Re: Immigrants and Hitech

["DiemQuynh Nguyen" <diemquynhng@hotmail.com>]

 Hi anh TUan (UWM) and all:
 I heard from a CEO of hitech that the salary of an engineer 
here(Silicon Valley) can pay for a department in elsewhere in Asia 
country! 
 Well! people here has to do hi-hi-tech! 
 Thanks for the news
 DQ
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>Hello friends,
>
>        I found the following piece of news is interesting. It was 
posted in
>VACETS.
>
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>Published: July 27, 1997
>http://www.sjmercury.com/business/imm072797.htm
>
>BY ARIANA E. CHA  
>Mercury News  Staff Writer
>
>The stream of immigrant engineers and computer scientists that
>nourished Silicon Valley in the early 1990s is drying up -- sending
>companies scrambling to construct research and development centers
>abroad.
>
>Labor analysts say the changes are due to a number of factors,
>including globalization of the computer industry, an Immigration and
>Naturalization Service crackdown on companies that abused the U.S. visa
>system, ............... deleted...............
>
>``I joined Cypress because it was one of the premier semiconductor
>companies . . .'' said Shiva Gowni, 36, manager of the company's
>Bangalore, India, design center. ``But I enjoy being able to live
>closer to my family.''
>
>Bloomberg News contributed to this report.
>


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