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The demand for home services from expats in China is rising as an increasing number have come to work and live in the country, mainly in big cities.

Around 600,000 expats were living on the Chinese mainland at the end of 2010, and about 231,700 of them had work permits, according to the latest national census and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Samina Hasan is from Pakistan and works at an international organization in Beijing.

She hires a 37-year-old Chinese domestic helper who has worked for her family for three years.

"She does cleaning and washing in my house and sometimes cooks for me and my husband. She knows quite well about our habits and our special days of religious significance," she said.

Hasan said she uses sign language to communicate with the helper.

"I think we could communicate better if I spoke better Chinese and she spoke more English. But it's not a problem."

Hasan said almost all the expats she knows in Beijing need domestic help.

Shi Bohong, general manager of Rikang Home Service Company in Beijing, said his firm provides services to more than 20 expat families.

Shi said many of his clients are employees at embassies who ask domestic helpers to go to their homes in the early morning to make breakfast and then do some chores and laundry until they come back home at 5 or 6 pm in the evening.

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The demand for home services from expats in China is rising as an increasing number have come to work and live in the country, mainly in big cities.

Around 600,000 expats were living on the Chinese mainland at the end of 2010, and about 231,700 of them had work permits, according to the latest national census and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Samina Hasan is from Pakistan and works at an international organisation in Beijing.

She hires a 37-year-old Chinese domestic helper who has worked for her family for three years.

"She does cleaning and washing in my house and sometimes cooks for me and my husband. She knows quite well about our habits and our special days of religious significance," she said.

Hasan said she uses sign language to communicate with the helper.

"I think we could communicate better if I spoke better Chinese and she spoke more English. But it's not a problem."

Hasan said almost all the expats she knows in Beijing need domestic help.

Shi Bohong, general manager of Rikang Home Service Company in Beijing, said his firm provides services to more than 20 expat families.

Shi said many of his clients are employees at embassies who ask domestic helpers to go to their homes in the early morning to make breakfast and then do some chores and laundry until they come back home at 5 or 6 pm in the evening.

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Expats fuel demand for home helpers in China

Those who moved to the eurozone may be struggling to survive, but a surprising survey suggests that the majority of British expats have been relatively unaffected by the economic turmoil of the past five years

According to the annual quality of life index from NatWest International Personal Banking , nearly three-quarters (72 per cent) of expats have not seen their quality of life deteriorate in the last five years.

Although the number who are watching their spending on luxury items has more than doubled, from 17 per cent when the index was first compiled in 2007/8 to 44 per cent today, more expats than ever (83 per cent) said they regarded themselves as between "comfortably off" and quite prosperous.

David Isley, the head of NatWest International Personal Banking, said the results suggested that expats were riding the storm of a struggling global economy.

Expats living in the East in particular, China, the UAE, Hong Kong and Singapore were most likely to say that their financial position had improved dramatically since moving abroad, while expats in the Commonwealth countries of Australia, Canada and New Zealand assessed their situation as having improved significantly".

Unsurprisingly, expats in debt-stalked Western Europe are enjoying less prosperity, with the three European countries focused on in the research France, Spain and Portugal all now significantly lower in the quality of life rankings than they were in 2007/8. All three also registered a drop in "financial confidence" this year, with expats there more likely to return to the UK than from other locations.

The number one country for quality of life was Canada, for the third year running a country which, NatWest pointed out, had fared considerably better than the balance of countries hit by the financial crisis.

Robert Church Taylor, who lives in Dubai, said that the global economic slowdown had a significant effect on expats in the UAE when it began, but that the destination seemed to be finding its feet again as an international financial centre, and is getting busier".

My financial situation has certainly improved since moving here there's a 20-30 per cent salary increase here compared to the UK, and a lower cost of living," he said.

Some expats however said the survey painted an over-optimistic picture.

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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that employees of UK companies who worked outside the UK could raise a claim of unfair dismissal in a UK employment tribunal, signifying far reaching implications for companies that employ UK expats.

The Supreme Court ruled that the employee (who worked outside the UK) has the right to file a case of unfair dismissal owing to his substantial connection to the United Kingdom. This brings clarity to the substantial connection clause for unfair dismissal cases in the private sector.

Facts of the case Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Limited [2012] UKSC 1)

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The Supreme Court Ruling

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that even though the employee worked outside the UK, he could file a case of unfair dismissal in a UK employment tribunal due to his substantial connection to the UK involving his employment.

Read more at http://www.nair-co.com/UK-Employmentlaw.aspx

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Calcutta News.Net Thursday 1st March, 2012 (IANS)

Goan expats across the continents of Europe, Australia and America are calling for a "total change of blood" in Goa's political system ahead of assembly elections Saturday.

Members of the Goan diaspora are beseeching their counterparts back home to vote for Goa's ecology and identity, especially when their forefinger hovers over the electronic voting machine (EVM), milliseconds before the punch down.

Carmen Miranda, former director of global social development agency Panos and a resident of Britain, describes the incumbent government in Goa in four words: "Despicable, irresponsible, incompetent and criminal". And she doesn't have much faith in the political rulers of the past either.

"If any candidate has in the past been a legislator or minister in any Goa government in the past 50 years, don't vote for them... People in Goa are disillusioned and have given up," Miranda told IANS on e-mail.

A news producer with Radio Adelaide in Australia, Frankey Fernandes claims there's simply no "messiah" on Goa's political horizon.

"However, it would be a welcome sign if well educated and people with clean backgrounds came and participated. It would be personally tough for them in this era of 'Goondaraj', however, one can always hope for the best," he said.

Goa goes to polls Saturday to elect a 40-member assembly.

In California, engineer and musician Rajan Parrikar is seething with rage against the political establishment.

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