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Human Trafficking and People Smuggling: Transnational Crimes

Human Trafficking and People Smuggling: Transnational Crimes

The fight against human trafficking was the subject of the very recent Third Bali Regional Ministerial Conference On People Smuggling, Trafficking In Persons and Related Transnational Crime, held on the Indonesian island of Bali and attended by delegates from over 60 countries. The social malaise has reached unprecedented proportions over the recent [...]
In spite of recession’s protectionist stance, offshore business outsourcing increases

In spite of recession’s protectionist stance, offshore business outsourcing increases

There is one most obvious and logical reason why companies increase outsourcing during recession: cheap foreign labor. BPO companies especially in Asia are not threatened to be closed down even with the logically explainable protectionist policies that emerge in a time of economic meltdown. These outsourced offshore offices are confident that they [...]
What Happens Now to the Asian Hegemon in this Financial Crisis?

What Happens Now to the Asian Hegemon in this Financial Crisis?

It has not been long that China entered the free market when the world succumbed to a global financial crisis. It enjoyed some years in lucrative world trade, but now it has to contend swimming in the uncertain seas of economic meltdown. Nonetheless, it has already established itself as a hegemony in the Asian region – what with all the ‘made [...]