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Understanding China FCPA Risks. Who Is A Foreign Official?
2009-09-22 19:46:00
I am becoming obsessed with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) because I see it as one of the the "most missed" things for United States companies doing business in or with China. The other day, I was interviewed by a news service reporter who asked me whether the FCPA is a big issue for my firm's clients. She was calling me to discuss a post I did earlier this year about a client who chose to walk away from a China deal out of fear of violating the FCPA. She asked me if this was common and whether my firm's clients are concerned about the FCPA. I told her this was actually the first time in years a client had even raised an FCPA issue with me and that clients never even broach the subject with us when going into China. I told her I am the only one who ever brings it up and when I do, clients are generally not terribly interested. I see this as a huge mistake, particularly since the US Department of Justice has made clear it intends to increase its pursuit of FCPA c...
Obama?s Cowboy Foreign Policy
2009-09-21 08:35:00
Recall how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took an inaccurately-translated reset button to her first meeting with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Obama Administration’s foreign policy was going to be different from that the previous Administration. Unlike Bush, Obama wasn’t going to go it alone, but instead engage in “smart diplomacy” and cooperate more closely with ...
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements
2009-09-20 20:06:00
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements MOGADISHU – Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents called Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region’s most wanted al-Qaida suspects. The U.S. special forces operation that killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern ...
Report: Fake Aid, Over Ł1bn of UK foreign ?aid? used to spread propaganda
2009-09-18 13:33:00
A lot of reports, press releases and articles pass by my metaphorical desk. Many go straight in the bin, others make it on this blog in some shape or form. I’ve found that Twitter is a great... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to September 1
2009-09-18 09:01:00
[Congressman Alan] Grayson: “So who got the money?” Bernanke: “Financial institutions in Europe and other countries.” Grayson: “Which ones?” Bernanke: “I don’t know.” Grayson: “Half a trillion dollars and you don’t know who got the money?” - Wall St. Cheat Sheet1 Twist was circulating the above around the Castle earlier today with the comment "… you could purchase a bunch of treasuries and agency debt with that," to which I’m going to add the thought — last week. Foreign central banks have been suddenly gorging on Treasury Debt, but an even bigger number is this week’s Puplava number, and it was so extreme it merited notice in Bloomberg.2 The Fed’s assets rose $51.9 billion, or 2.5 percent, to $2.14 trillion, the highest since May, in the week ended yesterday, the central bank said today in Washington. Mortgage- backed securities increased by $59.8 billion to $685.1 bil...
Are the Keystone Cops Running U.S. Foreign Policy?
2009-09-14 15:30:00
Having appreciated the spirited campaign Hillary Clinton waged in the late spring of 2008 for the Democratic presidential nomination, I wondered last January if she could become a great Secretary of State.  But, yet, in the nearly eight months since she has taken office as the nation’s top diplomat, she has faded into the background, ...
Useful Foreign Phrases
2009-09-13 15:30:00
Tis the season for new travel books, and they’re piling up faster than I can read them.  My most recent receipt is “The Third Tower Up from the Road: A Compilation of Columns from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency” by Kevin Dolgin. These are humorous sketches of over 50 world cities by a guy who travels for mysterious ...Your Free Subscriber Download Download "Dare Me!" now. Enjoy 17 off-the-wall adventures from a RTW trip. Related posts:30 Words – A New Approach To Language GuidesStuff I Am Not PlanningSaying Goodbye…Again
Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to September 9
2009-09-11 09:01:00
Moody’s said in a report it doesn’t expect any downgrades of countries with triple-A ratings — the highest possible — in the "near future," adding that only a sustained increase in government debt over several years, which it doesn’t anticipate, would warrant such a decision. - WSJ1 Well, the good news is that this week’s Reuters report2 suggests if the US wants to sell a lot more debt, foreign central banks might not be in a mood right now to buy the stuff. The report was, as usual, based on the weekly update from the NY Fed’s H.4.1 table site.3 Here is Doom’s updated CSV version4 of the agencies and treasuries foreign central bank holdings data set. The Puplava number barely budged. The Fed’s own holdings of mortgage-backed securities rose a mere $0.025 billion. Cenbanks sold a modest but significant $3.003 billion of Treasury Debt last week. Could this sputtering pattern presage a top? Agencies fell by $2.656 b...
