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The European Commission said on Wednesday it will provide guidance to European Union member-states on how to manage national schemes to sell passports and residency permits to wealthy foreign citizens, as campaigners and lawmakers warned of money laundering risks.

After holding a series of walkouts in previous weeks, Greek doctors warned of fresh action over a Health Ministry bill that Parliament passed Thursday overhauling their working hours and staff recruitment procedures.

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) released a report revealing the working conditions of research assistants at the universities' medical faculties, indicating that 15.4 percent of the assistants "almost never" work with academics, whereas 3.9 percent "never" work with academics.

Investments in Turkey mobilized by the Turkish American  Business Association (TABA/AmCham) in the first quarter of 2017 are expected to reach $350 million, the head of the association said on Feb. 22.

For the second year in a row, Singapore has taken the top spot in HSBC's Expat Explorer country league table, while Switzerland offers the best wages and Sweden is the best for families. 

New Zealand and Canada followed close behind, taking second and third place, respectively, in the overall Expat Explorer country league table.

A new study has revealed that Taiwan is the best country in the world for expats, while Kuwait is the worst.
The results come from a report by the online expat community InterNations, which looks at everything from quality of life and personal finance, to job satisfaction and ease of settling indices.

Expat Explorer 2015, in its eight year, is one of the largest studies of people living and working abroad. The goal of Expat Explorer is to present one of the largest surveys to give findings of expat life. Last year, almost 9,300 expats based in over 100 countries were questioned between April and May 2014.

From August to October, London’s Moving Museum will host 38 international artists, marking the largest coordinated influx of international resident artists in Istanbul’s recent memory Following major projects in Dubai and London in 2013, the Moving Museum, a London-based non-profit organization, has launched its third and most ambitious endeavor in Istanbul this year: the establishme

Sofia is the most affordable EU city for expat living, shows the 2014 Mercer Cost of Living Rankings annual survey. 

The capital of Bulgaria takes the 172-nd position out of 211 surveyed cities. 

Compared to the 2013 survey, the cost of expat living increased, shows the survey. Last year Bulgaria was at the 181-st place.