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Updated 2/2/2004; 1:34:39 PM

Friday, January 30, 2004

To Cut Deficit, Bush Delays Tax Change, Iraq Funds (Reuters). Reuters - President Bush will leave out of his budget widely anticipated Iraq-related costs and an expensive tax system overhaul to meet his election-year goal of cutting the federal deficit, congressional aides and budget analysts said on Friday. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
4:59:16 PM    comment []

Settlement reached with union retirees Bankrupt Kaiser Aluminum Corp. has reached a settlement with retired Steelworkers that could save a portion of their medical and retirement benefits, the company says. [Miami Herald: Business]
2:43:57 PM    comment []

Searching for work, piercing fans wonder if they can be themselves While piercings are growing more popular, their acceptance in the workplace hasn't necessarily kept pace. That can create an unhappy choice for job-seekers: either retain their display of individuality, or remove a piercing that might offend.[Miami Herald: Business]
2:43:23 PM    comment []

Mexico's southern border  Last year Mexico deported 147,000 illegal immigrants in all, some 20% more than in 2002. Over 90% came from just three Central American countries (Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua), almost all of whom are likely to have entered through the southern border. In Tapachula, immigration officials concede that the higher figure represents not their success in stemming the flow, but evidence that more are making the journey.  [Economist: World]
2:10:47 PM    comment []

Job cuts haven't reduced labor spending at Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines cut the equivalent of 14,391 full-time employees from 2000 to 2003, but the airline's spending on labor keeps going up, according to public company documents. The job cuts equal a 27 percent reduction in the company's labor force. [Miami Herald: Business]
1:03:38 PM    comment []

The 25 Fast and Furious (Forbes.com). Forbes.com - Smack amid the worst downturn in Silicon Valley's history, the 25 fastest-growing technology stars listed here managed to increase their revenue an average of 37% in the last 12 months. [Yahoo! News - Business]
1:02:40 PM    comment []

Economic Expansion Slows (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. economic growth slowed to a 4 percent annual rate in the closing three months of 2003, less than half the third-quarter pace as consumers curbed their spending, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. [Yahoo! News - Business]
1:02:11 PM    comment []

 Outsourcing legal jobs to India.  In a pilot program, Thomson has contracted with Indian lawyers to write bar review texts for American law students studying to take the bar examination.   While this albeit very minor development does not affect the legal professional in the U.S. -- legal advice may not be given in the US by those not admitted the bar -- it is clear that everyone and his brother have joined the outsourcing queue.  We will someday see garbage haulers attempt to outsource local trash pick-up? [Asia Business Intelligence]


12:56:29 PM    comment []

Retirees increasingly are keen to return to work  Employers are facing demands for reinstatement from the recently retired and resistance from older employees who want to keeping working as the move to abolish mandatory retirement gains political momentum. Canada, Globe & Mail  [GAM]
12:53:52 PM    comment []

Djibouti: Special report on girls' education. The Djibouti government aims to get all its boys and girls in school by the end of this decade. That target, most observers agree, is likely to prove much easier in the capital, Djibouti City, and provincial towns than in the hamlets that dot the arid countryside, where the challenges to universal primary education are strongest. [Africa Online Top News]
12:51:50 PM    comment []

Manufacturing at 'turning point'. Britain's troubled manufacturing sector is firmly on the road to recovery, according to business leaders' group the CBI. [BBC News | Business | Economy | World Edition]
12:49:28 PM    comment []

Illegals target Greek port lorries. The BBC's Richard Galpin says lorry drivers in the Greek port of Patras run the risk of being unwittingly targeted by illegal immigrants. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition]
12:48:50 PM    comment []

A Stealth Tax on Wages. The Administration is pressing forward with a series of initiatives that would eliminate much taxation of savings and investment, and instead aim the tax collector's net squarely at workers' wages. [AlterNet]
12:47:01 PM    comment []

Brazil slave inspectors killed. Three officials have been shot dead while investigating allegations of slavery, Brazil's Labour Ministry says. [BBC News | World | Americas | UK Edition]
10:49:14 AM    comment []

Brazil moves to halt farm clashes. Brazilian officials enter a farm occupied by native Indians to avert violence between them and local cattle ranchers. [BBC News | World | Americas | UK Edition]
10:47:49 AM    comment []

China has great potential to attract giant software firms Computer maker IBM announced recently that it will recruit 15,000 new staff around the globe, among which 70% will be recruited in China, India and other emerging markets. Experts say China should be able to draw on its advantages in attracting foreign software companies while at the same time developing its domestic market. 
 [People's Daily: Business]
10:46:42 AM    comment []

Brazil Leaders, Ministers Meet Investors (AP). AP - In an all-out bid to attract foreign investment, Brazil's energetic president and members of his Cabinet met with more than 200 executives Thursday to promote their country as a prime site for building factories and opening businesses. [Yahoo! News - World]
10:43:08 AM    comment []

Report: Lebanese “brain drain” has cost the country $30 billion According to the Arab Human Development Report 2003, excessive oil dependence and the accelerating emigration of educated professionals is having a damaging impact on the Arab World’s knowledge base. Oil dependency encourages spending and acquisition, providing little incentive to stimulate local investment and production. 
[Mena Report (English): Economy & Trade]
10:42:17 AM    comment []

Dec jobless rate falls to 30-month low TOKYO — Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December stood at 4.9%, falling below 5% for the first time since June 2001, the government said Friday. The December data put the nation's unemployment rate at 5.3% in 2003, down from a record high 5.4% in 2002 for the first drop in 13 years since 1990. (Kyodo News)
 
10:40:45 AM    comment []

Annan tells European Parliament that better migration policies will benefit all United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the European Union to better manage its legal immigration and strengthen the capacity of developing countries to give refugees adequate protection. [UN News Service]
10:39:51 AM    comment []

New hope for Morocco divorcees. A new family code in Morocco aims to end the plight of women being verbally divorced and left to beg in the streets.  "You can't liberate women without giving them any means. If a woman wants to get divorced and she is illiterate and unemployed, how she can exercise this freedom?"  [BBC News | Africa | World Edition]
10:38:54 AM    comment []

Pace of Economic Growth Slowed to 4 Percent at End of 2003. The growth rate was a slowdown from the previous quarter, but showed that the economy was on a relatively strong track. By Terence Neilan. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
10:35:36 AM    comment []

UK in India immigration deal. Indian nationals who remain in the UK without permission will be returned home more quickly under an agreement announced on Friday. [BBC News | South Asia | World Edition]
10:35:23 AM    comment []

GM Unit Near Deal on Racial Lawsuit (Reuters). Reuters - GMAC, the finance unit of automaker General Motors Corp. (GM.N), has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit claiming its lending practices discriminated against black consumers, the company and lawyers involved in the case said on Friday. [Yahoo! News - Business]
10:34:33 AM    comment []


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