Hints and tips:
...The fence still stands in the centre, part sheet metal and part barbed wire, some of it painted with murals. I count at least 30 policemen within a 40-metre radius; it’s just after 9am....
...Lower fuel costs and cheaper local currencies will benefit the cost base, though with a 6-month lag....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...Encourage sales growth — and by this productivity, in local business activities including tourism, local services and start-ups....
...Tea is the main source of employment here: “Local wages do not fall under the Indian minimum wage legislation [Rs300 per day] but under a ‘carve out’ for tea workers, which allows them to be paid as little...
...Mr Jetson responded by appointing more local managers, reducing Lihir’s reliance on fly-in, fly-out workers, training local staff and delivering community projects and new roads, which had been promised...
...It is named after the little Wisconsin town where locals blame the closure of a paper mill by Wausau Paper on pressure from activist fund Starboard Value....
...He is dispatched to Wisconsin to murder a witness, and the nightmare journey that follows is written in an unadorned style that is both poetic and caustic....
...The city has started to accept donations to fund safety inspections of its fire ladders after the fire chief told his workers not to use the equipment except in life-threatening situations because the authorities...
...Police quell migrant riots in China Riot police on Monday poured into a southern Chinese factory town crowded with migrant workers, a day after local officers fired teargas to quell rioting over the abuse...
...Kerin Hope, the FT’s Athens correspondent writes: Two full days of protests in central Athens didn’t deter hundreds of workers at Greece’s state pension funds from holding their own march to parliament...
...• If you’re a salaried worker, why not just go somewhere else?...
...Having taken 18 years to move above $500 a troy ounce, the question is whether gold has staying power. History suggests it does not....
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