US Goes It Alone In Foreign Policy
2009-09-09 04:13:00
Great piece today on Investor’s Business Daily’s editorials site about how even enemies of liberty like Hugo Chavez are finding it inevitable that (to steal a phrase) “democratic, constitutional governance” will probably prevail despite the Obama Administration’s ongoing efforts to thwart the rule of law in Honduras with their bully tactics toward the interrim (and, ...
China's First Foreign Nail House. Dude, Where's Your Contract?
2009-09-07 18:58:00
Lara Farrar and Xie Yu have written an excellent article for the China Daily and AsiaOne on the recent controversy swirling around what is being called China's first foreign nail house case. The article is entitled, "1st foreigner 'nail household' in China," and it details the travails Tim Hilbert has been having in getting compensation from his landlord for the demolition of the Beijing building that housed Hilbert's restaurant, "Tim's Texas Roadhouse." This is an excellent article because, near as I can tell, it is the only English language article out there that actually correctly analyzes the legal issues. And yes, it is from the China Daily! The article starts out by setting the factual stage: Tim Hilbert may have been the first foreigner holed up in one of China's famous "nail houses" -- buildings occupied by stubborn tenants who refuse to leave despite the demolition of structures around them. But he told China Daily that he does not want to be tagged a "trouble...
No Stars, No Private Equity, No Problem: Welcome to Foreign-Language Indies
2009-09-01 15:02:00
First-half 2009 statistics on independent films point to some not-so-obvious differences between foreign-language and English-language movies. They also highlight some not-so-surprising commonalities. Foreign-language films that are released into the domestic theatrical marketplace seldom, if ever, open at more than 1000 theaters. Furthermore, very few are produced by one of the six major American studios. Thus, by ...
Kubuntu Quick Tip: Foreign Characters
2009-08-29 21:16:00
Here's a quick tip if you find yourself typing a lot of accented letters, etc. We're going to assign our keyboard a Compose key. In Kubuntu, do the following: read more
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in China. September 3, 2009, Teleconference.
2009-08-25 17:43:00
Stafford Publications is putting on a teleconference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in China. Before I talk about that though, there is one thing I have to get out of the way. Every time I see a very British name like Stafford, I cannot help but smile and remember a hometown friend of mine who named his business "Tafford." My friend's business has become quite successful on a national level and my friends and I still always effect a very British accent whenever we discuss it. Now here's the funny part, my friend came up with the name from an expression we back then: Take a Flying F--k On a Rolling Donut. That equals TAFFORD. Get it? Sorry. Anyway, this teleconference will be on September 3 and it features really good people and it will be focusing on the following: This seminar will examine recent FCPA enforcement focused on business activity in China, discuss the unique FCPA challenges of conducting business in China, and outline strategies for effective ...
Why Submission - and Islamic Thought - seem so Foreign to Western Thinking
2009-08-25 07:16:00
Our Western world seems to be obsessed with winning. Try and be your best, we are told. Never give up. Fight for your dreams and ideals. There is an air of invincible force over the North American spirit that thrives on obstacles and competition; everyone is always on the look-out for self-improvement. ?Second-best? just doesn?t cut it; it?s the consolation price; it?s the price invented for losers only.Although these are great principles that can move forward both the individual and the nation, it also has its peculiar drawbacks. Success becomes often defined and measured by ?material success?. Businessmen compete with each other in size and money. Athletes break their necks to break world-records. Bestsellers and blockbuster vie over how much cash they can bring in.The other drawback exists in the limits we each face. Ignoring them does not make them go away. No matter how much time I may spend on learning an art that is contrary to my talents and abilities ? such as drawing - I j...
Night Toilet In Foreign Land
2009-08-21 23:00:00
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Can You Say China Relevant?
2009-07-27 04:06:00
I was talking with Kevin O'Keefe the other day about law blogs. Kevin is the founder of LexBlog, which dominates the market for setting law firms up on blogs. Despite originally being from Wisconsin (he now lives in Seattle), Kevin knows more about law blogging than any guy alive. Despite the recession, his business is still growing by leaps and bounds, which caused me to ask him if he had any plans to expand beyond legal blogging. His response to that was that legal blogging has barely just begun and there are still a huge number of legal arenas that are under-served or not being served at all. I agreed with him and then we started talking about how certain blogs are so good and so comprehensive they just fill "the space." One of the things I love about being an international lawyer is that I get to remain somewhat of a generalist. Yeah sure, there are certain things (OEM contracts, for example) that I have done hundreds of times, but there are other things of which I need...
