Mismatch between potential and experience confounds many a job-seeker, say managers Mun Ching Yap had gone as a journalist to an airline company to interview its executive official, but her excitement, passion and ability to learn earned her a job as the head of the company's strategic planning department. Ms. Mun, now a columnist and entrepreneur from Malaysia, was 28 years old then. “In Malaysia, the median age of the population is 27,...
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-Live Mint China nearly doubled its rural poverty threshold last week, in a move that will make an estimated 130 million people (or nearly one-tenth of its total population) eligible for various social support schemes funded by the government. China has now tweaked its poverty line for the fourth time in four years. Poverty lines are not set in stone. They have to be regularly changed. This development comes just as the...
More »Huda changes RTI authority, activists oppose by Deevakar Anand
-The Hindustan Times The Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has relieved the local administrators of being the first authority for handling queries under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and shifted the responsibility on the estate officers (EOs), a move which has been opposed by RTI activists. The activists allege that the step has been taken with the "mala fide" intention of creating confusion and dissuading people from following up on...
More »Bhopal gas tragedy: Won't submit to Supreme Court jurisdiction, says Dow Chemicals by Dhananjay Mahapatra
US-based multinational Dow Chemicals has declined to share its wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide Corporation's alleged past residuary liability towards compensating 1984 Bhopal tragedy victims and refused to submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India, which is dealing with the Union government's plea for an additional Rs 7,844 crore to the gas victims. The UCC also took a stand similar to Dow Chemicals in not submitting to the...
More »FDI in retail: More jobs in store for rural youth by Shruti Choudhury & Amiti Sen
Foreign retailers may have to reserve at least half of their jobs in superstores for rural youth and source more than the mandated 30% from micro and small industries as the government tries to salvage the big ticket but controversial economic reform. An official said the government is likely to have a relook at a proposal that seeks to reserve at least 50% of jobs in foreign-owned superstores for those who...
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