This & That, Ceci et Cela

Not all roads in China are paved with gold; ChongQing is far behind:

May 8th, 2005 2:00am
"Whole districts are being flattened, with former residents literally scraping a living - scavenging for building materials to clean up and sell on.  Chongqing today  is a huge, messy building site - clearly a project in its early stages of construction as it vies for investment" (BBC).

How should East European EU migrant workers be paid?

1:00am
A very interesting issue; Should EU migrant workers (e.g. East European labour which costs a quarter of West European wages) be paid according to the wages and conditions of their home countries or the countries where they do the job? (IHT) Interesting issue. Any bright ideas?

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