Are the "Obama's foreign born" folks being racist?
2009-07-23 18:40:00
I'm not sure most of the people who are harping on this "birth certificate" issue even believe it's true; I think they're mostly looking for something to badger the winner with. It's amazing what people will do when they're feeling bitter.Are there racists among them? I assume so, but I'm not sure what fraction it is, let alone if it's the majority. As for the rest of them, logic isn't at issue with most in this situation. It's an emotional response, just as many reactions are in the political arena. There were nut-cases dogging every President in recent memory, forcing them to spend time and attention on trivia - taking their time and energy away from the larger problems facing the people of this country.Many of them, in this case, have trouble feeling any sort of sense of commonality - or community - with the duly elected former Senator for any number of reasons: some because he's not white, some because he's a Democrat, some because they think he's trying to impose so...
Brian Steel Demythologizes Early Foreign-led Sathya Sai Baba Myths
2009-07-23 01:08:00
My previous blog was: Brian Steel On John Hislop?s 27 Years as Sathya Sai Baba?s Spokesman. It refers to the article article: Sathya Sai Baba?s credibility gap: Contributions by John Hislop. (Brian Steel. January 2009). This latter article is a scholarly, most readable and quite long article. Recognizing that many of my readers have heavy demands on their time, I shall select what I think are some of the key lines of his investigations. The reader may like to pick and chose among these - or else, of course aim to read deeply into Steel. At the moment, I am drawing attention to some more recent work of Steel, whose books while yet a follower of Sathya Sai Baba were highly-regarded, as they are now by ex-devotees and other critics of the Sathya Sai cult. Those who have time - perhaps for exhaustive academic, media investigative or book preparation purposes - will find Steel's work indispensible. It is vast and rigorous.
Filing Information About Remittance of Foreign Exchange A Must Now!
2009-06-30 04:35:00
CBDT has issued Circular No. 04/2009 dated 29/06/2009 by which procedure to file information regarding foreign exchange remittance electronically is now made must . The gist of the circular is given below:   Section 195 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 mandates deduction of income tax from payments made or credit given to non-residents at the rates in force. The Reserve Bank of India has also mandated that except in the case of certain personal remittances which have been specifically exempted, no remittance shall be made to a non-resident unless a no objection certificate has been obtained from the Income Tax Department. This was modified to allow such remittances without insisting on a no objection certificate from the Income Tax Department, if the person making the remittance furnishes an undertaking (addressed to the Assessing Officer) accompanied by a certificate from an Accountant in a specified format. The certificate and undertaking are to be submitted (in duplicate) to ...
Obama Administration: Where Reality Doesn?t Get in the Way of Foreign Poli
2009-06-14 19:10:00
In an article on the “near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN” of the growing protests in Iran against election irregularities, we read: “The Obama administration is determined to press on with efforts to engage the Iranian government,” The New York Times cited senior officials as having said Saturday, “despite misgivings about irregularities ...
Attacks By Hooligans Against Foreign Students In Australia
2009-06-05 01:06:00
In relation to attacks against foreign students in Australia, there are some tough questions. The issue is complex, and not as portrayed either by certain sections of the Indian media and zealots nor by an isolated but powerful and disgraceful class of radio biggots and their poorly-educated audiences we have in Australia, known as 'shock jocks'. No amount of misrepresentation can alter the facts that most Australians do not engage in nor approve of racism. Many who have migrated to this country from a great many countries attest to this fact. I offer some questions - very preliminary - that I think my fellow Australians will need to consider:
Foreign Real Estate Development In China. Long Term Leasing Can Be A Good
2009-06-03 12:02:00
China Economic Review recently published an article by CLB's own Steve Dickinson on foreign investors entering into long term leases of Chinese real estate. The article is entitled "Don't play for keeps," and since a paid subscription is required, we will provide the article Steve wrote before the professional editors gussied it all up. The Chinese real estate market remains a continuing lure to foreign investors. Though many North American and European investors have attempted to enter the market during the last decade, few have achieved solid success. Since China continues to be the strongest economy in the developing world, foreign real estate investors continue to search for the secret that will allow them to crack China's real estate market. One strategy gaining in popularity is to use a long-term lease instead of outright purchase for a development property. The use of the long-term lease is designed to deal with two major issues. First, since a lease is a contract an...
