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...Expat's Lament As a Burmese citizen living abroad, I have been following the events in my native country closely [Oct. 22]. In 1988 I personally experienced the brutality of the government. It is appalling what a government can do to its own people. But the '88 uprising was quickly forgotten by the international community. I am again worried that Burma's problems will be soon forgotten. I was not there in person this time, but the images of the monks and nuns demonstrating on the streets of Rangoon made me cry. Religion is all that the Burmese have...
...could say the visionary geneticist had a clear genetic edge. Capecchi's grandmother was a painter, his uncle a renowned physicist, and his mother Lucy Ramberg an expat American poet living in a chalet in the Italian Alps when Mario was born in 1937. She had fallen in with a group of bohemian writers who believed, her son says with just a trace of bemusement, that "they could wipe out Fascism and Nazism with a pen." After the Gestapo came in 1941 to take her to Dachau, Mario landed on the streets. He was 4 years...
Such flexibility is critical for running a business in China or India, and more companies are beginning to screen expat candidates to make sure they've got it. "Companies used to think that whoever was successful here would be successful anywhere else, and so they'd send that guy," says Ramakrishnan of CTPartners, which is based in New York City. "That is no longer the case." Through a battery of tests, including psychological profiling and hypothetical scenarios, the firm tries to identify ideal candidates by looking for clear demonstrations of flexibility: interest in other cultures, knowledge of at least...
...opportunities are so dazzling in China and India that many young workers--particularly those who studied the local language in school or, better yet, are native to the culture--are heading over without expat packages. Jasjit Mangat, 38, had a graduate degree in engineering from Cornell and business-consulting work under his belt when his wife Preet, 36, a cancer researcher, was offered a prestigious fellowship in India in 2003. He quit his job and went along. Though he was born and raised in New Delhi, "India was not part of my career before that," he says. He attracted several...
...headquarters. "I get a lot of résumés from executives just as they're being called back from an assignment," says Benjamin Zhai, head of China recruiting for Egon Zender International, a global executive-placement firm. He advises client companies to design specific new challenges for the returning expat, "or you will lose his motivation...