Immigrants, mainly from Eastern Europe, have increased tax revenue for British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown by about £18 billion pounds (USD $35 billion) since 1998, a report shows.
Ernst & Young ITEM Club said that immigration and a greater number of people older than 50 in the work force added £2 billion to the United Kingdom's Treasury coffers in the year through March 2006, and £1 billion in the previous fiscal year. The bigger labor force will drive economic... | Even though some aspects of our life have seriously changed, some people are still prejudiced against things that used to be imperfect some time ago but deserve trust today. This particularly concerns oral contraceptives. While millions of women take fifth generation oral contraceptives and have their health in good repair, it is still rumored that a woman may awfully put on weight and grow terribly hairy if she takes to such pills.
Some people think that oral contraceptives are bad for women’... | Premier Su Tseng-chang presided over the launch ceremony of the National Immigration Agency, a bureau of the Interior Ministry, and urged the agency to take care of immigrants' welfare and at the same time prevent illegal immigrants from entering Taiwan. Su also confirmed that Taiwan would introduce an identification system that uses facial scans that, in the initial stage, would be used mainly for mainland Chinese immigrants and visitors. "We respect human rights, but we must also be concerned ... |