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Bloomberg: White-Collar Visa Workers Take 2/3 of New Tech Jobs Each Year Two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs go to compliant foreign guest-workers, not to the young American professionals who may create a new wave of establishment-shaking companies, according to a report from Bloomberg. In 2018, “the U.S. had between 96,000 and 143,000 openings in IT occupa*tions that typically went to candidates with a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering,” said the March 10 report...

Expert says Chinese brands key to consumption By MO JINGXI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-12 09:39 Share CLOSE The Happy Valley theme park in Hubei provinces capital, Wuhan, is crowded with visitors during the Lantern Festival on Feb 26. [Photo provided to China Daily] To promote domestic consumption of high-quality products and services and thereby stoke high-quality economic development, it is necessary to further boost domestic bra...

CBP: 100K Southwest Border ‘Encounters’ Show 28 Percent Increase in February U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports more than 100,000 “encounters” in February — up 28 percent from January. The agency adds that 25,000 of the latest crossers show prior apprehension records. The Houston Chroniclereported that the Biden Administration is downplaying the surge in migration: The Biden administration acknowledged some responsibility for the surge on Wednesday, saying it is at least in part a...

64K Migrants Apprehended in Texas-Based Border Sectors in Feb. — Up 27 Percent from Jan. Border Patrol agents assigned to the five Texas-based sectors apprehended nearly 64,000 migrants in February. This represents an increase of more than 27 percent from the previous month. Agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors apprehended 63,734 migrants in February, according to the Southwest Border Land Encounters Report released by U.S. Customs and Border...

Success spurs Oppo toward high-end smartphones By MA SI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-12 09:41 Share Pedestrians walk past an Oppo mobile phone store in Shanghai. [WU JUN/FOR CHINA DAILY] Chinese smartphone maker Oppo said on Thursday that it will step up its efforts to expand its presence in the high-end smartphone market, after a latest industry report showed that it had become the top smartphone brand in China in January. Liu Bo, presiden...

By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-03-12 13:51 Share CLOSE Workers weld at a workshop of an automobile manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou city, east Chinas Shandong province, Feb 28, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] The International Monetary Fund welcomes Chinas putting "greater focus on quality rather than the quantity of growth" and committed to greener development with a specific carbon neutrality goal, an IMF ...

Proposal for state buyback of Cook Inlet setnet permits advances in Legislature Share on Facebook Print article Legislation aimed at easing tensions and fishing pressure in one of the state’s most popular fisheries is already on the move this session after dying in the COVID-shortened session last year. Without objection, the Senate Resources Committee advanced Sen. Peter Micciche’s Senate Bill 29 to the Finance Committee March 8; the bill authorizes the state to buy back nearly half of...

Oracle Corporation is currently at $66.07, down $6.05 or 8.39% -- On pace for largest percent decrease since March 16, 2020, when it fell 10.87% -- Currently down two consecutive days;... | March 12, 2021

Europe News: Using data from January 17 to March 6 from Israel's national vaccination campaign, Pfizer-Biontech found that prevention against asymptomatic disease

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