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1. Business: Chazen Institute of International Business
2. Business: China's Growth is Solid & Real
3. Business: Doing business with Russia
4. Business: Extreme overcrowding in homes for immigrants to
the USA
5. Business: Highrise apartments & flats for Nairobi spell
disaster
6. Business: South African Economy
7. Business: South African Flower Industry
8. Business: What kind of idiot falls for these Nigerian Scams?
9. Business: Work Permits for South Africa
10. Education: African Leadership
11. Education & Sports: London to hold the 2012 Summer Olympics
12. Education: The Global Museum
13. Education: Understanding Computers
14. Immigration: Does it pay to have dual citizenship?
15. Immigration: Illegals still pouring into the USA
16. Travel: How to control and help the wildlife in Kenya?
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1. Business: Chazen Institute of International Business
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Much
of the world of business has been transformed by the processes
of globalization, with many transnational corporations having
multiple headquarters located in far-flung corners of the world.
Recognizing this important transformation, Jerome A. Chazen
(an alumnus of Columbia University's Business School) offered
a donation to begin the Institute of International Business
that bears his name.
First-time
visitors to the site will want to peruse the "News &
Events" section on the homepage straight away, as it offers
insights into the recent activities of the Institute. The real
highlight of the site is the Chazen Web Journal of International
Business, which contains papers and research reports on a wide
range of topics, including management, finance, and entrepreneurship.
The
site is rounded out by the information it provides on grants
and prizes awarded by the Chazen Institute. Visit
this site also used by the Delamere Group.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout
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2. Business: China's Growth is Solid & Real
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China has emerged in plain view on the world stage in the past
five years as "the workshop of the world", a phrase
that conjures up images of sweatshops and cheap labour. But
the image is deeply misleading as it suggests that China's comparative
advantage is only a cheap and docile labour force.
Jonathan West, associate professor of Harvard University's Graduate
School of Business Administration, calls this view "dangerously
wrong". China's advantage is not in cheap, unskilled labour.
"Its fundamental advantage is cheap, skilled labour,"
he says.
China is graduating 500,000 engineers a year, he says, and they
are being paid as little as US$2 000/ year, not to work on production
lines in so-called sweatshops but with the aim of making many
of the high value-added products now manufactured elsewhere.
To read this full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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3. Business: Doing business with Russia
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Corruption
in Russia has spiraled out of control, a report by a respected
Russian think-tank says. INDEM says the Russian state itself
is "the country's biggest racketeer", with the shadow
economy at least twice as large as the state budget.
The report says any interaction between citizens and the country's
bureaucracy will inevitably involve corruption in the form of
paying bribes. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: Extreme overcrowding in homes for immigrants
to the USA
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On
a street in Syosset, New York, in a single-family house currently
listed for sale at $710,000, live at least 16 South African
workers employed by the exclusive Glen Oaks Country Club in
Old Westbury.
At
the other end of Long Island, a few doors down from a new multimillion-dollar
waterfront home in East Hampton, neighbors have complained about
a rented house so crowded that its septic tank overflowed onto
the street finding as many as 64 men living there. To read the
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: Highrise apartments & flats for Nairobi
spell disaster
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Low density housing in old, dilapidated estates in Kenya's urban
centres should be knocked down to pave the way for the development
of highrise flats to increase the supply of housing in the country.
This is one of the key recommendations of the National Land
Policy Formulation Process (NLPFP) on how to solve the problem
of lack of suitable land for housing in the country's urban
centres. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: The local authorities in Kenya should
check out the results of this type of housing when built years
ago in Liverpool and Manchester in England, they produced nothing
but gang warfare and drug dealing. Is this what the authorities
want in Nairobi? Please send your protests to our email address
and we will forward your comments in our report to the Nairobi
local government. Also read our web
page on housing for the future.
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6. Business: South African Economy
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Fifteen
years ago nobody could have predicted that SA would emerge as
a strong market-orientated economy with a vibrant and independent
private sector, fast integrating into the world economy.
Everybody's expectation then (including the ANC's) was that
the new government would impose a hardcore form of socialism.
But the ANC changed progressively during the 1990s. And so did
business, which slowly began to shed its apprehensions and suspicions.
To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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7. Business: South African Flower Industry
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Analysts
have hailed steady growth in the national flower industry despite
pressure from a strong rand and competition from Kenya, Zimbabwe
and other African countries.
