1.   Bovis also intend to offer training courses in skills such as brick laying, in the hope that the contractors will be encouraged to employ local labour.

2.   Every ministry which wanted a budget allocation from the rural employment support fund would have to provide details of plans to hire local labour.

3.   One of the group of mill operators said that association president Niphon Wongtrangarn was criticised at the meeting for his suggestions for attracting more local labour to the mills.

4.   The participants also suggested that knowledge of local labour be increased since there is repatriation of foreign labour.

5.   Bakshi, however, said he thought people realised his restaurant was based on local labour and local produce.

6.   The oil-rich Gulf monarchies will harm their economies if they insist on rapidly replacing their foreign workforce with local labour, experts warned Sunday.

7.   Tibetan authorities have adopted a new regulation aimed at attracting foreign investment and using local labour to construct a road network, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.