Mike Magee informs us that jobs are likely to go in mainland China after Taiwanese outsourcer Hon Hai put up the wages of staff but warned that meant increased automation in Taiwan today.According to the Wall Street Journal, Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou minimised the impact of putting up wages at its factories in the wake of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Jamaica Observor’s PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT writesfrom MONTEGO BAY, St James – Last week Sunday’s hijacking of a CANJET charter flight at the Sangster International airport here will cost the country additional advertising dollars to restore confidence in the Jamaican tourism product.
Bemoaning the incident, Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett Friday night issued a national appeal for better behaviour, [...]
An interesting artcile was posted recently on a Reuters blog where they tell us that Germany is understandably proud of its renewable energy sector — wind and solar power supply more than 15 percent of the country’s electricity. Its Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has fuelled its rapid growth over the past decade and been copied by [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Susan, if you’re reading this, please don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Stop the self-improvement now.
From the New Scotsman 27 April 2009 Helen Martin writes:
“Oh well, that’s torn it. Someone at Britain’s Got Talent forgot to explain the rules to West Lothian songstress Susan Boyle.
They can’t blame Susan. Like any 48-year-old woman who [...]
A farmer and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose.
One day the farmer discovered a large heavy egg. At first he thought someone had played a trick on him by replacing the egg with a stone.
However, as he got closer and as the sun shone through the barn door the egg [...]