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...reverse cultural acclimatization is also under way, however, as growing numbers of former expatriates and Indians born and raised abroad begin to work in India. "Until 10 years back, the only foreigners were at the CEO level," says Jha, "but today, they're at all levels." Various informal expat clubs offer tips to ensure a soft landing for first-timers, and even books are available containing tips on avoiding cultural faux pas, doing business in Bangalore, and on taxation, banking and foreign exchange regulations in India. "No matter where you're working in the IT industry, in three to four...
...expat community of Asia in the 1980s, single mothers were rare, and Ann stood out. She was by then a rather large woman with frizzy black hair. But Indonesia was an uncommonly tolerant place. "For someone like Ann, who had a big personality and was a big presence," says Zurbuchen, "Indonesia was very accepting. It gave her a sense of fitting in." At home, Ann wore the traditional housecoat, the batik daster. She loved simple, traditional restaurants. Friends remember sharing bakso bola tenis, or noodles with tennis-ball-size meatballs, from a roadside stand...
...poured around $917 million into its tax system in 2006 alone. The central government lets foreigners negotiate how much tax they pay directly with whichever of the country's 26 cantons they move to; an annual lump sum is calculated, based on five times the rental value of the expat's Swiss home. Rates average around 30%, but vary among cantons - in Geneva, taxes are on the higher side, while in less crowded cantons like Zug (an increasingly popular spot for foreign hedge-fund managers) they can be less than 15%. For good measure, there's the added thrill...
...Russians didn't comment on how exactly the FSB was "protecting them." However, The Moscow Times - an expat community English-language daily, quoted the St. Petersburg's FSB spokeswoman on Thursday claiming that the Russian staff had been told that the BC was operating illegally and that their employment might be illegal...
...achy joints and feverish dreams. That's when he got suspicious that he had dengue fever, the mosquito-borne virus that, in its deadly form, causes blood to seep from the bloodstream into tissue and eventually from the body's orifices. Several days later, doctors diagnosed the expat aid worker with a milder, non-lethal variation of the disease. Since there are no drugs or vaccines for dengue, Tind Simmons did what some 38,500 infected Cambodians did this year: he drank plenty of water and waited for his bout of "bone-break fever," as the disease is often called...