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Trade with China helps 2.6m US jobs

Trade with China supports some 2.6 million jobs in the United States, including jobs that Chinese firm have created directly in the US, according to a report released on Tuesday by the US-China Business Council.

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Trump's threat to tax companies outsourcing jobs not right strategy: experts

​U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has been threatening higher taxes for U.S. companies shipping jobs overseas, but experts said there are better strategies for saving American jobs.

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Sprint, OneWeb say 8,000 jobs announced by Trump are part of SoftBank pledge

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said telecommunications group Sprint Corp and a U.S. satellite company OneWeb will bring 8,000 jobs to the United States, and the companies said the positions were part of a previously disclosed pledge by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp.

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UN chief highlights importance of health sector employment in sustainable development

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday highlighted health workforce as "a driver of growth" in achieving sustainable development goals, noting that 40 million new health worker jobs will be in demand by 2030.

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S.Korean manufacturers cut jobs for 5th month amid restructuring

South Korean manufacturers cut jobs for five months in a row as the restructuring process continued among troubled shipbuilders and shipping lines in addition to weak exports, a government report showed on Wednesday.

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A pattern is emerging with Trump's deals to save US manufacturing jobs

​Donald Trump said during his campaign that he would, if elected president, convince the air-conditioner manufacturer Carrier not to shutter a plant in Indiana and move over 2,000 jobs to Mexico.

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ING to cut 5,800 jobs in digital plan

Dutch bank ING says it intends to cut about 5,800 jobs in Belgium and the Netherlands over the next five years as part of a cost-cutting plan.

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To many American voters, tough trade rhetoric is a hard sell

​The 2016 presidential race is seen by many as the most divisive and scandalous in the U.S. history.

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Why do so many young S.Koreans give up on enterprise?

A quarter of a million young Koreans are studying to become civil servants in safe, boring, lifelong jobs while only 140,000 want to work in private enterprise.

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Young job seekers hope to find fame

More than half of job seekers 20 years and younger say their ideal job is to be an online celebrity, according to a new report.

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Australian gov't unconcerned by rise in nation's unemployment rate: MP

The Australian government has on Thursday downplayed concerns over a rise in the nation's unemployment rate, despite Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull having based his election campaign on encouraging "jobs and growth".

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Job prospects for new HK graduates decline: high level jobs hard to find and earnings drop

The city has nurtured more workers with a university degree in the past two decades, but less than half of them could take up top managerial and professional jobs and they made less money than older graduates, research from the Legislative Council secretariat has found.

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Australia's jobless rate climbs to 6 pct in January

​Australia's unemployment rate in January has risen to 6 percent from 5.8 percent a month earlier, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday.

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Australia's unemployment rate shocks economists, drops to 20-month low

​Australia's unemployment rate has dropped to an almost two-year low, according to new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday.

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Cambodia launches new jobs strategy for next decade

The Cambodian government has unveiled its national jobs strategy for the next decade, gearing up for the challenges and opportunities of ASEAN integration and the kingdom's continued economic rise, local media reported Friday.

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Three million jobs created in EU due to trade with China: study

​About three million Europeans have jobs because of export from the European Union (EU) to China, according to a study released on Monday here by EU institutions.

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U.S. labor market is less healthy than it appears

​At first glance, the U.S. jobless rate appears to be improving, as unemployment figures are trending downward and the economy continues to add jobs. But a deeper look unveils some troubling truths.