Filipino teachers continue to fly to US for higher pay (Friday, 29 August 2008) Posted by: Always (Hits: 3) A growing number of experienced Filipino teachers are finding teaching jobs in all corners of the world....
Data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration show that Filipino teachers leave to teach in countries of Africa, Europe, Asia and on the islands of South Pacific. They also go to oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Brunei...The Philippines is attractive because the education is American-based. … We are so impressed with the quality and caliber of teachers there," said a human resources director for the Baltimore County, Maryland Public Schools, Bill Boden, in an infozine report in 2004, provided by the embassy.
Cool Old Chinese Villages - a photo tour (Friday, 29 August 2008) Posted by: tomcarter (Hits: 6) The following series of photos, taken from my new book of photography ‘CHINA: Portrait of a People,’ are what I personally consider the most beautiful sites of Old China; those remote villages that have yet to meet China’s wrecking ball, and a proud people contented to proceed with their antediluvian customs as they have for five thousand years.
New China Photobook Promotes Peace & Understanding (Friday, 29 August 2008) Posted by: tomcarter (Hits: 5) Photojournalist Tom Carter traveled for 2 years across the 33 provinces of China to show the diversity of Chinese People in CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author.
Major monastery reopens in Tibet (Saturday, 30 August 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 3) The major Buddhist Drepung Monastery in Tibet reopened this week five months after being shut by the authorities during anti-government riots that rocked the region's capital, a staff member said Friday
Big Bad Beijing Subway - a retrospective (Friday, 29 August 2008) Posted by: tomcarter (Hits: 5) Like seemingly everything else in China prefaced with ‘The World’s…Biggest, Longest, Most Populace, etc.,’ the Beijing Subway is presently the world’s fastest growing rapid transit network. By Tom Carter for Air Macau infight magazine.
The role of the media in Thailand's political turmoil (Thursday, 28 August 2008) Posted by: photo_journ (Hits: 9) An interesting and frank review of the situation in Thailand as it is now, journalism standards and ethics and how one media group in Thailand is abusing its role.
Thai police try to end stand-off (Wednesday, 27 August 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 9)
Thai riot police have surrounded the prime minister's compound to try to evict anti-government protesters who took over the building on Tuesday.