Are you interested in participating in a CNN Business Traveller interview in London?

Hi Everyone

If you are traveling to London in the next 2 weeks, I would like to recommend a great event that might interest you:

The event is an intiative of GDN - Global Dinner Network Website

What is GDN?

In their words - "The GDN is the first global meeting point for female travellers and locals. Meeting up with local women is a great way of finding out more about the city and how other nationalities live. The GDN makes independent travel easier as it enables social interaction in a comfortable and safe environment. The GDN is not only about meeting up for dinner - meet for lunch or coffee, use it for business networking or to find women with similar interests, e.g. running, yoga, theatre or cinema, clubbing..."

Lianne Turner, a journalist from the Business Traveller show on CNN International is looking to interview GDN members that will meet over a GDN dinner in London within the next two weeks (until the 31st of July).

If you are planning a trip to London and a GDN dinner and if you are open and interested in participating in a CNN Business Traveller interview , please email Lianne (lianne.turner@cnn.com) and copy Ulrike (ulrike.baumgart@gmx.net) the GDN dinner host in London.

What a great opportunity :)

If you are not a member of GDN you can become a memeber by entering your details in here.

If you get a chance to participate in the CNN interview please come back here and tell us how it was.

Enjoy your Holidays
Sharon

HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer Survey 2009

Hi Everyone

Part 1 of The Expat Explorer survey, which was commissioned by HSBC Bank International and conducted by third party research company FreshMinds has been published.

This publication is about Expat Economics, and it is the first of three reports.

The report examined the financial circumstances of expats and compares the experiences of people living in different countries. It reveals how expat life has been affected by the global economic downturn and the change in people’s spending and saving habits.

Some interesting findings:

1. Asia is home to the highest paid expats in the world (First Russia then Hong Kong, and Japan follows), while their poorer counterparts can be found in Australia and Western Europe.

2. The UK remains one of the most expensive places for expats to live

3. Expats in Saudi Arabia, Russia and Qatar manage to save more now since moving away from their country of origin than expats in any other country.

4. Popular methods for saving and investing money among expats include, shares, property and managed funds. Property was a popular option in Bahrain and South Africa, while shares are popular for expats in Hong Kong, Japan and Malaysia.

5. 63% of expats worldwide said that the credit crunch has changed their attitude to spending. The most affected expats are based in Russia, US and Japan.

You can find here the full report HSBC Bank International
Expat Explorer Survey 2009

Sharon

For British Expats or Anyone Who Loves UK T.V

Hi Everyone

I just came across something really cool, a prefectly legal possibbility to watch UK TV from anywhere in the world.

Living away from the UK creates various restrictions on what TV channels are available for you to watch online. Internet TV is fast becoming a great alternative to satellite systems. By using a UK proxy service your computer appear as though it is in the United Kingdom, and enable you to watch any UK blocked website from anywhere in the world legally.

The whole process is simple. Each time you use the internet, your computer gives out an ip address. For example, if you are in Spain, your ip address will be a Spanish address that will not allow you to access live online television channels such as BBC and ITV, both these services are only available for computers with a UK ip address.

The Serviice I came across gives your computer a UK ip address so you will be surfing the internet as though you are based in the United Kingdom.

Are you wondering if it is legal?

According to Britishtvanywhere supplying a proxy service is 100% legal. And they do not allow the use of their proxy service for illegal activities such as hacking, illegal downloads or viewing illegal content from abusive websites

With Britishtvanywhere you can watch lots of channels like - BBC TV Lives Channels, ITV Live Channels, Channel 4 live Channels, Channel 5, Sky and more.

Britishtvanywhere will let you a 7 minute free trial so you can make sure that their software is compatible to your system.

Cool AH?

Sharon