Now Derivative Trading in Foreign Exchange Is Business Activity!
2009-06-01 19:46:00
In India , there are two main commodity exchanges ?Multi Commodity  Exchange of India Ltd (MCX )  and  National Commodity & Derivative Exchange Ltd NCDEX in India where one can trade in derivative contract of different items ?from pulse to metal. Now there is another exchange MCX Stock Exchange Ltd in which one can trade derivatives of foreign exchange.The transactions in derivative segments are regarded as ?Speculative transaction? which has a great bearing on the taxation of one?s income as the loss out of speculation is not allowed to be adjusted with any other income . Speculation loss is allowed to be adjusted with only speculation gain.For example , a person having income of 10 lakhs from share dealing and Rs 10 lakhs loss out of commodity derivatives transaction , has actually did not earn any penny. Still, as per the provision of I T Act , he will have to pay tax on share dealing income of Rs 10 lakhs and the loss of Rs 10 lakhs will have to be carried forward as unadjus...
Think of Canada as a foreign country
2009-05-31 15:07:00
That's the headline of this Buffalo News article today. I look forward to future insightful headlines including, Think of Cuba as an island. Think of Everest as a mountain. Think of Mars as a planet. Think of Motrin as an anti-inflammatory. Think of Europe as a continent. etc.
Spanish Lawmakers Vote to Restrict Foreign Probes
2009-05-20 18:31:00
In Spain, lawmakers are trying to block their judiciary?s war crimes investigations of foreign governments including the United States. On Tuesday, Spain?s Congress voted to limit judges? jurisdiction to cases with a clear Spanish connection. Spain?s National Court is currently investigating thirteen foreign cases under the principle of universal jurisdiction. They include the torture of ...
A.Y.P.E?s Foreign And Mines Buildings
2009-05-20 09:29:00
Don Duncan had a nice recap of the nearly century old Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, written in scrapbook form for his late grandmother who had seen it herself. We’re getting close now to that anniversary. Here are a couple photos of the Foreign Building and Mines Building. Click for high res. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Detail of Foreign Building, Howard ...
Culture shock! (working in a foreign country)
2009-05-19 04:04:00
I was wondering Many "Engineers" here have worked abroad, what are your anecdotes, culture shocks when you lived and worked in a foreign company/country? (i am also curious of how non western people culture shock experience) For me living in Japan, was/is; the extreme amount of bureaucracy in a
China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Sometimes You Just Hav
2009-05-10 16:46:00
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when youre sittin at the table. There'll be time enough for countin when the dealins done. -- Kenny Rogers, The Gambler A couple weeks ago, a long time client of mine called me with a concern. This is a tech products company that has been doing business globally since forever and with China for at least five years. It is a small, but very successful company and my dealings are typically with the company owner, which was true this time. Its product sells for around $100,000 each. I am going to have to be pretty vague here, but I can lay out the essentials. My client had been working with a Chinese company (let's call this China Company A) to which it had been selling its product for years. This Chinese company had told my client that a very large and clearly state owned company (China Company B) was interested in using China Company A to secur...
Foreign Direct Investment In China. The Times Have Changed. For Good.
2009-04-27 19:11:00
China Law Blog's Steve Dickinson recently did a China Economic Review column on China's efforts to move away from being an "export-led" economy. The column is entitled, "No Turning Back," [subscription required] and its thesis is that despite the economic downturn, China's overall macroeconomic plan is still moving forward. Steve starts out by noting how the recent session of the National People's Congress has made clear that China is not backing down from its plan to move away from export-led growth: For all the pledges of support for struggling manufacturers, the surprise package of the recent session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) was actually a definitive rejection of the export-led growth model. While China will obviously remain open to foreign commerce, Beijing’s response to the global economic slowdown is to emphasize even more strongly the role of domestic consumption and domestic investment in maintaining growth. Many foreign observers expected that th...
3 Year Lock-in for Foreign Investment in Real Estate
2009-03-25 13:05:00
Foreign investors in Indian real estate cannot sell their stakes to another foreign investor before three years, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), the body that clears such proposals, has said. With this, FIPB has overruled a provision in FDI policy that exempts foreign players from the rule in cases where fund transfer is from ...
