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Happy New Year Everyone! Fabulous to have you with us. This month we talk to: Elaine Young, a British expat in Hong Kong who was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the prestigious RBS Coutts and Financial Times, Women in Asia Awards; expat entrepreneur Jill DiGiovanni about her business, CHEFinBERLIN; and Maya Frost about The New Global Student and her recent move back to Japan. |
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Thanks for our new articles go to: Sybil Baker, for Travel Writing: 6 Tips to Make It Better; Sean D Truman and Susan Bernstein for their article, Living Without a Net: Getting Help, Far From Home; Susan Bloch, for contributing 8 Steps To Dissolving The Glass Ceiling; and our Expat Women Girlfriend for her answer to the confession, Finding the Right School. |
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This month is our 4th Birthday online! Thank you very much to each of you for your support to date. We now have over 10,000 members worldwide, of 165 nationalities, based in 187 countries. Yet still, most expats and HR Managers have never heard about our site's wealth of information and inspiration, so please keep sharing ExpatWomen.com with every expat friend and network you know. Thank you. |
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Expat Women Blog Shout-Out Competition: To celebrate our birthday, we are again this year giving away a US$100 Amazon.com voucher to one lucky blogger who gives us a positive, happy birthday shout-out on their blog - anytime between now and midnight 31 January 2011 (US EST). For full details, please read our blog entry here. All shout-outs are incredibly appreciated!
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Wishing you a fantastic 2011,
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Success Story |
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Business Idea |
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Elaine Young
CEO and Co-Founder, Shama |
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Elaine Young, mother of three, is a savvy expat entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. In 2009, Elaine was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by the prestigious RBS Coutts and Financial Times, Women in Asia Awards, and in 2010, she successfully sold... |
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| Chef In Berlin |
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When growing up near Niagara Falls, Jill DiGiovanni dreamt of being happily swept away to undiscovered places. Her dream came true; first when she began cooking as a chef on the seas, and now, while running her own business as a chef in Berlin... |
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Expat Confession |
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Travel Writing |
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Finding The Right School
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We are on the verge of moving to Lithuania and I was wondering if you could please give me some tips to help me choose the 'best fit' school for our 7 year old son. All of the school websites I have visited make each school look so picture-perfect, but... |
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6 Tips To Make It Better
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When I first moved to South Korea to teach English in 1995... I would write long letters home to my parents detailing the mystifying and fascinating world of “exotic” Asia. My parents would share those letters... and invariably people would say... |
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Interesting Links |
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Our Expat Women Blog was a bit quiet over the holidays, so here are some interesting links this month instead. Enjoy! |
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