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Outsource jobs good, but conditions could be better: UNManila (AFP) July 21, 2010 Global back office outsourcing is creating "reasonably good" jobs in poorer countries, but staff are stressed and some work conditions have to be improved, a United Nations study said Wednesday. The UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) said its study of business process outsourcing (BPO) to India, the Philippines, Brazil and Argentina was the first in-depth look at workplaces in the 90-billion-dollar industry. "On the positive side, and unlike previous assumptions, remote work jobs are o ... read more |
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Islamabad (AFP) July 15, 2010The foreign ministers of nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India are to hold talks in Islamabad Thursday aimed at resuming a tentative peace process derailed by the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The talks are the third high-level contact in six months and the foreign ministers' first meeting since 10 Islamist gunmen left 166 people dead in 60 hours of carnage in India's financial capital two years ag ... more  
Dharamshala, India (AFP) July 14, 2010For those looking for the next spiritual leader of Tibet after the Dalai Lama, the ageing monk's 75th birthday ceremony last week offered some clues. Sat next to the Nobel laureate at the front of the stage was the imposing figure of the Karmapa, a thick-set, 26-year-old with the highest profile among a cast of young lamas who might fill the void that will one day be left. Separated by ... more  
Sriharikota (PTI) Jul 13, 2010The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) workhorse, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15), did it again on Monday with a spectacular multiple-satellite launch that came as a big morale-booster for ISRO scientists, since GSLV-D3's failure last April. Blasting off into a clear morning sky at 9:22 am as scheduled, spewing yellowish plumes from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the 44 ... more |
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Bangladesh charges 824 over mutiny murdersDhaka (AFP) July 12, 2010 Bangladesh on Monday charged 824 people for the massacre of scores of senior army officers during a mutiny in February last year after the country's biggest criminal investigation, a prosecutor said. Seventy-four people, including 57 senior army officers, were killed in a 33-hour siege at a military base in the capital Dhaka in an uprising that briefly threatened the new government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The accused, who will be tried in Bangladesh's civil courts, include the alleged r ... read more |
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