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CHINA - Members of the post-1990 generation looking for work apply for multiple positions and hold high expectations of the jobs, a reflection of young people's changing attitudes amid the country's development, recent research showed.

When fresh graduates do snag a job interview, they are also more likely to miss it, turn down offers and have no qualms about quitting if the work is not to their taste.

These were some of the main findings of research conducted by leading Chinese recruitment website 51job.com.

Of those surveyed, 45.1 per cent of employers said more than half of job candidates failed to turn up on time for interviews.

More than 60 per cent of fresh graduates also felt they needed help from their parents to look for work, the research showed.

The website surveyed 2,357 enterprises and 1,230 fresh graduates nationwide over 15 days in 2013.

Liu Jinjin, deputy director of the human resources department at the Social Sciences Academic Press, said members of the post-1990 generation are picky about employment and it was common for them to break appointments for job interviews.

"Most of the post-1990 generation are the only child in the family. Their living conditions have greatly improved from that of the post-1980 and post-1970 generations. They don't experience much pressure in life so they pay closer attention to personal preferences and interests when hunting for a job," Liu said.

The post-1990 generation also does not care about the amount of money they make. Instead, the working environment, the happiness they derive from their work and respect from others are what matter most, she said.

"The post-1990 generation does not think twice about leaving in their first year of work. If they lose interest in a job or are not clear about their future career path, they will quit easily," Liu said.

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The post-1990 generation is more likely to hold high expectations in finding jobs, a recent research showed. The young generation shows a different attitude, which makes them more frequently miss a job interview, turn down offers and have no qualms about quitting if the work is not to their taste. Zhang Wenkui / Xinhua

Members of the post-1990 generation looking for work apply for multiple positions and hold high expectations of the jobs, a reflection of young people's changing attitudes amid the country's development, recent research showed.

When fresh graduates do snag a job interview, they are also more likely to miss it, turn down offers and have no qualms about quitting if the work is not to their taste.

These were some of the main findings of research conducted by leading Chinese recruitment website 51job.com.

Of those surveyed, 45.1 percent of employers said more than half of job candidates failed to turn up on time for interviews.

More than 60 percent of fresh graduates also felt they needed help from their parents to look for work, the research showed.

The website surveyed 2,357 enterprises and 1,230 fresh graduates nationwide over 15 days in 2013.

Liu Jinjin, deputy director of the human resources department at the Social Sciences Academic Press, said members of the post-1990 generation are picky about employment and it was common for them to break appointments for job interviews.

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Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2013

The Chinese government on Monday released a white paper detailing the progress made in human rights in 2013, highlighting enhanced social fairness, justice and freedom of speech.

"China's progress in its human rights undertaking is there for everybody to see, and every unbiased and reasonable observer can draw a fair conclusion," said the white paper, published by the State Council Information Office under the title "Progress in China's Human Rights in 2013."

The white paper, elaborating the government's achievements in improving people's right to development, said "China's development provides all Chinese people with the opportunities to develop themselves, serve society, make successes in their life and realize their dreams."

Aiming at promoting social fairness, justice and the people's well-being, the Chinese government comprehensively deepened the reform, promoted various undertakings in the economic, social and cultural fields, and safeguarded the people's rights to equal participation and development in 2013, the report said.

The people's living standards have risen steadily, as China continuously improves the urban and rural residents' clothing, food, accommodation, and transportation conditions, it said.

Although not very developed, China has put in place a social security system, which is the world's largest and suitable to China's current social conditions, the report said.

"Both urban and rural residents, especially people in straitened circumstances, can live in dignity, with their basic living conditions better ensured," it said.

"China's democracy and legal system have been further strengthened," the report said.

The country's rural and urban areas for the first time realized the same ratio of deputies to the represented population in the election to the National People's Congress (NPC) deputies in 2013.

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She joins Robert Noble, Interpol secretarygeneral, David Mepham, the UK director of Human Rights Watch and Julie Meyer, the American entrepreneur and judge on the BBC's Dragons' Den, who also cancelled their appearances at the union this week.

Ben Sullivan, a 21yearold student at Christ Church college, resumed his post as Oxford Union president just over a week after his arrest by police on suspicion of rape and attempted rape of two undergraduates. He was released without charge and is currently on bail.

Baroness Lawrence and the singer Paloma Faith are among those who have been urged to withdraw from speaking at the Oxford Union. Other people lined up for this term are Uri Geller and the retired US general, David Petraeus.

Students began a boycott and on May 20 published an open letter calling for Mr Sullivan to step down. Caroline Criado Perez, who campaigned for women to appear on bank notes, and the Leftwing blogger Laurie Penny, were among thoise who signed the letter/

The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa and Pamela Anderson have all appeared at the debating society in the past.

