Expats Expat Look to China
At the end of 2003 there were 90,000 expats living and working in China. Today the number is closer to 220,000 and some estimates guess the number is more like 700,000 when you look at expats working under different visas. The majority of expats are from the USA or Japan. “At the end of 2003, almost 90,000 foreigners had been officially employed in China with legitimate work permits, said Gao Lin, a director at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. According to the latest figures released by the ministry, the number of officially employed foreigners has increased to 217,000 foreigners till the end of last year, an increase of 7,000 persons from 2007. …In recent years, the Japanese and Americans ranked as the top two nations with the largest labor forces in Shanghai, according to Sun Hande, Director of the Shanghai Job Center for Foreigners. While workers from Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries used to fill the third spot, South Korea has since increased its work force presence in China in recent years.”
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An Expat Tale Hits The Cinema
An expat in Buenos Aires has written an expat tale that has turned into a new premiered movie. Expats around the world can appreciate not only Matt, the writer’s, story, but also his film. “He arrived in BA in 2007 as “I wanted some fresh air in life. I’d been to film school in LA and then got an assistant’s job with quite high stress levels right after that, and I was fed up with going to parties on Saturday nights and talking about who you know, ‘can you get me into this meeting’ or ‘I’m doing better than you’. Los Angeles is a very insular world so I was desperate. After doing a post-grad in writing for screen and television at the University of Southern California (USC), I came here basically to concentrate on my writing career and to escape Los Angeles.” Last Night… is a contender for the title of ultimate expatriate film for several reasons. First, its principle roles are played by foreigners based here permanently — a North American leading man is supported by a Kiwi actor. Second, the driving force is from the UK, thanks to its British director and producer David Labi, and script writer Matt. Some financial backing came from independent sources in the US, and of course the plot revolves around an expatriate who runs into trouble on his final evening in the Argentine capital.”
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