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International students in B.C. get a break on work permits

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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International students in B.C. get a break on work permits
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government on Tuesday announced a pilot expansion of the Off-Campus Work Permit Program for international students in B.C., according to a news release.

Effective immediately, international students studying at eligible private post-secondary institutions in B.C. can now apply for off-campus work permits.

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Viet Nam News

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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VIENTIANE — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday called on countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to develop transport corridors into economic corridors and step up their joint fight against poverty and hunger.

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Discrimination in Japan

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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asahi.com : Cover Story: Foreign input - ENGLISH

“A Japanese doing the same job as I gets twice as much, and that’s wrong.”photoForeign workers march in the streets of Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, demanding equality in employment.(YOSHIHIRO OGINO/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

These are the words of a Chinese national who came to Japan to learn a skill, discovered he was earning a pittance and joined a union in the hope of securing at least the minimum wage.

The annual Shunto spring labor offensive, a movement long associated with workers in red armbands screaming anti-establishment slogans at rallies, is under way.

But what is different now is that many unskilled foreign nationals who came to Japan to learn job skills feel they are being taken advantage of and have joined labor unions to demand minimum wages and other basic rights, such as social insurance coverage.

They include Chinese and people from developing countries who come for industrial trainee programs under which they spend their first year to learn skills, followed by work under a two-year employment contract as an intern with the accepting companies.

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