A C Grayling, a Professor of Philosophy, has criticised a boycott of the union as he said the principle of innocent until proven guilty must be upheld and the president should not be subject to "the kangaroo court of opinion."

Following Mr Sullivan's arrest on May 6, he was called in by police for questioning but was released on bail until June 18. He denies the allegations.

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One really cant help but be envious of the ability to summon a monster out of a term so convoluted in its meanings, writes Nicholas Chan.

For the die-hard fans of our Prime Minister, they should be glad that the man made headlines again by saying that human rightism is a threat to Islam, using a term so unheard of that a Google search would only come back with results automatically adjusted to another search term human rights.

But, scarce as its use may be, to the defence of the Prime Minister, human rightism is a legit term in the scholastic sense, with scholastic origins too! The term was first used, at least in published form, by Professor Alain Pellet, a professor of international law in a 1989 symposium. He first used the word to describe the state of mind of human rights activists.

Although neutral in tone at its debut, the term later caught up its pejorative connotation as it implies a form of absolutism in the legal scholarship. The phenomenon that human rights protection is to be made an autonomous, self-sufficient and independent discipline that is separated from international law.

Placing the term in its accurate formation context makes one wonder, why pick a fight with a term that is rarely in use, vague in definition, jurisprudence in nature and most importantly, not in any way related to the normative clash of conservative Islamism of the Muslim world and for the lack of a better term, neo-liberal and consumerist Western values.

It would appear that human rightism was made into a demon of itself, being labelled as a school of thought where the core beliefs are based on humanism and secularism as well as liberalism, obviously a conjecture without proper references to the words origin.

In Professor Pellets view, human rightism might very well be a threat to international law (which is arguably a Western creation, and anti-Islamic in the eyes of the hardliners). He lectured that human rightism has two lapses of judgements.

One is that it wrongly promotes certain legal techniques as being specifically belonging to human rights, amounting to unjustifiable claims for special treatment for human rights in general international law. It is also articulated that human rightism may cause emerging trends in human rights or trends that solely exist in the form of aspirations to be wrongly assumed as legal facts.

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Egypt is likely to continue to face a downward spiral of human rights abuses following the presidential elections, after candidates failed to commit to much-needed reforms to ensure those responsible for abuse face justice, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today.

This election will not wipe the slate clean after 10 months of gross human rights violations, said Hassiba Hadj- Sahraoui, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.

The countrys partners, such as the USA and the European Union, should not use the elections as a cover to return to business as usual with Egypt. Instead, there must be an acknowledgement of the scale and seriousness of the human rights violations committed in the last 10 months.

The first presidential elections since Mohamed Morsi was ousted in July 2013 will take place on 26 and 27 May.

Amnesty Internationals briefing Egypt: Key human rights concerns ahead of presidential elections, details a range of issues, including:

Unprecedented levels of human rights abuses.

Torture and other ill-treatment in detention, including in military custody.

Widening restrictions on the rights to freedoms of expression, association and assembly, particularly against people accused of being Muslim Brotherhood supporters.

Selective justice and unfair trials, including mass death sentences.

Lack of accountability.

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Lecture on the concept of the Post-Human, or In-Human Part 5
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by Alex Zalben 05/23/14

Like most comic book based movies these days, X-Men: Days Of Future Past has a post-credits scene that tees up the next movie, teasing events and characters that will play into 2016s X-Men: Apocalypse.

If youve never read the comic books the movie may be based on, you were probably left scratching your head harder than that Thanos reveal mid-credits in The Avengers. And if you have read the comics? Well, chances are, you may still have been scratching your head.

So heres everything you need to know about the Days of Future Past post-credits scene, and why its important for the future.

MASSIVE SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT.

Okay, brief recap of the scene for those of you who were left stupefied as you exited the theater. The camera reveals a man in a cloak standing on a sandy dune. Thousands of followers are chanting his name, bowing to him. Slowly, its revealed that, with his hands raised, hes building the ancient pyramids with his mind. The camera zooms around to reveal a teenager whose skin is completely grey.

Huhbuhwha?

First of all, lets explain what those followers were chanting: they were saying the teenagers name, En Sabah Nur. In the comics, thats the human name of Apocalypse, a nearly 5,000-year-old mutant, the first one ever in recorded history.

As a kid, Nur learned through enslavement that the world was all about survival of the fittest. With his massive powers, he quickly grew to prominence and eventually was worshipped as a god by the Clan Akkaba regular humans and most likely the people bowing down to Nur in the post-credits scene.

Before we get to the next part, its important to understand what Nurs powers are and thats basically all of them. Nur is strong, fast, invulnerable, can fly and teleport, is able to change his bodys form at will, create force-fields and destructive blasts of energy, and can manipulate and move objects with his mind. Oh, and hes also immortal.

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