Of the world’s three largest toy companies, only two have women on their Board of Directors and one has none. In the US, Hasbro has Lisa Gersh and Tracy Leinbach while Mattel has Frances Ferguson, Andrea Rich and Kathy White Lloyd, ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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The challenge of attracting more women in to the technology sector has been an issue for some time now, but 2012 saw some interesting steps forward in the gender equality debate. Below are some the biggest and most interesting women in IT ...
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The year 2012 will go down in history as the year when people voted with their wallets and decided that tablets are good enough for work. The success of tablets has driven people to bring their own devices to work. Supporting these ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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Ancient Songs of the Miao Minority is the myth of poetic style that takes creation as its main contents. It is popular in the residence area of Miao, an ethnic group of China. The folk oral literary work is an epic created by the ...
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Storytelling is an art for a select few in Nagqu who ensure the many adventures of the Tibetan hero King Gesar will never be forgotten. Tan Hongkai learns more. In the dimly lit hall of Nagqu Popular Arts Center dozens of Tibetan ...
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New Hampton Metal Fab, a third generation, family-owned business, has always held the needs of their customers and employees to the same high standards. When they built an 8,500 sq ft addition on a northeastern Iowa metal fabrication ...
Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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With a long history, the needlecraft, or nvgong in Chinese, a synonym of nvgong an nvgong, covers various skills such as braiding, weaving, clasping, sewing, embroidering, scissoring, tweaking, pasting etc. For thousands of years, girls ...
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The Chinese Way of Life is quite unique and very different from that of Western cultures in both Traditional and Modern China. Come and take a look! Traditional Way of Life Like all societies of the past, Traditional China had a ...
Although Chinese embraces the concept of equality between man and women, traditionally Chinese families have followed patriarchal lines. The Chinese extended family tends to be more significant in life than that of Western cultures, and ...
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Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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Each year,Triumph International Japan Ltd.creates a unique"concept bra"which are designed with great creativity and originality,with the intention of reflecting current affairs and social trends in mind. The latest concept bra has been ...
Premier Sean Chen announced yesterday(Sept.26)that the basic hourly pay will be raised to NT$109,up from NT$103 now,effective Jan.1,next year.Meanwhile,the basic monthly pay will be enhanced to NT$19,047,on the premise that GDP growth ...
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