Mac Mohan wrote a new blog post: The Best Foreign Retail Pharmacies Online
2009-03-04 08:54:00
Mac Mohan wrote a new blog post: The Best Foreign Retail Pharmacies Online Canadian Pharmacy offer cheap priced Latin drugs at considerably low prices. Canada Pharmacy offer cheap priced reliable and affordable drugs. Mexican Internation Pharmacy have made possible for every person to buy Latin drugs online easily because Canadian Pharmacy have healed the nations of North American peninsula and Canadian peninsula with the help of these drugs. ...
Is ?Being Liked? the Goal Of Obama?s Foreign Policy?
2009-02-25 10:06:00
Whenever I defend former President Bush’s foreign policy to his critics, they will invariably remind me how America’s image abroad suffered under his administration.  We weren’t, they claimed, as well liked when he left office as we were when he came to power. Sometimes, however, when you do the right thing, you earn the enmity of ...
Begging a Foreign Country to Buy Up Our Debt?!?
2009-02-24 18:38:00
Sonicfrog wonders if when Secretary of Clinton Hillary Clinton asked China to buy US Debt, if this were “the first time this has happened since the American Revolution.“ Good question.  And I agree that this is embarrassing.
When Indian Media Coat Tails Foreign Media. Did Freedom Happen?
2009-02-13 00:26:00
Leaving aside, of course, the occasional exception like the mass circulation magazine India Today, see Exposure of Sathya Sai Baba. Media Source List, when it when it acted on submissions from networked former devotees in a number of countries, we have not had much joy from the Indian media. A further breakthrough of sorts occurred when the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) took seriously our work in regard to the Duke of Edinburgh Awards-Sathya Sai Baba connection.
Sanlu's Lessons For Foreign Managers In China....Because Jail Is Proba
2009-02-09 06:43:00
By: Steve Dickinson The China Economic Review recently published this column by CLB's own Steve Dickinson, entitled, "Foreign Managers Are Not Above the Law." [subscription presently required] It bears mentioning that Steve wrote this article in China (where he lives and works) before the news of the Peanut Corporation of America's salmonella outbreak in the US. Here's Steve's column: The San Lu tainted milk scandal reached a typically Chinese conclusion on December 31, 2008. On that day, San Lu group chairperson Tian Wenhua and three other top group executives pleaded guilty to the crime of production and sale of substandard product. Since at least six deaths occurred, the defendants face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment or death. Resolution of the tainted milk scandal followed a fairly typical Chinese pattern: • San Lu was forced into a government-supervised bankruptcy. • An industry wide compensation fund was established and managed by the government. • ...
Meet the New Foreign Policy, Same As the Old Foreign Policy
2009-02-08 19:39:00
I wrote some weeks ago at Pajamas Media: For all the vitriol that has been coming from the left, and specifically out of President Obama’s mouth during the campaign, there’s a difference in tone coming out of the Obama camp over the last several weeks. There has been an abandonment of the hot rhetoric of the leftist in favor of of a liberal forced to face the reality of the world around him (i.e., adpopting existing White House policy). The change in tone is a recognition that the rhetoric that the American public was offered during the election was simply not based on reality. As President Obama and his people are briefed on what has been happening in the world these last eight years, the insider’s view has given them a completely new perspective on what to do about the situation, resulting in completely different actions as compared to the ones they were telling everyone they would take once they were given the power. The problem, of course, is that the always image consci...
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Another Obama Foreign Policy Failure? Or Is It?
2009-02-01 14:23:00
-By Warner Todd Huston During the campaign, Barack Obama maintained that he would focus on intervening between Pakistan and India over their disputed Kashmir region. Obama repeatedly claimed that settling the Kashmir question was a “critical task” for the next administration and floated a lot of conjecture about how his administration would step in to solve ...
Union government can Change Foreign Ownership Rules
2009-01-29 09:40:00
The Union government plans to change foreign ownership rules in the real estate sector by scaling down the minimum area requirements for residential and commercial projects that have overseas investment. Current foreign direct investment (FDI) norms set the minimum area for serviced housing plots with such overseas ownership at 25 acres and, for construction development ...
Social Justice As Foreign Policy
2009-01-27 20:14:00
-By Thomas E. Brewton President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly believe that the key to world peace is an international welfare state to equalize wealth distribution worldwide. Both the President and his Secretary of State are on record as believing that the key to world peace and the end of Islamic jihad is to ...
