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FDI Companies 10 September, 2010 - More than 95 percent of employees in the foreign direct investment (FDI) companies in the country are Bhutanese, but the top managerial positions are still held by expatriates, says a recent department of labour survey. www.kuenselonline.com
PhillyDeals: Survey: Employers brace for 9% rise in health-insurance costs U.S. employers expect health-insurance costs to rise an average 9 percent next year, up from 7 percent in 2010, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health in Washington of 75 big corporations. www.philly.com
Which Survey Service Offers Better Privacy? Zoomerang and SurveyMonkey provide free and paid survey-creation tools. Here's what you need to know about how they handle the data they collect. SurveyMonkey - Zoomerang - Security - Website - Business www.pcworld.com
Fat cat pensions 'worth millions' Directors of big companies enjoy hugely generous pensions while cutting workers' pension entitlements, the TUC alleges. www.bbc.co.uk
Emerging New Fiduciary Trends and Developments: Systems of Mass Deception vs. Systems of Enhanced Diligence (September ... Emerging New Fiduciary Trends and Developments: Systems of Mass Deception vs. Systems of Enhanced Di blogs.forbes.com
Industrial Production Accelerates, Adding to Rate Pressure on Central Bank India’s industrial output growth quickened in July, increasing pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates next week for the fifth time this year. www.bloomberg.com
Nearly 400 Medicines and Vaccines in Development to Fight Infectious Diseases BOSTON----Critical challenges remain in the centuries-old battles against infectious diseases, particularly as bacteria and viruses mutate and as the threat of bioterrorism grows. Responding to this need, America’s biopharmaceutical research companies this year have 395 new medicines and vaccines in the pipeline to fight infectious diseases. biz.yahoo.com
Best Small-Business Workplaces 2010 Find out who made our list of the best small companies for employees -- and how these 5 made it to the top. biz.yahoo.com
Health Insurance Costs Are Up; Employers Pay Less There are shifts under way in how Americans pay for health insurance. For one thing, the cost of health insurance is higher, both for individuals and for those who pay to cover their entire families, according to the Kaiser Foundation's newest Health Benefits Survey : www.poynter.org
Who Would Benefit From Extending Bush-Era Tax Cuts? Listen to the Audio Whether the tax cuts enacted under the latest Bush presidency should be extended past the Dec. 31 expiration date is slated to be a key policy issue debated as elections approach. Jeffrey Brown gets two views about extending the cuts and whether it would mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans. JIM LEHRER: And to one of the biggest of the policy debates of the coming months ... www.pbs.org
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