Word: fiji
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...reasons (to boost tax revenue) and philosophical ones (to make the tax code less favorable to the wealthy). Yet each time the idea has surfaced it has been swatted away amid public outrage and the battle cries of every real estate lobbyist not sunning at his second home on Fiji. This time the outrage may be even more shrill, given the fears of a real estate bubble about to burst. "We are raising the loudest possible alarms," said Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors, which along with the Mortgage Bankers Association and other industry players concludes that...
...Facing similar youth bulges in their populations, and a paucity of jobs, South Pacific leaders - notably Papua New Guinea's Sir Michael Somare and Fiji's Laisenia Qarase - have been lobbying the region's wealthy states to open up their labor markets. Issuing short-term visas for unskilled workers is not a new idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick...
...long holiday in New Zealand. While the money they wire back to the islands is no doubt welcomed by their families, these exiles are among their countries' best educated and most entrepreneurial citizens. A recent World Bank study found that more than half of all tertiary graduates from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa were working overseas...
...broadband. "There's nothing little about what we're doing in China," says Ueberroth, who in her 11 years with the league has negotiated television and sponsorship deals in Mexico City, Moscow and New Delhi. (When not selling hoops in faraway places, she visits them, having scuba-dived in Fiji and Belize.) Sports run in Ueberroth's blood: her father Peter organized the 1984 Olympics, ran Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989 and is now the chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee. --By Sean Gregory...
...Pure Fiji's products leave you feeling good, so will its relationships with the community. Since its founding 10 years ago, the company has trained villagers in the Namosi Highlands?on the main Fijian island of Viti Levu?in the preparation of plant extracts and the natural paper used in Pure Fiji's packaging. The company also funds scholarships for its employees' children...