(ChinaPost.com.tw) – With its share of trade dwindling in the Asia Pacific, the United States (U.S.) is scrambling to drum up support from a skeptical public for a regional trade deal that can boost exports and create jobs.
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – British pharmaceuticals giant, GlaxoSmithKline, is to cut up to 4,000 more jobs as it restructures its workforce and focuses increasingly on emerging markets, The Sunday Times reported.
The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way.
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• GlaxoSmithKline expected to announce thousands of job cuts• Drug-maker likely to shrink workforce in Europe and US while continuing drive into Asia• Analysts predict firm will report pre-tax profits of £8.7bnDrug-maker GlaxoSmithKline is expected to announce thousands of job losses alongside its annual results this week, in the latest wave of a £1.7bn cost-cutting [...]
Don Fishback submits: Just a quick update. The last time GDP grew this much in one quarter was the 4th quarter in 2003. Employment during that period grew 345,000 jobs.Complete Story »
Profile: the former Aer Lingus tough guy has shown an increasing tendency to take court action against opponentsWILLIE WALSH, British Airways’s chief executive, knows how to deal with loss-making carriers struggling to emerge from state ownership.When he was boss of Ireland’s then government-controlled Aer Lingus, he cut 2,500 jobs, ensuring the airline’s survival and establishing [...]
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday inaugurated a project for laying 17 km of railway tracks in West Bengals Nandigram and promised jobs or houses to those whose land may be acquired for the project.
Scott Lee Cohen, Democratic Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Brings Hope to Illinois
CHICAGO, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Scott Lee Cohen helped put Illinois’ resident Raymond Hancock back to work. Scott Lee Cohen, Democratic candidate for Lt….
President Barack Obama on Friday proposed $33 billion in tax credits to coax small businesses into hiring workers as he underscored his commitment to pushing job creation to the top of his agenda.
Prime minister seeks peace amid threat of general strike for trying to shunt 12,000 workers into lower-paid, temporary jobsMilitant tobacco workers in Turkey are on the verge of an unlikely victory over the government after a bitter industrial dispute marked by hunger strikes, violent clashes with riot police and a siege of the governing party [...]