Hints and tips:
...Singapore, whose own population is ageing, has become a favoured home for Asia’s millionaires, prompting local pushback to foreign workers and immigration....
...security law in 2020 meant this was no longer a big concern....
...All of a sudden, someone comes along and says, ‘it’s no good’,” says Abdul Majid Kinani, 54, a Moroccan migrant who tends cattle at a local dairy and leads prayer time at the Islamic centre....
...The Tennessee Valley Authority project of the 1930s was successful in large part because of input from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which had developed in tandem with the new technology...
...The number of strikes involving at least 1,000 workers rose nearly 50 per cent to 23 in 2022, according to labour department data. It was the highest number of big strikes in two decades....
...But the anticipated arrival of TSMC in the autumn could further strain the already tight local labour market....
...According to Pascal Leroy, director-general of the WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) Forum, an international association of e-waste compliance schemes, 42 per cent of palladium comes from...
...The country is far from meeting the conditions of its $44bn IMF programme and has no access to international capital markets....
...Chikohomero said the president had “no strategy but a string of survival tactics that are short-term and immediate.”...
...The official number of international tourist arrivals doubled from 1998 through 2019, to 2.4bn a year....
...“The virus has died down, the children can go to school and we can travel,” said Zhang Baolian, a 70-year-old former electrical worker, who was visiting a bakery on Nanjing Road, the city’s most famous shopping...
...There’s no real justification for that. And it seems a bit of a no-brainer to get rid of it....
...A resounding defeat for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in a local and regional vote in May prompted him to call a snap election on July 23 — and it could give Gibraltar an unwelcome new interlocutor in Madrid...
...At least 43 people died, slightly more than half of them Nepali trekking guides and other tourism workers. The true number has never been firmly established....
...It was the first successful targeted assassination carried out by Iran in western Europe in over 23 years....
...These undercurrents of anger against the west risk feeding local support for Russia, already highly visible on the streets of Mitrovica....
...there’s no clear sense of direction yet,” says Tarik Yousef, director at the Qatar-based Middle East Council on Global Affairs....
...No one really does these in Europe any more....
...A year ago, Georg Bruederl, 49, who owns an electrical engineering business, had found a reliable looking buyer for his three-bedroom family house in Munich, and agreed an acceptable price of about €5mn....
...On the porch of a rundown breezeblock home in Johannesburg’s largest township, the three men pulled on their disguise of municipal workers’ coveralls, then shared a smoke....
...But Anya has no plans to return to Moscow, choosing a local pay and accommodation package in Zurich and placing her six-year-old twin girls in a local school....
...production for local consumption in growing markets (particularly among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)....
...Its local boss, who is 23, was not even born during the Troubles....
...At 23, he was also a hardened criminal....
...Explosions near the plant’s switchboard this month caused the shutdown of its electrical power transformer and damaged radiation detectors at the site....
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