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UNLIKE the situation in other Asian countries, the most efficient way for Chinese employers to retain talent is through internal training and development programmes rather than increased pay. According to the Hudson Report for the first quarter of this year, the world-leading company in recruitment, staffing and human resource consulting reveals that Shanghai has become the city with the greatest job mobility on the Chinese mainland.
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- Week in brief
Shanghai
- Weather
After the first intimations of spring warmth, residents will have to resign themselves to more freezing weather beginning Friday, March 11. The lows will drop to 1 degree centigrade below zero, accompanied by sleet and strong winds. Warmer weather should return in time for the new work week on March 14.
- Job moblity on rise
UNLIKE the situation in other Asian countries, the most efficient way for Chinese employers to retain talent is through internal training and development programmes rather than increased pay. According to the Hudson Report for the first quarter of this year, the world-leading company in recruitment, staffing and human resource consulting reveals that Shanghai has become the city with the greatest job mobility on the Chinese mainland.
- Brand-new printing solution
FUJI Xerox announced the opening of its Executive Print Innovation Center (Epicenter), following the establishment of Epicenters in Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore.
- German firm engineers China entry
WITH confidence in its highly qualified engineering teams, its consulting expertise and service skills, Assystembrime Group, a leading French company in the field of engineering and innovation consulting, has recently announced its formal arrival in the Chinese market with the opening of its first Chinese branch company, the Assystembrime Engineering Consulting (Shanghai) Co Ltd, in Shanghai.
- L'Oreal reports double-digit growth
THE world's biggest cosmetics company, L'Oreal, produced double-digit growth in pre-tax profits for the 20th consecutive year, according to its 2004 annual report released recently.
- Breifs
Business travel forum
- Unreported loss
THE body of an overseas student from Shanghai has been found seven months after she was killed in Australia. The victim's family hadn't reported her disappearance during the period, according to the Australian police, the Oriental Morning Post reported.
- Education in uterus
A HUGE, hollow model of a uterus stood in Huaihai Park on March 6 as part of an educational exhibition dedicated to women's health educational activities in 2005, but the huge life-like model stimulated disputes among observers, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Unwanted publicity
EVER since last April, a young woman surnamed Yu has been receiving strange calls. All the callers told her they had come across her mobile phone number in a TV series and just wanted to check to see if it was a real number, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Thieves finger valuable ring
A DIAMOND ring valued at
- Conjoined twins wait for surgery
THE conjoined twins from East China's Anhui Province who share one heart are still too weak to undergo surgery. Doctors say the separation and the artificial heart implant is not expected to take place for at least a month.
- `Solemn mission' to oppose secession
CHINA'S top legislator, Wu Bangguo, said on March 9 in Beijing that enacting the Anti-Secession Law was a solemn mission for the legislature and lawmakers would make a good job of it.
- Numbers of the week
- Unscientific thinking
ONE in every five Chinese believes in oneiromancy (dream divination), and one in every four takes astrology seriously. When it comes to the practice of drawing lots for future telling, half of Chinese engage in the practice.
- Positive influence on world
THE world has a broadly positive view of China's growing global clout, with ratings even surpassing those of the United States and Russia, a recently released survey shows.
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