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SingaporeWorkMain Street Employers Still Struggling to Fill Job Openings - Inc (No paywall) Government employment data released Thursday reflected an extended trend of companies balancing relatively few layoffs with equally modest new hire rates. But small businesses are facing another form of labor market tension created by an entirely different reason, according to a Thursday report from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). It blamed low hiring rates among Main Street entrepreneurs on their difficulties finding suitable candidates for openings they need to fill.That shortage of ready, willing, and able prospective employees that NFIB members complained of in February became more pronounced last month. The organization?s March poll found 47 percent of small-business ?owners reported few or no qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill,? up two points from the previous month. Among companies that sought to hire for openings available last month, 87 percent said they?d failed to find appropriate candidates. Included in that group were 26 percent of entrepreneurs who lamented that few suitable people applied for vacancies, and 21 percent who said nobody did. WorkWork SingaporeSingaporeIndonesia, Malaysia Discuss Joint Response to Trump's 'Liberation Tariffs'Jakarta. Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday to discuss a joint response to the sweeping US tariff hikes, which President Donald Trump has controversially dubbed "liberation day" for the American people. SingaporeSingapore WorkChina Slams Trump?s Tariffs With AI Leaders around the world have responded to U.S. President Donald Trump?s shocking new tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy with stern words and denunciations. But Chinese state media have offered a different approach. WorkWorkThese Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library The list also includes books about gender and sexuality, like “Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex” by Elizabeth Reis, and “Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes” by Gerald N. Callahan. President Trump issued a separate executive order in January proclaiming that there are only two sexes. WorkRepublicans Like to Cut Taxes. With Tariffs, Trump Is Raising Them. Of course, Mr. Trump and the White House argue that tariffs are not taxes on Americans, but rather on foreign companies that will have to lower their prices to maintain access to the U.S. market. Mainstream economists have consistently found that tariffs raise prices for American consumers and companies, including domestic manufacturers who import materials to turn into final products. WorkSingaporeSingaporeWork WorkWorkFrom Waste to Wow: 10 Innovative Recycled Plastic Products Let's be real--plastic pollution is a massive headache for our planet. Every year, millions of tons of the stuff clog up landfills, choke oceans, and linger in ecosystems for centuries. It's a good thing that innovators are continuously finding ways to transform this crisis into opportunity. WorkCharging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps A stabilizing coating on an electrode, combined with microscale channels, helps solve the trade-off between range and charging speed, even in cold temperatures Engineering student Chloe Acosta plugs in an EV for charging in snowy weather on the University of Michigan's North Campus. Work WorkDo women really talk more than men? Are women more talkative than men? It's a common assumption, note the authors of a recent study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. WorkWorkWorkWhat 2026 looks like -- LessWrong This was written for the Vignettes Workshop.[1] The goal is to write out a detailed future history ("trajectory") that is as realistic (to me) as I can currently manage, i.e. I'm not aware of any alternative trajectory that is similarly detailed and clearly more plausible to me. WorkWork7 Americans Weigh In on Trump's Sweeping Tariffs “As a business owner, you don’t make money right away, right?” said Mr. Chaudhry, who voted for Mr. Trump. “When I listen to Trump, what he’s saying is, ‘It’s a short-term pain, but there’s the light at the end of the tunnel.’” WorkWork WorkDonald Trump was right. Daylight Saving Time needs to go - The Economist (No paywall) Every spring about 1.6bn people have to change their clocks as they move into Daylight Saving Time. For many, including Europeans this week, the joys of the season include a sleep-deprived few days after the clocks change and having to explain to children bouncing off the walls that, despite the bright daylight outside, it is in fact bedtime. WorkWorkKiwi start-up aims to take space transport to new heights It has all the qualities of an aircraft but with its rocket engine, the Dawn Mk-II Aurora can fly faster and higher than any jet. Dawn Aerospace is a New Zealand company working on developing greener and more convenient alternatives to traditional space transportation. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Trump cost America the world ?America is lost!? a distressed King George III had noted, reviewing the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. But will today?s would-be monarch in Washington one day similarly regret having lost the world? WorkTrump's National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses Mr. Warner was referring to an operation in which Chinese intelligence bored so deeply into American telecommunications networks that it had access to the Justice Department’s system for lawful interception of calls or text messages and could listen in on some conversations, including Mr. Trump’s during his campaign last year. WorkDaylight saving is about to end and businesses on NSW-Queensland border are celebrating The US president, Donald Trump, wants to end the practice, declaring before his re-election that the Republican party would "use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time" because it's "inconvenient". However, to date he has been too distracted upending world trade and making devastating changes to foreign aid to worry about stopping the clocks changing. WorkColumbia Displays More Aggressive Posture in Dealing With Demonstrators Columbia University students have long had a basic understanding about their relationship with the school's Public Safety Department. Unlike at most American universities, which employ a full-fledged police force, Columbia's public safety officers rarely, if ever, touch students. No longer. WorkWhere the right?s defense of free speech ends Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. We don?t drown you in panic-inducing headlines, and we?re not obsessed with being the first to break the news. We?re focused on being helpful to you. WorkOne state, no solution: Planning for the death of Palestinian independence Based in his hometown of Staten Island, New York City, Tom O'Connor is an award-winning Senior Writer of Foreign Policy and Deputy Editor of National Security and Foreign Policy at Newsweek, where he specializes in covering the Middle East, North Korea, China, Russia and other areas of international affairs, relations and conflict. He has previously written for International Business Times, the New York Post, the Daily Star (Lebanon)and Staten Island Advance. His works have been cited in more than 1,800 academic papers, government reports, books, news articles and other forms of research and media from across the globe. He has contributed analysis to a number of international outlets and has participated in Track II diplomacy related to the Middle East as well as in fellowships at The Korea Society and Foreign Press Center Japan. Follow @ShaolinTom for daily news on X and his official Facebook page. Email t.oconnor@newsweek.com with tips or for media commentaryand appearances. Languages: English and Arabic |
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