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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (4948)	6/30/1998 2:25:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Re: "How are you going to keep them down on the farm...": I'm in Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines. Our beloved President-elect has just given the administrator of the zone his walking papers. The guy has refused to yield, and rallied armed and unarmed followers to the barricades. The newly appointed successor has announced that he will take over with the support of police and military forces. All work has ceased, FedEx has pulled it's operations (Asia1 hub) down to Manila. Showtime is tomorrow AM. How are you going to keep the best and brightest in countries where this sort of crap is a regular occurence? Been watching this thread for a while - really very good stuff all around, probably the most civil and best-informed discussion I've seen on SI. I'm reasonably well read on China, less so on Japan, will comment if I see anything others haven't, which seems unlikely. I'm very well up on anything involving the Philippines, in the unlikely event that anyone cares. My fate is to learn languages nobody wants to speak and intimate details of countries of no global significance. Watching Malaysia - and Manila - with keen interest. May not be around for a few days - will be up the coast with the family, on the beach and well out of the line of fire. I'll review the thread on return, as always. Cheers, Steve

To: Michael Sphar who wrote (4948)	6/30/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: B Tate	Respond to of 9980

Michael <<< foreign countries need to set up attractive programs to keep or repatriate their best and brightest foreign educated kids. "But how are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm..." >>> I recall when I was first working in Malaysia in '95, the government recognized this and initiated a program to rectify the situation. They established a program whereby technical professionals we identified who were working overseas. They, the government, established a program where the folks would be paid a minimum of 100,000 Rm or 20% above the local wage scale, whichever was highest. They were specifically looking for teachers, doctors, scientist, engineers and "other" holders of Masters Degrees from foreign universities. They achieved remarkable results in the first 60 days of the program, One (1) yes, one chemical engineer returned to Malaysia. This program that was "guaranteed" to get ex-pats to return to Malaysia has quietly ceased to exist. As a user of engineering talent I can tell you that to get two Computer Science engineers to return to Malaysia (their home) I paid 20% above scale of the San Jose area. FWIW, to keep them here I've had to add cost of living allowances recently. And, by-the-by, I originally had 3, one has returned to San Jose where life is easy and there are no gov't hassels. BWDIK bt