Countries of the world

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    This page is for accumulating country information of specific usefullness for Consumerium Services. Also this page serves the purpose of forming a Country template for use in Content Wiki once we figure out what information can be reliably collected.

    See w:List of countries for general information on countries of the world.

    Here be the current skeleton

    • Workers' rights
    • Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES/NO/Not determined
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    Africa

    Asia

    China

    Workers' rights

    Trade unions are forbidden by law in China according to the Finnish media.

    Pakistan

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    South Korea

    Workers' rights

    Apparently the workers' situation in South Korea is terrible. There are reports of trade union activists commiting suicide to attract attention to the workers' rights situation in South Korea. see Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) web site for more information

    South Korea has propably the longest workweeks in all the developed world with 6-day weeks with 44 hours average working time. There have been rumors that South Korea will be switching to 5-day working week in 2005 but there is yet no confirmation on whether this is true.

    Europe

    Finland (Suomi)

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Ireland (Eire)

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Netherlands (Nederland)

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Sweden (Sverige)

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    North and Central America

    Oceania

    Australia

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

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