Boozing into the night might inhibit coherent speech, but a Japanese company bets it will make workers communicate better. And it’s even willing to pay for it.
Japan General Estate Co. said last week it is planning to dole out thousands of dollars a month for its employees to go out on the town in a bid to help communication. Japanese companies routinely offer generous expense accounts to entertain clients, but the real estate company is going a step further by subsidising workers’ drinking sessions with one another.The company plans to offer managers who supervise 20 or more people up to 300,000 yen ($42,000) a month to take them out. Managers with fewer than 20 workers will get 200,000 yen ($28,000), a company statement said.
After-hours drinking is encouraged in Japanese corporate culture as a way to break the ice in work environments that can be uptight and formal.But critics say the pressure to drink — and perform Karaoke numbers in front of jeering colleagues — is one of the reasons why Japan’s population is declining as men in particular spend little time at home. Japan General Estate said the drinking benefits could alternatively be used for wedding or funeral expenses.The company is known for its unorthodox work policies, such as paying 100,000 yen ($14,000) in benefits to employees who do not smoke.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
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** India struggles with gay rights
**Indian launches butt-out campaign
**Indian launches butt-out campaign
Virgin? News U Use
Some Asian women in Britain are faking their virginity, driven to desperation by concepts of ‘honour’ in a community where myths about their first sexual experience is still widely held, an Asian radio station reported.If found to have sex before marriage, the lives of some young Asian women can be at risk and they can be driven away from their homes, experts and community workers told the BBC Asian Network documentary Like a Virgin.
As a result, desperate young women are using fake blood and even going in for reconstructive surgery to fake their virginity.In an echo of social attitudes held in many parts of the Indian subcontinent, the program found that most of the 17 to 21-year-old men interviewed in the region of West Midlands — home to a large number of Asians — preferred women to be virgins at marriage.
Concepts of ‘izzat’ — or honour — are strongly held among some conservative Asian communities in Britain and have been linked not only to the practice of forced marriage but also, in some cases, the murder of young women.An adviser formerly with the national sexual health charity Brook said she personally received requests for information on faking virginity on a daily basis from young Asian women — and that she provided the information because she feared for the safety of these women.
She said: They would sometimes come in to the centre because they were concerned about the fact that maybe they had had unprotected sex with a boyfriend and they were concerned about whether other men would know they had had sex before and were not a virgin.The discussions would then go around some of the myths around virginity . . . that girls bleed on the first time of having sexual intercourse. The problem is that lots of men and lots of people within the (Asian) community believe that that is true, and therefore they (young women) are very concerned that they will get married and they won’t bleed and their husband will believe they weren’t a virgin at marriage and all the problems that that would cause them in life.She said women were using red dye and mock blood that can be bought from novelty shops that they inserted into their vaginas or spread on the bed sheet after having sex.
Underlining the seriousness of the issue, the adviser said she agreed to provide information on how to fake virginity because for some young women the risks to them and their personal safety were so great that if they were not able to fake it then the consequences could have been dire.
As a result, desperate young women are using fake blood and even going in for reconstructive surgery to fake their virginity.In an echo of social attitudes held in many parts of the Indian subcontinent, the program found that most of the 17 to 21-year-old men interviewed in the region of West Midlands — home to a large number of Asians — preferred women to be virgins at marriage.
Concepts of ‘izzat’ — or honour — are strongly held among some conservative Asian communities in Britain and have been linked not only to the practice of forced marriage but also, in some cases, the murder of young women.An adviser formerly with the national sexual health charity Brook said she personally received requests for information on faking virginity on a daily basis from young Asian women — and that she provided the information because she feared for the safety of these women.
She said: They would sometimes come in to the centre because they were concerned about the fact that maybe they had had unprotected sex with a boyfriend and they were concerned about whether other men would know they had had sex before and were not a virgin.The discussions would then go around some of the myths around virginity . . . that girls bleed on the first time of having sexual intercourse. The problem is that lots of men and lots of people within the (Asian) community believe that that is true, and therefore they (young women) are very concerned that they will get married and they won’t bleed and their husband will believe they weren’t a virgin at marriage and all the problems that that would cause them in life.She said women were using red dye and mock blood that can be bought from novelty shops that they inserted into their vaginas or spread on the bed sheet after having sex.
Underlining the seriousness of the issue, the adviser said she agreed to provide information on how to fake virginity because for some young women the risks to them and their personal safety were so great that if they were not able to fake it then the consequences could have been dire.
SHIMLA - Conspicuously/grossly (News Use)
Who are these people who take their own decesions 7 own rules, from where di d all this start, who can question them, a married woman’s face was blackened, shoes hung around her neck and then paraded through her village in Himachal Pradesh as she had deserted her husband to live with another man. A few months ago, Veena deserted her husband and started living with Ajit Kumar. After the 1st husband- Kumar’s death, she came back to her husband’s house at Matt village. When villagers came to know about her arrival, they got agitated. They allegedly thrashed her in full public view.
Conspicuously/grossly (News Use) Coin Fetch's Fortune
Unbelievable, a vintage 1 rupee coin fetched about $7,000 at a auction in India’s IT hub on the country’s sixty-second Independence Day. The lucky owner of the rare coin, minted in 1960, outbid stiff competition from two other rivals to pocket the prized possession. The coin was minted at Bombay Mint in 1960, which never got the approval of senior officers for circulation. A 25 cent gold coin from the British era with Queen Victoria’s etching also garnered great interest among numismatists. It was auctioned for $3,933.
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