SINGAPORE: The bilateral cooperation between China and Singapore has just gone up another notch, with the establishment of the first Business Process Outsourcing Management School in Jiangsu Province.

Another sign of the troubled economy is that more people are losing their jobs. Unemployment in the Charlotte area is more than 6-percent and up nearly 5-percent from a year ago. Many workers are hoping extra training will lead to job security.

TCS CEO and Managing Director S Ramadorai said the new centre will conduct the company's initial learning progranmme for fresh engineering graduates and provide world-class training and research facilities. TCS, the leading IT services, business solution

The offshoring and outsourcing (O&O) industry earned $5.8 billion for the first half of this year, the Business Process Outsourcing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) said.

Yesterday, the Exhibition & Fair Company organized a press meeting to announce that an international exhibition titled “Vietbuild 2008 in HCMC” which will last from 3 to 7 September 2008.