.
This is one of the two key railway line projects in Sri Lanka — the other, from Medawachchiya to Talaimannar — that India is helping rebuild, with a soft line of credit amounting to Rs.4,000 crore.
Indian Railway Construction Company Limited (Ircon) is the key contractor of the project.
The remaing stretch of the line up to Kankasanthurai is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
He led the National Council since early July 2013 by Ahmad al-Jarba, a tribal chief and veteran dissident who fled abroad in August 2012 after being released from a second stint in the regime's jails.
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker gets Oscar entry
Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker, Haifaa Al-Mansour has said she is proud to contribute to making the country more tolerant and open, with her movie now in the Oscar race, and that at times she was forced to shoot while hiding in a van.
She belongs to a country where movie halls are banned and where women are not allowed to drive, hold certain jobs or, in most cases, appear in public without a male escort.
Since the movie was shot, the law has been relaxed to allow females to bike, but only in recreational areas, while wearing a full-length abaya and with a male relative present, the report further said.
In her late 20s, Al-Mansour began making low-budget shorts with her siblings as crew.
She said the movie, not surprisingly, had drawn criticism from conservatives inside Saudi Arabia
and a lot of people are unhappy with it.
Mass anti-government protest gears up in
Poland
The protest reflects widespread public gloom over this
year's sharp economic slowdown in Poland, which has been dragged down by the
eurozone crisis.
The disillusionment has plunged the coalition
government's popularity to its lowest level since Prime Minister Donald Tusk
took office in 2007.
Tusk argued Friday that his success in pushing through a
revised 2013 budget -widening the deficit by an extra 3.8 billion euros ($5
billion)bodes well for the future.
However the economy slowed to just 0.1 percent growth in
the first quarter of this year as Poland's main trade partner the eurozone
struggled with recession.
The railway line from Medawachchi in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province to Kankasanthurai in the country’s northern tip was commissioned on September 10, 1905.
Gradually, the line grew to become a crucial link — virtually a backbone running across the country — connecting the south and north.
However, during the war, the rail network was shattered and the train service ceased operations after June 13, 1990, according to local reports.
After the three-decade-long war ended the Sri Lankan government began rebuilding the line, and resumed operations from Vavuniya to Thandikulam on June 7, 2009 and then extended its run to Omanthai on May 29, 2011, news agency Adaderana reported.
This is one of the two key railway line projects in Sri Lanka — the other, from Medawachchiya to Talaimannar — that India is helping rebuild, with a soft line of credit amounting to Rs.4,000 crore.
Indian Railway Construction Company Limited (Ircon) is the key contractor of the project.
The remaing stretch of the line up to Kankasanthurai is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
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