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Microsoft China president leaves for Shanda

Microsoft China president Tang Jun is leaving his position at the subsidiary of the world's largest software company to serve as president of China's largest online games operator, Shanda Networking Development Co. Tang leaves Microsoft after less than two years as president and five months after Microsoft created a new position above him – Greater […]

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Foreign invested headhunters

Foreign enterprises are permitted to establish human resources intermediary agencies in the form of equity joint ventures with a Chinese partner from November 1, 2003, according to the newly issued Tentative Provisions on Administration on Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Venture Intermediary Agencies. The minimum registered capital of the agency is US$300,000 and the Chinese partner(s) should […]

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Migrant workers not being paid

China's estimated 94 million migrant workers are owed as much as RMB 100 billion (US$12 billion) in unpaid wages, according to government trade union figures. Up to 70 percent of the unpaid wages are in the building industry, with a large proportion of the remainder in the service industry, especially restaurant and food businesses. Fearing […]

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Consultancy firms form joint venture

Mott McDonald of the UK has formed a joint venture with Beijing Engineering Consulting Corporation to provide services for urban infrastructure. It will offer planning and design services for a variety of projects, with a special emphasis on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. BECC's portfolio includes feasibility studies for Beijing's National Stadium and National Swimming Centre.

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China acts to plug the brain drain

Five categories of people have been restricted from working abroad in new rules issued by the Ministry of Personnel, reported South China Morning Post. The rules were created to control the activities of newly approved joint venture human resource companies. They ban technical specialists and managers working on key national or provincial projects and research […]