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Language barrier key for Nepali in New York

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Nepali Diasporas living in New York face a language barrier, creating a major challenge that causes immigrants to miss out on jobs and other opportunities in the United States. Most of the Nepalis who reached the U.S. in search of green pastures are at the [...]

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New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]

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Wal-Mart to stop extra $1 Sunday pay for employees

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News News Writer Bentonville, Arkansas, United States (AHN) – Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday that it will no longer pay its employees who work Sundays an additional $1 an hour. The new policy, however, would only cover workers hired after Jan. 1, 2011. Current U.S. employees numbering 1.4 million will not be [...]

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Senate Near Compromise On Bush Tax Cuts, Jobless Benefits

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Senate Republicans signaled willingness on Sunday to a compromise with Democrats about extending unemployment insurance and Bush administration tax cuts. The GOP blocked Democratic attempts the previous day to keep tax breaks for the middle class, arguing that tax cuts for higher-income earners [...]

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Food Supplier Nash Finch Sued For Sex Discrimination

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Lumberton, NC, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has filed an administrative complaint against a North Carolina company, Nash Finch Co., with systematic job discrimination against 80 women. Minneapolis, MN-based Nash Finch is the second-largest publicly traded wholesale food distributor in [...]

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U.S. Unemployment Compensation Claims Rise Again

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims rose again last week after falling to the lowest levels in two years the week before, according to the United States Department of Labor. The advance figures for seasonally adjusted initial claims for the week ending Nov. 27 was 436,000, [...]

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Virginia Court Sentences Somali Pirate To 30 Years In Prison

AHN News Staff Virginia, United States (AHN) – Jama Idle Ibrahim, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by a United States court after he was found guilty of attacking an American warship near the Somalia coast in one of the first piracy cases in over a hundred years. U.S. Navy sailors captured Ibrahim [...]

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Iran’s First Nuclear Power Plant Now Operational

Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor Bushehr, Iran (AHN) – After years of delays and postponement, Iran’s first nuclear power plant in Bushehr is now operational and will be supplying electricity to the whole of Iran. Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s atomic energy chief, announced Saturday that the reactor was fueled and operational. He added that [...]

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Campbell Soup 1Q Profit Down 8 Percent

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Camden, NJ, United States (AHN) – Campbell Soup’s earnings for the first quarter of 2011 slid 8 percent but the company maintained its full fiscal year outlook. Net income for the period ended Oct. 31 was $279 million, or 82 cents per share, down from $304 million, or 87 [...]

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Palestinian Economy Booming, Thanks To Foreign Aid

The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – In the lobby, a pair of workers is hanging large portrait photographs of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, while outside a construction scaffolding sits close by the front entrance, but otherwise the West Bank’s first five-star hotel is open for business. Banners advertising the Palestinian stock [...]

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