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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees calculated that in 2006, the most frequent asylum seekers abroad were citizens of Iraq, China, and Russia. The most attractive countries for…
Since mid-March, a mortgage crisis has been gaining strength in the United States. The number of Americans for whom a home on credit has become unaffordable is growing rapidly, and large financial…
After living in Toronto for about four years, my family, due to circumstances, ended up in the province of Manitoba. Here I learned about the existence of a special Manitoba immigrant selection…
Russia is seeing a rise in the popularity of online stores. Noting the small share of online trade in the turnover of large retail chains, Gazeta.Ru cites data from the search portal Yandex…
Plastic money will appear in Hong Kong. The first experimental batch of banknotes with a face value of 10 Hong Kong dollars (about $1.3) will appear in mid-2007 and will be used alongside paper…
Of course, not everyone dreams of having a home outside their beloved homeland. But if the flight of your 'foreign' dream is stopped solely by economic considerations, then it's in vain. Even a quick…
The German government has determined the conditions of stay for foreigners who have been denied refugee status. A compromise was reached on March 13 during hours-long negotiations among the leaders…
Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania conducted the first study on how often black Americans and immigrants enroll in US universities. For the United States and many other…
Only an uninitiated person might think that working in a hotel is a simple matter. Is it worth spending time and money on education, only to then sit at the reception desk, clean rooms, keep an eye…
The last divided capital of Europe – Nicosia – will soon cease to be so. The wall erected between the two parts of the city – Turkish and Greek – has been decided to be demolished.
If you take into account the money that now increasingly has to be paid in summer for renting a dacha or a house somewhere near the capital, it makes sense to consider renting temporary housing in…