According to a report by Aon, a 2.5 per cent wage increase for entry-level jobs is accompanied by a 3.2 per cent drop in the number of workers employed in such roles. The number of recent graduates finding their first job within six months is also down. While AI is altering the first rung of the career ladder, it is not eliminating future talent.
Conflict erupts on border between the two Koreas. Seoul returns fire, and sends a squadron of fighter planes. President Lee Myung-bak says he wants to avoid an escalation, but that if provocations continue, the answer will be "stronger." China expresses concern.
The institute is run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and has over 400 students, who will loose academic year if school closes. The measure has no legal basis, and the sisters have written a petition in protest sent to all authorities, including the Indonesian President.
The 270th artillery battalion is forcing the inhabitants of Kyunt Thaya (Arakan state) to reconstruct helicopter pads, military barracks and supply lines affected by the cyclone, without payment. They have been living in huts for nearly a month, while humanitarian aid organizations stil scarce.
Through prayers, messages and candles, some 3,000 people commemorate the 57 victims, killed on 23 November last year. Critics complain about the slow pace of the trial against the Ampatuan clan, which carried out the carnage.
The people come from villages in Juban and Irosin and since last night are being hosted in refugee camps. In the case of eruption thousands of people at risk residents in the area of the volcano, but volcanologists believe imminent eruption unlikely.
The General Assembly of the People of God opened yesterday in Ho Chi Minh City, for the first time in the history of this country, bringing together the components of the Church and whole nation. Dialogue with the aim of building communion in the Church and community.
Built secretly near Yongbyon, home of North Korea’s nuclear power station, the new facility is shown to Stanford University scientist Siegfried S. Hecker. US and Japan reacted with harsh words. Both want Pyongyang to come back to six-nation talks.
Plans by the US Federal Reserve to buy up US$ 600 billion will lead to the dollar’s devaluation. The decision is one way to respond to China’s policy to keep the value of the yuan so low that it can colonise the world economy. US economic policy now appears directed at sacrificing the Federal Reserve in order to implement a world currency.
A massive demonstration, involving over 10 thousand participants, organized for today in the commercial centre of the capital. The organizers promise that it will be peaceful, but it is against the law to gather in more than five hundred. May protests of resulted in 90 dead and two thousand injured.
The Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini makes statements of cautious optimism: "We may have saved her." A Pakistani minister yesterday called for a new investigation and a fair examination of the appeal in favour of the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. Even Amnesty International joins the campaign for her liberation.
A source inside North Korea says: "The heir to the Pyongyang throne is bloody minded, but he knows his people very well, and is even gaining consensus for his decimation of local administrators".
The president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference calls on Italy and Europe not to “look away because what is at stake is religious freedom, which is the basis for all other forms of freedom.” A day of solidarity and prayer will be celebrated in all of Italy’s parishes this Sunday. Cardinal mentions Asia Bibi as well.
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