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Microelectronics Corporation have already gone back to normal hours, and the Hsinchu Science Park Administration predicts that only around 25% of hi-tech park professionals will be on forced leave in April. Back in London, John Philpott, the public-policy director of a lobby group called the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, sees the rise of short-work programs and pay cuts in industry as a natural reaction to the crisis. In the case of accountants KPMG, he says, "if you have a highly skilled workforce that you don't want to lose, it can make...
...pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
Bloomberg, the green billionaire, won't be mayor forever. (Presumably.) That means PlaNYC, which runs to 2030, will have to remain relevant long after its political patron is gone. But PlaNYC is built to last, even during a recession, because it encompasses far more than just feel-good greenery. Agarwalla, who has studied why Philadelphia declined compared with New York in the 20th century, believes sustainability will be the key to urban success in the 21st century. "We didn't develop this plan out of a desire to be green," he says. "This is crucial for its economic and environmental...
...Washington, capture reality. Kim is 68, and though it is thought he has made a reasonable recovery, he has apparently not resumed all his duties as North Korea's absolute ruler. That is focusing the minds of analysts on two related questions: Who will succeed Kim when he is gone? And how will North Korea behave...
...market town 19 miles (30 km) south of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Last year, he agreed to pay a recruitment agency $2,400 to win a position on the production line of an auto parts manufacturer. But in the wake of the financial crisis, that job is gone, and Hussein, like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers around the world, is stranded far from home, saddled with debts that will take years to repay...