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Germany
German unemployment unchanged but signals weak performance
The German labour market usually picks up in September after the summer, but unemployment decreased much less than usual in…
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News
Commentary: This is my biggest productivity mistake
DON’T LET EMAILS REPLACE REAL WORK My second productivity confession is that I respond to email too quickly. I realise…
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Fed gets green light on rate cuts as US job growth disappoints
Federal Reserve policymakers got a green light to start a round of interest rate cuts this month after a government…
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Germany
Scholz visits Meyer Werft shipyard as company struggles to stay afloat
Meyer Werft, one of the world’s biggest cruise ship builders, will receive government support to patch up its budget deficit.…
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Asia
‘Rotten-tail kids’: China’s rising youth unemployment breeds new working class
BEIJING: Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept…
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Germany
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp holding major restructuring talks
The firm’s supervisory board will discuss the independence of its steel division in the face of fierce competition from Asia…
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Asia
China’s youth seek work in sectors traditionally considered as blue-collar as mindsets shift
THE POST-2000s GENERATION Ms Feng and her husband are from the post-2000s generation, the first of whom entered the job…
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Asia
Will India’s new US$24b plan to boost employment pay off?
INTERNSHIP PLAN For those looking for work now, the right opportunities have proven difficult to come by. “There are seemingly…
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Asia
More youths leaving Pakistan in massive brain drain amid low salaries, lack of jobs
UNABLE TO THRIVE OR PROVIDE Pakistan’s economy was in turmoil last year, with inflation rising to almost 30 per cent.…
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Asia
Record number of graduates set to enter China’s workforce amid economic headwinds
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT In his latest government work report, Chinese Premier Li Qiang called for a multi-pronged approach to stabilise the…
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