On the surface, a jeepney is a colourful WW2 vehicle that has been repurposed as public transportation in the Philippines, but it also holds a deeper meaning and source of pride for Filipinos, being symbolic of the resiliency, ingenuity, and resourcefulness of the Filipino people. LBB> What...
It is important to spend enough person hours laying the groundwork so that your new venture will add maximum value without nasty surprises. Do also make sure you shop around enough to get a good idea of the differences between outsourcing management companies and what they offer, including how ...
Many Japanese people don’t have the opportunity to communicate with foreigners, so when they do, they tend to change their attitude a bit. Foreigners react in different ways to this — some feel they are being treated special, while others are uncomfortable. So says the w...
With the exception of her, one theme unites every expat I speak to: their joy at having staff to do the work that would clog their lives up Back Home. Everyone, it seems, has a maid. The maids used to be predominantly Filipino, but with the recession, Filipinos have been judged to b...
I got married and came here to work for our head office in South Korea and I’ve experienced the same thing; we always get masks to put on so that we do not take bad air here, we need to be awared of crazy traffic (Vietnamese people don’t seem to take care of pedestrians (Ca...