Free for all

another good guy...
just now got one ppl do avatar..
now got one ppl do siggy...
u both can combine or be good friend wo...

er...mayb can open www.createsiggytheme.net

yea..so nice got people do avatar and siggy here in LYN..should have this kinda thread and pin-up

I already chat wif him just now... he is 1982 guy doing mobile telco thingy...

BAH!!!
My avatar and siggie pwns all of you!

how about a moving ones like happy4ever sign

that's animated .GIF (me kinda lazy to do it)

To lazy to do mine 3D style. You mind just 3D'ing my signature? Don't want those curvy corners tough. Try to keep it as it is to the original size and file size.

help me make avatar + siggy as well ? <3

Here is one of my avatar xD

nbtd... huhu

man i love the fractal effects~! nvr get bored doing it

This post has been edited by NiTrOLaNCeR: Dec 7 2006, 06:01 PM

lao...you created tat snowman...
got tut?

gimme your pic

Thanks dude.

Muhammad Nur Hanief, can try doing it for me ? would love to see how its gonna look like for mine. thx in advance dude

I will be back online... coz now it's raining... and I got a call from an Arabian girl from New York ... my mom start to asking me so many questions like the policewoman

Weird!

Jobs Wanted
By News Team
The Straits Times Publication Date : 2006-12-08

While Asia's economies expand at an impressive clip, job creation has fallen by the wayside

Sutantyo arrived at Jakarta's main Kampung Rambutan bus terminal in late October along with hundreds of thousands of people returning from the provinces after the Islamic holiday marking the end of Ramadan.

The 20-year-old high-school graduate from a small town in East Java will be sent home if he is caught in police swoops on new migrants who do not have permits to work in the capital.

"I can't find any work back home," says Sutantyo, who hopes to find a job as an office clerk or courier.

Sutantyo is a drop in a rising global wave of unemployed youth.

According to a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 rose internationally by nearly 15 per cent to 85 million between 1995 and 2005.
Southeast Asia, despite the vibrancy of many of its economies, posted by far the highest rate of growth in its unemployed youth, whose numbers surged 85 per cent to 9.7 million over the decade. Sub-Saharan Africa was a distant second with a 34 per cent rise.

But the ILO uses wide brush strokes to portray youth unemployment in a region with economies ranging from the wealthy, such as Singapore, which was not mentioned in the study, to the developing.

Singapore's overall unemployment rate fell to 2.7 per cent in September from an average of 3.2 per cent last year on the back of an economy that is ticking over nicely.

The ILO says the trend shows that Southeast Asia's young labour force has still not recovered from the fallout on general unemployment caused by the 1997 financial crisis.

While Asia's economies are growing, job creation has not been strong enough to absorb the tide of new entrants to the labour force each year.

And countries with high birth rates, rigid labour laws and the weakest economies tend to bear the brunt of this trend.

Youth unemployment in South-East Asia is five times higher than among adults, a ratio that is way above the global average. Close to 16 per cent of the region's young workers do not have jobs, compared to the figure of 9.2 per cent in 1995.

"This is really the tip of the iceberg," said Steve Kapsos, a labour economist in the ILO's Bangkok office.

"You have millions more who are working, but in such low productivity jobs that they are not producing enough to exit poverty, and that's the bigger problem in terms of numbers."

In a fragile economy like the Philippines, where the ILO puts youth unemployment at 25 per cent, even an empty parking space on a busy street can be a source of income for the jobless young men who usher drivers into a spot for a few pesos.

In Asia's strong economies, graduates from universities and diploma mills are not only chasing too few jobs, but also finding it increasingly hard to find work fitting their qualifications.

South Korea had a record 281,000 college graduates without jobs this year, and its youth unemployment rate is nearly double pre-1997 levels.

While that mainly reflects the preference of South Korean companies to hire experienced workers rather than newcomers, Korean graduates are also choosy - many hold out in the hope of landing a plum job in one of the country's big conglomerates rather than joining smaller firms for less pay.
Even so, the strains of failing to land work can have major consequences.

A year after graduating from Seoul's prestigious Yonsei University, Lee Jin Gyung attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

"I was so depressed after repeatedly failing to find a good job," said the 23-year-old arts graduate, who received only one job offer after sending out more than 600 applications.

But she turned it down because it paid 1.3 million won (US$1,380) a month, well below the average two-million won salary for a white-collar worker in Seoul.

Over in Beijing, computer software graduate He Xin, 22, got his degree from Beijing City University five months ago.

The only job offers he has received from IT companies have all been in lower-rung sales and customer services. He was lucky even to get those.

Just over four million graduates joined China's workforce this year. But even with the economy growing at a double-digit gallop, only 1.6 million have found jobs.

Only a generation ago, a college degree was a ticket to a job in a state-owned enterprise offering free housing and medical benefits.

In 1998, China increased university enrolment massively to delay a feared wave of unemployment caused by the Asian financial crisis.

In South Asia, youth unemployment rates have stayed at around 10 per cent over the past decade, but only one in 10 earns more than the US$2 a day measure of poverty.

Nash Yadav pulls a rickshaw in Delhi for 13 hours a day. He earns less than $2 but tries to send most of his earnings to his father, a subsistence farmer in Uttar Pradesh, to help settle a family debt.

The 18-year-old complains that not much is left after the rent of his rickshaw and other deductions, including "bribes to keep the police happy".

Despite India's economic boom and the enormous wealth being created through its IT and pharmaceutical sectors, long queues of unemployed are still a common sight outside recruitment centres.

Unlike China, foreign investment in India's labour-intensive manufacturing sector is sluggish, and there is a freeze on government recruitment.

Instead, investment is moving to Viet Nam as firms discover its young, industrious and cheap workers.

While most of these jobs are in manufacturing, there are plenty of opportunities for skilled profession workers. The local papers are full of job advertisements looking for qualified people, especially those with language skills.

Tran Thi Mong from Ho Chi Minh City landed a job in public relations for a French company in Singapore just three months after graduating from university this year.

"I studied French," said the 22-year-old. "My language skills help me a lot in my work. I get US$300 a month for my trial time and will get a higher salary when confirmed in my job.

"Still, I plan to check out other companies to see if I can get an even higher-paying job."

So what does the future hold for Asia's young workers?

The ILO says those countries with declining young labour forces, such as South Korea and Thailand, will be able to focus on improving the quality of jobs, as well as widen opportunities for young women in the workplace.

But a formidable youth employment challenge remains huge elsewhere.

The ILO forecasts that between 2005 and 2015, the youth labour force will expand by 17 per cent in Malaysia and the Philippines, and by more than 20 per cent in Laos and Pakistan.

"These countries will face enormous pressure to create jobs for millions of young labour market entrants over the coming decade," predicts the ILO.

By Alastair McIndoe in Manila, Tschang Chi-Chu in Beijing, Lee Tee Jong in Seoul, Devi Asmarani in Jakarta, P. Jayaram in New Delhi, Roger Mitton in Hanoi, Nirmal Ghosh in Bangkok and Reme Ahmad in Malaysia.

http://www.asianewsnet.net/epap_content2.php?paper_id=1049



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This post has been edited by Muhammad Nur Hanief: Dec 8 2006, 08:46 PM

Thanks Muhammad Nur Hanief. The sig look kinda neat ... I like it