While
growth in the sector seems to have leveled off, SA still exports
14 times more flowers than it imports. To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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8. Business: What kind of idiot falls for these Nigerian
Scams?
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LAGOS
(Reuters) - A Nigerian court has sentenced a woman to two
and half years in jail after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges
in the country's biggest e-mail scam case involving a $242 million
fraud the anti-fraud agency said on Saturday.
To
read the full report, and have a good laugh, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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9. Business: Work Permits for South Africa
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Many
South African businesses face skills shortages. The Department
of Home Affairs last week promulgated the immigration regulations
that go with the 2003 immigration act. These regulations guide,
among other things, the issuing of work permits. To read this
full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
Editor's Note: Visit the Delamere
Employment Services page for employment in South Africa.
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10. Education: African Leadership
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Are
the social, economic and political problems in some African
countries due to a lack of enlightened leadership?
A
conference has been arranged by the University
of South Africa (UNISA) in Pretoria, and the main topic
will be, "With corruption being as prolific as it is on
the continent, Mr Bwakira says that the issues of good governance
and civil society participation as a democratic principle will
be discussed." To read more, visit
this link.
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11. Education & Sports: London to hold the 2012 Summer
Olympics
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News
of London's victory delighted flag-waving supporters who had
gathered in Trafalgar Square and Stratford in the East End of
London, where the new Olympic park will be built.
To
read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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12. Education: The Global Museum
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While
there are numerous sites about different museums of all sizes
around the world, there are also numerous sites about the wide
world of museology and exhibition techniques.
One
such site is the Global Museum, which provides information about
important and new exhibits around the globe, along with job
postings from a wide range of museums. Persons interested in
a course of study on museums would do well to look at the site's
listings of internationally accredited museum studies courses,
which is offered in the Study area of the website. Visit
this site.
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13. Education: Understanding Computers
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Billed
as the "Digital Goddess", the radio host Kim Komando
has been providing assistance to those befuddled by computer
technology for many years, and her website will prove to be
most valuable to those looking for assistance in this area.
First-time visitors to the site will want to peruse some of
her recent columns, which address such timely topics as hacking,
preserving digital images, and securing laptops from theft.
The homepage also offers access to helpful shareware that she
has found valuable. Those guests who find the site helpful may
also want to sign up to receive her tip of the day or her newsletter.
Also,
the site has a "Kim On-Air" map, which allows interested
parties to find out which radio station in their area broadcasts
her program. Visit
this informative site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
Editor's
Note: Delamere
Education offers a series of online courses on computer
hardware and software. Visit our web site for online
computer courses.
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14. Immigration: Does it pay to have dual citizenship?
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Some
are taking on another citizenship because they feel an emotional
bond to the homeland of their ancestors. Some are immigrants
who want to retain their ties to the old country, to take control
of family land there, to vote or even to run for office.
Others
do it because acquiring a passport from one of the 25 countries
in the European Union allows them to travel freely, work, go
to school or retire in any EU country. And everybody likes the
convenience: They can stand in shorter lines at airports and
borders.
There
are many other very good reasons why it is useful to have dual
citizenship. Two of our senior partners hold triple citizenship
for business reasons. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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15. Immigration: Illegals still pouring into the USA
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WASHINGTON,
DC - The number of people from countries other than Mexico
arrested trying to cross the U.S. southern border has almost
doubled this year, the head of the U.S. border patrol told the
U.S. Congress on Tuesday.
David
Aguilar told the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee
on homeland security the United States was continuing to experience
a rising influx of what he termed OTMs -- other than Mexicans
-- trying to enter the country illegally. "Apprehensions
are running at a rate of 175 percent for fiscal year 2005 over
FY 2004's record number of OTM apprehensions on the southwest
border," Aguilar said.
In
all, the border patrol has detained 919,000 illegal immigrants
so far this year of 2005, and of these 119,000 were non-Mexicans.
Of course we ask, How many did they NOT prevent from illegally
crossing the border? Officials state they have a success rate
of detaining only 1 in 8 that cross the border.
Editor's
Note: For legal ways to get into the USA see our immigration
page.
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16. Travel: How to control and help the wildlife in Kenya?
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The
problem is not that there are too many elephants or crocodiles
or buffaloes in some parts of Kenya, but rather that there were
too many Kenyans, that our country has a notoriously high population
growth rate, and so the animals were being denied the space
they needed by this rapidly expanding human population. Why
not start to cull the humans? To read this interesting report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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"You
must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated
by short-term failures." ~ Charles C. Noble
