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Will work for nybbles
A few days ago I received a heartwarming email correspondence from a guy I’d never heard of. It brought unintentionally good tidings regarding employment in Toronto (at least in my field of work), as well as reaffirming my disdain for that barnacle...
Tags: employment, unemployment, global, economic, downturn, job, jobs, toronto, city, life
Downturn to cost billions in aid to world's poor
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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The cost to aid budgets of the world economic downturn is headed for billions of dollars, slashing assistance to the world's poorest people just as it becomes harder for them to make money for themselves. In the United States, the heads of more than 50...
Tags: financial crisis, downturn, global financial crisis, crisis, world economic forum
Monsters and Critics: Air traffic dips in 2008, airlines warned of "difficult" year ahead
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Herdman said passenger and cargo traffic fared well for the first half of the year before dipping in the second half. He warned carriers of increasingly challenging times this year. 'With no sign of any respite amidst the global economic downturn,...
Taiwan unemployment rate breaks through 5 percent
Taipei :: Taiwan | 10 months ago
Credibility The unemployment rate broke through the 5-percent level in December, with the highest number of people unemployed since records began 30 years ago, the government announced Thursday. The number of people looking for work surged to 549,000 from 507,000...
Tags: unemployment, downturn, economic, laid off, Taiwan Strait, jobless rate, unemployment rate
Investigation: Singapore casinos under threat of crime
When the Sands Macao opened in 2004, Asia's first Las Vegas-style casino prompted an extraordinary boom for Macau and casino owner Las Vegas Sands (LVS). Thereafter, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reversed decades of ruling party opposition...
Tags: singapore casino, downturn, newscop
Macau's hot streak shows signs of cooling
Macau :: Brazil | about 1 year ago
Credibility The baccarat tables at the Venetian's Red Dragon section still teem each night with hundreds of the Chinese players who've fueled Macau's breathtaking shot to the top of the gambling world. But as gamblers place bets of 500 patacas ($65) and more in Las...
Tags: downturn, Las Vegas Sands
Experts see security risks in downturn
Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats....
Telecom Giant BT announces to cut 10,000 jobs...Have Recession Started to Bite Already??
In its half-year results, the company said that it has already cut 4,000 employees, while a further 6,000 will go between now and March.Consultants, contractors and offshore staff among the company's total workforce of 160,000 are to be worst hit...
The Press, New Zealand: Downturn foiled bigger tax cuts
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Government shaved $1.3 billion off a planned $5 billion annual package of personal tax cuts less than a month before the Budget, in the face of forecasts of slow growth and a likely blowout in debt. The final programme was set at $3.76 billion a year,...
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