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April 13 - 19, 2001
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Asian and Asian American professionals work as independent contractors
By Ron Chepesiuk
Most workers expect a regular paycheck and the health insurance benefits a nine-to-five job provides. But times are changing. A growing breed of young, highly skilled workers, many of whom are in the high-tech field, are opting for freelance, independent contracting careers. For these trailblazers, climbing up the corporate ladder isn’t part of the plan.
Take Zhou Joe Yin and Jing Wang, a married couple from Beijing, China. Zhou came to study in the United States in 1996, and after earning a MBA from Butler University and a master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Seattle Pacific University, he decided to stay. Zhou got a job with Van Waters and Rogers Inc. in Seattle as a systems manager, but since then, he has signed on as an independent contractor with the Redmond, Wash.-based Comforce Information Technologies, an employment agency that supplies high-tech professionals to companies worldwide. As a freelancer, Zhou controls the sale of his skills and services that he contracts out.
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The Japanese Financial Crisis
Is there a way out?
By Ron Chepesiuk
Last month, President Bush met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori for two hours. Bush’s press office said the meeting had a full agenda that included discussions about North Korea and the sinking of the Japanese trawler, the Ehime Maru, by a U.S. submarine. In Japan, however, little attention was paid to the visit. Instead, the country was — and continues to be — focused on the big question: Who will succeed Mori as prime minister?
“The meeting was just a big ego trip for Mori,” Judith Lee, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and an expert on Asian trade, said. “Mori’s got about a 95 percent disapproval rate, and everybody knows he will be out of office this month. So, he’s in no position to discuss the future of Japan.”
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Skyrocketing Employee Health Insurance Costs:
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