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Business In Thailand - Part 1: The Challenge

2008-09-05 14:16:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...foreigners visting or working in Thailand. I can read (slowly) and speak better than 99.99+ percent of all foreigners in Thailand. For this reason, I thought it wasthe right thing to doto redirect my career to a new challenge in the business climate of Thailandas Icontinue to improve my foreign language skills. I wanted to help Thailand...
 
Tags: thailand, visit thailand, thailand progressin, thailand chargethousands, lifein thailand, foreigners, foreigners canown, businessin thailand, business
 
 
 
 
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Business In Thailand - Part 1: The Challenge

2008-09-04 14:16:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...foreigners in Thailand; so, I thought it was time to redirect my career to a new challenge in the business climate of Thailand This was no small decision.Your career changes dramatically when you give up a successful consulting practice in the US and dive into business in a foreign land for a new challenge. I can frankly tell you that often...
 
Tags: challenge, business, thailand, business challenge, global business slowdown, thailand chargethousands, foreigners, money, money flows
 
 
 
 
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Death Toll of Hotel Bombing in Pakistan Continues to Rise

2008-09-25 03:39:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...foreigners to meet U.S. military personnel were attending the Marriott when the bomb exploded. The horrific injuries were not limited to foreigners however, as many Muslims were breaking their Ramadan fast and eating there at the time Of course, the terrorists have shown us in the past that they are not opposed to killing other Muslims as...
 
Tags: islamabad, islamabad marriott, marriott, marriott review, counter surveillance measures, foreigners, hostile regions, vehicular access, overseas location
 
 
 
 
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Field Notes from Xiamen, China

2008-01-14 04:37:01 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...foreigners are warmly welcomed, you can access the entire Internet andthe government does not have a system todisgorge you of your money in foreign exchange So the bottom line of this field report is that Chinacan bea quite a hostile place for foreigners. Beware
 
Tags: change chinese yuan, chinese yuan, usd, change usd, change, thai baht, china, cny, foreign exchange
 
 
 
 
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Matthew Alexander on Torture

2008-12-30 06:37:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our...
 
Tags: torture, reason foreign fighters, foreign fighters, torture policy, fighters, iraq, suicide bombers, suicide, al-qaeda
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #25: One Day in April

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2008-04-01 15:10:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...foreigners and last week an American-owned hotel was bombed. The crowd around you seems anxious for some reason. As you sip a beer, the bar suddenly plunges into darkness. As you reach into your pocket for a small flashlight you hear a strange but familiar sound. Click the play button below to see what happens next What do you do? Share...
 
Tags: bar suddenly plunges, familiar sound, play button, capital city, karaoke bar, reach, attacks, pocket, comments
 
 
 
 
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Security ahead of risk at the border

2008-05-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b41c24 in Network World on Security
 
...foreigners alike. With no cause or suspicion, the CBP may inspect, copy or seize data devices carried by anyone returning to the U.S. I'm not convinced that passive compliance is the best response to this situation
 
Tags: computer data held, business travelers, foreigners alike, cbp, border protection, passive compliance, circuit court, data devices, sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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America's CTO

2008-11-08 16:08:05 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...foreigners who study engineering here to stay here What we do is bring foreign nationals to the worlds greatest universities. We train them, invest in them and make them go home, he said. What kind of national strategy is that? So I would staple a green card to the diploma While it is amazing that it took until 2009 for the US to have a...
 
Tags: energy, produce energy, renewable energy versus, cto, clean energy technology, clean, doerr, john doerr, technology
 
 
 
 
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Lessons from Mumbai

2008-12-01 08:03:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreigners at the border, bag screening on public transportation, anything. Even metal detectors and threat warnings didn't do any good: "If I look at what we had, which all of us complained about, it could not have stopped what took place," he told CNN. "It's ironic that we did have such a warning, and we did have some measures He said...
 
Tags: mumbai terrorist attacks, attacks, people, armed people intent, people focus, focus, terrorists, terrorism, terrorist
 
 
 
 
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Jim Harper Responds to My Comments on Fingerprinting Foreigners at the Border

2008-12-12 06:21:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Good comments : Anyway, turning someone away from the border is a trivial security against terrorism because terrorists are fungible. Turning away a known terrorist merely inconveniences a terrorist group, which just has to recruit someone different. The 9/11 attacks were conducted for the most part by people who had no known record of terrorism...
 
Tags: border, biometric border security, border biometrics, benefit, negligible benefit, mild inconvenience, inconvenience, attacks, terrorists