Expat confusion over Swiss dog laws

Keeping a dog is becoming a difficult affair in Switzerland. First time dog owners are in a precarious position and there is big confusion about the legislation on dogs. As per the law dog owners who have never...

Valencian Government 'sinks' yet more Expat lives

In a move which has provoked outrage amongst the British Expatriate yachting and boating community, the Government of Valencia has hit out at foreign boat owners who are moored in its Costa Blanca marinas and...

Learning Cantonese: A Brooklyn Expat in Hong Kong

You do not have to count Chinese as a subject you are learning to find things of interest on Learning Cantonese. Launched about a month ago, Learning Cantonese tells us about Daisann McLane experience of relocating from Brooklyn to Hong Kong and choosing Cantonese over...

UK expat denies he is Lord Lucan

"A Briton living in New Zealand in an old car, with a pet possum, has denied he is missing aristocrat Lord Lucan. Neighbours became convinced homeless Roger Woodgate was the vanished peer because of his "upper-class" English accent and "military bearing". But he says he is a...

I Live in the Kind of Place Where if I Hear Someone Say "Hello" I Know it's f...

by Maureen Quinlan   AUVERGNE, FR- English is not really very popular with the people here.It's not that they didn’t study it.They did. It's not that they couldn't read the Los Angeles Times if they...

TOPICAL EXPLORATION

"Frankly, nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians frightens me. They've already stated their desire to destroy another nation", blasted the brother of my mother, throwing in the odd foul word as he silenced the family gathering. I stopped poking at the plastic...

TOPICAL EXPLORATION

"Frankly, nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians frightens me. They've already stated their desire to destroy another nation", blasted the brother of my mother, throwing in the odd foul word as he silenced the family gathering. I stopped poking at the plastic...

Become a culturally competent expat

" People are moving to live and work abroad at record rates according to UN figures released in June. But while this may make logical career and business sense, human beings defy logic. "

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