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Expat Interview With Lonna - American Living in Turkey
Lonna Lisa Williams has been writing since she was four years old, after her father died, when her mother collected the poems she spoke. In love with words, Lonna wrote childhood stories and plays, eventually publishing books. "Like a Tree Planted" is science fiction, and "Selah of the Summit" is fantasy. “Crossing the Chemo Room,” “I Saw You in the Moon,” and “Fire and Ice” tell her true “Survival Stories.” She got her Master's... Read on...
- Expat Interview With Cynthia - US Expat Living in India3 days ago Cynthia is a White Indian Grandmother that recently moved to India. She grew up in Small Town America in the home that her Great grandfather built. That instilled an appreciation of her American roots and love of Country. The blood of Roger Williams, defender...
- American Expat in Cyprus - Interviewing Fashionista4 days ago “Fashionista,” married to a history and classics professor, never knew that being a professor’s wife could lead to a life of adventure, especially a life of abroad for the entire family. When her husband, then graduate student boyfriend, made a trip over ten...
- Expat Interview With Zannah - American Living in South Korea5 days ago Between studying Japanese throughout school and setting her sights on pursuing a career in education, it seemed inevitable that Zannah Smreker would end up teaching in Asia. It took being laid off from a post-university retail job to finally give her the push she...
- Australian Expat Living in Myanmar - Interview With Jessica6 days ago Jessica Mudditt is a journalist at The Myanmar Times and she has lived outside her home country of Australia for the past seven years. Jessica moved to Myanmar in July 2012 and her blog contains feature articles, light-hearted accounts of life in Myanmar, book...
- Expat Interview With David - American Living in Poland1 week ago This is the experience of someone who left America in search of his roots in Poland. It's a daily blog of what keeps his and his wife's life interesting and rewarding after making the difficult decision to move. David began writing his blog before he moved seven...
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Latest News
Expat mums unfairly penalised by UK expat pension crackdown
The recently announced change in UK pension law disallowing married women’s pensions is hitting hard on stay-at-home expat mums. Married women who have lived overseas with their husbands and never worked will be hit hard by the proposed change in pension law disallowing them from claiming a spousal pension. The change in the law is being brought in to save paying expat spousal pensions to foreign wives who have never worked or lived in the UK but is expected to hit hard on legitimate claimants. The spousal benefit, known as the... Read on...Other Global News...
- Expats in France face confusion over tax on overseas income17 May As French lawmakers fight over the introduction of new tax laws affecting expats who have overseas investments or pensions, potentially affected expats in the country are facing financial confusion. The issue concerns the double tax ruling between France and...
- UK Fraud Squad warns expats abroad over money laundering scam16 May Britain’s scam-buster agency is publicly warning expats living abroad to watch out for a money-transfer scam by organised crime gangs. Action Fraud, an arm of the National Fraud Authority and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, warns that many expats are...
- World survey shows map of least and most racially tolerant countries16 May The World Value Survey’s map of every world country’s level of racial tolerance was used by Swedish researchers to determine the relationship between racism and economic freedom. The report by Swedish economists was prompted by one of many questions asked...
- UAE working expats remit billions of dollars to home countries15 May Expatriate workers living in the United Arab Emirates send home just under a quarter of all overseas remittances made in the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The amounts sent out of the country by its Asian and other overseas expat workers...
- New Spanish property investment visa draws Chinese and Russians15 May The Spanish government’s latest scheme to reinvigorate the country’s dying property market is drawing a rush of interest from non- European Union investors. The property investment visa guarantees residency permits to buyers of Spanish homes costing more...