OBAMA ATTACKS FOREIGN NATION,KILLS INNOCENT CIVILIANS
2009-01-24 17:53:00
This is an outrage!!!!!!!! Six more bodies were recovered from the rubble of an Al-Qaeda den hit by a suspected US missile, pushing the death toll in two separate strikes to 21, security officials said Saturday.”Six bodies of local tribesmen were found in the rubble of the house which was destroyed in a US missile strike ...
Armenian Journalist Hopes Obama Administration Will Protect Foreign Workers
2009-01-22 20:42:00
 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog, January 22, 2009, San Francisco — Anna Karapetian, a journalist from Armenia who in radio broadcasts funded by the U.S. government reported on human rights abuses in her country, is one of many people around the world who see Barack Obama’s inauguration as a hopeful beginning of a new era ...
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2009-01-19 12:30:00
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The Latest On Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) In China
2009-01-14 03:25:00
The following is an outline of a talk co-blogger Steve Dickinson gave yesterday at The China Economic Review" forum on "Foreign Direct Investment in China: Optimizing FDI strategy in the current economic climate." UPDATE AND FORECAST OF REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FDI IN CHINA I. Major features of the current FDI system in China as of January 1, 2009. The PRC FDI system dramatically changed during the period of 2006 to 2008. The main features of that change are: A. Tax neutral FDI policy. In 2008, China reversed its prior tax policy concerning FDI. Under the old policy, foreign investors were taxed at a lower rate than domestic investors. Investors in specific regions such as Pudong were provided with various tax exemptions. All this was eliminated in the new income tax code, which mandates a neutral FDI investment framework: no incentives based on nationality or region. Incentives are instead provided for specific encouraged business activities. A limited exception to this pol...
Cool Cars: Foreign-Bodied Fords of the 1930s
2009-01-13 23:01:00
You never know what you'll find for sale in the car corral at Hershey, as witnessed by this incredibly rare early Ford V-8. It's a 1936 Ford with a cabriolet-styled body that was crafted by the German coachbuilder Gläser. Gläser was mainly known for the early Porsche 356 bodies that they built
The Truth About Teaching English in Foreign Countries #4: The Knitting Circ
2009-01-08 16:13:00
When I first entered this field, I wish somebody would have warned me about the various lions dens I would be entering. Of course, I was naive not to consider the politics of a foreign education system. Many people begin teaching in schools where they forget about how long their coworkers may have been teaching there. ...
Foreign Language and Mother Tongue
2009-01-07 12:48:00
Foreign Language and Mother TongueBy Istvan Kecskes, TAnde Papp, Tunde Papp Publisher:   Lawrence Erlbaum Number Of Pages:   176 Publication Date:   2000-06-01 ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0805827595  
The China Economy For Foreign Companies
2009-01-04 22:13:00
I was interviewed a couple weeks ago by a reporter who wanted to know what impact the declining economy in China was having on my law firm's clients. I told her none. I said that so far, anyway, not a single client had even mentioned China's declining economy as a factor in its decision-making. But I then said that I had also not really been asking and that about half our clients are not in manufacturing, and that virtually none of our manufacturing clients make low end products like $2 toys, socks, or costume jewelry. I also mentioned that less than ten percent of our manufacturing clients are in Guangdong Province, which seems to have been hardest hit. Since that interview, I have conducted an extremely unscientific client survey regarding our clients' China plans. This survey was of about fifteen clients (to tell you how unscientific it was, I took no notes), eleven of which are American, one Korean, one Spanish, one Mexican, and one German. About half are in manufactu...
The Truth About Teaching English in Foreign Countries #3: Marketable Caucas
2009-01-03 19:35:00
Depending on where one chooses to pursue ESL, race might determine job availability, or even the pay scale. Unfortunately, many schools, especially in the third world, require a white face to help market the institution as prestigious. Regardless of what the candidate might be capable of, they want the parents of the children to know ...
The Truth About Teaching English in Foreign Countries #2:TESOL, TEFL, CELTA
2009-01-03 19:34:00
Okay, so you decide to see what this ESL thing is all about and you look at the certifications. The most common ones are TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). What’s the difference? Well, most people will claim that there is no difference. They’ll say ...
The Truth About Teaching English in Foreign Countries #1
2009-01-03 19:33:00
Have you ever wondered about all those advertisements for TESOL and TEFL schools. You know, the ones with catchy little titles like “Travel the world and get paid for it!” or “Make your life an adventure and become an English teacher!” Well, yes, these things are possibilities, but it takes quite a bit of craftiness ...
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