Hong Kong surpassed Tokyo as the most expensive city to build anything in Asia, as a post-pandemic labour shortage exacerbated the scarcity of skilled workers in an ageing society, inflating …
“But I believe we should choose very carefully with the people who come to Japan in the future,” he said. “We need skilled workers, but we do not need people …
“Youth are questioning Japan’s economic outlook,” said Yuya Kikkawa, an economist at Meiji Yasuda Research Institute. “Living conditions are far tougher than the headline inflation figure suggests.” The Bank of …
Losing nearly a thousand soldiers a day isn’t stopping the Russians from launching mass attacks on Ukraine, the UK’s defence ministry said in an intelligence dispatch on Sunday. “Since the …
Australia’s universities are a magnet for foreign students, especially from Asia. The share of international student enrolments in higher education is much higher than in other advanced economies. At some …
This is the value Malaysia’s new semiconductor task force wants to capture. The good news is that Malaysia already has a mature chip cluster. Major chip makers including NXP, Infineon …
Japan’s foreign worker population broke the two million mark for the first time ever, underlining the nation’s growing reliance on external manpower to mitigate its deepening labour shortage. The number …
Quebec business owners have about a year and a half to ensure all signs on businesses, aside from the company name, must be predominately in French. Also, loopholes are being closed …
In the early days of January, at a U.S. military base in Germany, Ukrainian military planners huddled with their counterparts from the United States and Europe for a week-long war …
Japan would need 6.7 million foreign workers by 2040 to meet its own projected economic growth rates, according to a 2022 report by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Workers assemble …