Chinese 16-19 year-old girls are more ambitious than their Japanese peers, according to the Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living in Japan, reported the Financial Times. The top five most desired careers of Chinese girls surveyed included president or chief executive of a company, senior management or manager, while Japanese girls wanted to be housewives, […]
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US student numbers increased 90% from 2002 to 2004, according the Institute of International Education, a New York-based think tank, reported the International Herald Tribune. There were 4,737 US students in Chinese universities in the 2003-2004, up from 2,493 in 2002. China is the ninth ranked destination for American students, up from 12th in 2001. […]
Project managers receive twice the pay in China as they do in India, a new survey reveals, reported the BBC. Software engineers, sales staff, financial analysts and factory workers all earn more in China than in India, according a Mercer Human Resource Consulting study. Mercer said average annual salary of Chinese project managers was US$21,112 […]
Under union pressure, Hong Kong employers will pay a minimum wage of US$25.78 a day to 5,000 mainland workers in a bid to revive the territory's weak manufacturing sector. The HK Labour Advisory Board, composed 50-50 of employers and employee representatives, agreed to a government proposal to permit the inflow of textile workers. The trial […]
Less than 10% of Chinese job candidates are suitable to work in a multinational company within the services or export sectors, according to a new study published by McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company's economics think tank. Despite China's 1.6 million engineers, for example, only 160,000 would be able to work in a world-class company, […]