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Hello Everyone! Fantastic that you could join us. This month we talk to: Beverly Mayhew, a successful pioneer of destination services in Asia Pacific; Cornelia Maeder, an innovative expat chocolatier in Hong Kong; and Emily Liebert, author of the heart-warming new book, Facebook Fairytales.
Thanks for our new articles go to: Rebecca Grappo for her report on the Families in Global Transition Conference in Houston; Carol Barraclough for sharing insight into a recent, significant UK court ruling, in her article Expat Divorce Settlements; our Expat Women Girlfriend for her response to the confession, Not Welcome; and Skyhorse Publishing for allowing us to include the story Healing Hearts.
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Thanks so much for your support and best wishes for April,
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Success Story Business Idea
Beverly Mayhew
Orientations
As the founder of Orientations (a company with offices in nine Asian - Pacific countries), Beverly Dwiggins Mayhew is distinguished as a pioneer of destination services in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore on and off since 1981, Bev moved this year to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
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Expat Women: Success Story: Beverly Mayhew: Orientations
   
Francesca Chocolate
Cornelia Francesca Maeder
Swiss Master Chocolatier Cornelia Francesca Maeder is a talented expat entrepreneur with a big vision: she wants to create products (chocolate, seminars, books, CDs and more) that positively contribute to the health, success and happiness of everyone touched by her brand...
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Expat Women: Business Idea: Francesca Chocolate: Cornelia Maeder
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Families in Global Transition Conference 2010
Rebecca Grappo
Imagine a huge convergence of people who represent families who are in, or understand, global transition. One cannot measure the level of energy nor the buzz of excitement that filled the air of the conference center as old friends reunited and new friendships were made...
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Expat Women: FIGT Conference: Report From Rebecca Grappo
   
Facebook Fairytales
Modern-Day Miracles To Inspire The Human Spirit
Emily Liebert
We talk to Emily Liebert about Facebook Fairytales, which presents twenty-five true, heart-warming stories from the world's most popular social networking site. Emily shares her inspiration, her favorite stories and her impressions of CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
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Expat Women: Facebook Fairytales
Expat Confession Expat Divorce
Not Welcome
Expat Women Girlfriend
Help! My husband's job has taken us to a small, remote, island community in the middle of nowhere. The population is just over 1,000 people and the locals resent and bully the foreign community. They even chased an expat off the island who blogged about her time here...
Expat Women: Expat Confession: Not Welcome
This Confession can now be found (improved and expanded) in our book: Expat Women: Confessions – 50 Answers To Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad.
   
Expat Divorce Settlements
UK Case Study:
Agbaje v Agbaje (2010)

Carol Barraclough
The newly-reported case of Agbaje v Agbaje (2010) UKSC 13 has raised the issue of entitlement for spouses who have dual nationality in divorce proceedings. This is the first time that the Justices of the Supreme Court have...
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Expat Women: Divorce Settlements: Can Expats Claim In Two Countries?
Winning Story Healing Hearts
Studio-less in Zagreb?
Leah
It was the end of my third week in Zagreb, and I still hadn't found an art studio. Everything else had come quite easily for me in my move to Croatia's capital city... but the studio had eluded me. I was driving away my bread and butter - art students - because I couldn't...
Expat Women: Winning Story: Studio-less in Zagreb?
Congratulations Leah!
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(An American in Croatia)
   
Healing Hearts
Extract from Facebook Fairytales
(Skyhorse Publishing)

Emily Liebert
Amy Eldridge adopted a little girl from China in the year 2000. Three years later she returned to the orphanage in China to find a young boy in one of the beds who was - alarmingly - blue in the face...
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Expat Women: Healing Hearts: Extract from Facebook Fairytales
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