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Twitter Doles out Stock, Cash Bonuses up to $200,000 to Retain Talent

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 10, 2016 | Business

Twitter Inc has decided to win their employees over by granting varying amounts of restricted stock depending on when the employees started working, in order to make up for the value they lost since joining the company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people...

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Tunisian Police Protest Over Pay in New Test for Government

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 25, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Several thousand Tunisian police marched to the presidential palace on Monday to demand more pay in the latest challenge to Prime Minister Habib Essid’s government after a week of protests and riots over jobs. Tunisia’s security forces are at the forefront...

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People walk past empty restaurants in downtown Beirut, Lebanon on November 20, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir)

Lebanese economy minister proposes measures to regulate employment of Syrians

by Caroline Akoum | Jul 10, 2014 | Business

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese authorities are considering a number of measures to regulate the employment of Syrian refugees in Lebanon on Thursday, in an attempt to address the strain caused by more than 1 million Syrians currently in Lebanon on the country’s...

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UfM Secretary-General: The View from the Mediterranean

by Michel Abu Najm | Sep 29, 2013 | Interviews

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Policy-makers from the Mediterranean region have been busy over the past few weeks, first attending a Paris conference on strengthening the role of women in society before heading to Tunis for the Mediterranean Economic Conference. Amid that...

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Opinion: The Culture of Work and the Construction of Hope

by Hussein Shobokshi | May 27, 2013 | Opinion

I could not believe my eyes as I read a trending news item. I read it again and still could not believe what I was reading. The General Manager of the Express Mail Service (EMS) in Saudi Arabia Hamad Al-Bakr “reacted” emphatically to a post on Twitter that carried a...