“We don’t have any wage inflation in China and we haven’t for the last year and a half, and the number of really high-quality graduates coming out of this system is stunning.”

Freeborders China, one of the largest foreign-owned IT outsourcing centers in south China, has 225 employees in their development laboratory in Shenzhen working for over 400 companies. While this number pales in comparison with some Indian firms with thousands of employees, Cestar sees potential for growth.

More UK Firms Outsourcing
Gulf Daily News reports British companies are under pressure to outsource parts of their business to remain competitive.

A total 51 per cent of respondents said pressure to outsource abroad had risen during the past two years, while 29pc said the burden had increased “a lot”.

“Off-shoring is now part-and-parcel of doing business in the global economy,” CBI director general Digby Jones said.

“Make no mistake, this is a survival issue. Anyone who believes that firms have a great deal of choice are naive.”
This week’s Blawg Review, the weekly review of the best in law blogging, is hosted this week by Rosemary the dog, filling in for her human, attorney Sheryl Schelin who blogs at the SC Employment Law Blog.

As usual, Blawg Review #104 links to some interesting posts, including Stephanie West Allen’s interview with Mohammadreza Hojat on the empathy of service professionals as part of her series of interviews with thinkers and practitioners with ideas to inspire the work of both lawyers and mediators.

Good dog, Rosemary–here’s a cookie!

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Mapping the crisis in Darfur with Google Earth

Mapping the HolocaustIn an effort to raise public awareness of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has partnered with Google as part of an extraordinary project using Google Earth technology to map the atrocities in Darfur.
International Herald Tribune reports outsourcing companies in India are jubilant over the re-election of President George W. Bush.

“This is great news for the offshoring industry,” said Nandan Nilekani, the chief executive of Infosys Technologies, a software services company. The trend toward outsourcing will now become even more inexorable, Nilekani said.