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To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…
To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…
To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…
To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…
LISBON, Portugal, Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), in partnership with Web Summit, today announced an expedited set-up procedure for startups from around the world looking to take advantage of Bahrain’s business environment and startup ecosystem. The initiative will enable startups to use the hyper-connected Kingdom of Bahrain as a launch pad to access the broader MENA regional market. The announcement was made ahead of the Web Summit 2019, a leading annual tech conference, which will be attended by a high-level delegation from Team Bahrain, including EDB, Tamkeem (Bahrain Labour Fund), Bahrain Chamber of Commerce…
Local legend says that hugging a pumpkin absorbs bad energy and replaces it with good, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for Hassan and Shajan, Bangladeshi immigrants who share a room with 18 co-workers that’s already overflowing with hundreds of pumpkins of different shapes and sizes. “We have gotten used to growing pumpkins, which we grow in abundance here, at our accommodation. We store them here and sell them during times of high demand such as Ramadan, when they are often used to make the local dish saloon, and also during Halloween, which is celebrated mainly by Western…
Manama, June 8 (BNA): Ahmed Al-Haiki, Acting Undersecretary for Labor Affairs at the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, met with Afoula Afshar, International Analyst for Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking at the US Department of Labor. The meeting, held as part of the Ministry of Labor’s keenness to cooperate and coordinate with the international community to achieve development goals, discussed the Kingdom’s experience in combating all forms of child labor and forced labor. The Assistant Undersecretary highlighted the Kingdom’s commitment to children’s rights and to protecting them from all types of forced labour. …
On July 23 2017, Bahrain’s Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) launched the Flexi-Permit, an initiative that allows irregular migrants to regularise their status by sponsoring themselves and working legally for multiple employers. The UN’s Global Compact on Migration forum highlighted the initiative as a “ground-breaking alternative to traditional labour market management systems.” The 2018 US Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report hailed the Flexi-Permit as “a concrete step to reform the sponsorship system,” and a key reason for upgrading Bahrain to Tier 1 status. Bahrain is now the first Arab country to reach the Tier 1 status, and…
MANAMA – Bahrain has become the first Arab country to reach Tier 1 in the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TiP) report, earning this prestigious award in the 2018 edition. The TiP report ranks governments based on their efforts to recognize and combat human trafficking, and the Tier 1 designation refers to countries that comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. Bahrain was promoted to Tier 2 from the Tier 2 watch list in 2015 and has remained stable in Tier 2 for three consecutive years. The UN migration agency IOM congratulates the Government of Bahrain…
With Gulf economies experiencing dramatic changes in recent months, including the introduction of VAT and fee increases, we felt the time was right to refresh our annual salary survey. While this format has been useful for many years and provided unique insight into the compensation expatriates can expect for some key positions, as we approach the end of the decade it has become increasingly clear that the job types included do not fully reflect the job market. Additionally, it was primarily focused on management, providing less insight to the majority of employees lower down the hierarchy. The new Streamlined Salary…