Today's Expat Daily News Headlines - Wednesday 21st December 2011

Anyone looking for a new nation to call home needs to look beyond potentially positive economic indicators as nowhere has really been immune from the global financial fallout, rather expats are urged to bank on themselves when dreaming of a successful new life abroad.Just four short years ago the global fiscal landscape was very different to that which we gaze upon today!  Banks were apparently booming, they were still happy to lend, the pound was still relatively strong, and people’s dreams of owning investment property abroad and of retiring in style to the sun were apparently eminently achievable. Link to the full articleAs was to be expected, now that the elections are over, the leader of the powerful, pro-Peronist labor union organization in Argentina, the CGT, has divorced himself from all his duties (which were many) within the ruling Peronist movement this past Saturday, December 17, 2011.   Link to the full articleThailand has been listed at the best place for retirement by the 2011 HSBC Expat Explorer Survey.82% of those surveyed said that it was a great place for retirement compared with 78% of those who had relocated to France and 62% of those who had made the move to Spain. Thailand rated highly with expats for the ease with which they were able to integrate into the community, establish a local support network and maintain a positive life/work balance. Link to the full articleShanghai has the largest population of foreign nationals among all domestic cities and provinces in China, with about 143,200 expat residents living in the city, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau announced recently.  Nearly one in every four foreign residents in the country lives in Shanghai, according to the sisth national census conducted in November 2010. Shanghai is home to a total of 208,300 overseas residents, which adds people from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to the foreign nationals population. Link to the full article

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