English Time with Yves

  Watch :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yhekIGQo4g There is good news for people who want to work in New Zealand. The country has relaxed its visa rules. It wants to attract "digital nomads " to live and work in the country for up to nine months. A digital nomad is someone who can travel and live anywhere because they work online. New Zealand has a new visa that allows visitors to work remotely for a foreign employer for three months. This can be extended for up to nine months. However, someone staying for nine months may have to pay tax. Economic growth minister Nicola Willis hopes the new visa will aid  New Zealand's economy. She said: "We want more wealthy and super-talented people coming through the arrival gates." New Zealand's economy has suffered in recent years. The Covid pandemic hurt the country's tourism industry . It has not yet recovered to pre-Covid levels. Another thing that is affecting the economy is the number of young p...

When the Luigi Mangione story broke , it felt like something straight out of a Netflix documentary pitch : a young, intelligent Ivy League graduate with a painful backstory and a grudge against corporate America, now at the centre of a brutal murder case. But what’s grabbed headlines just as much as the crime itself is the unsettling wave of admiration he’s inspired. People online are calling him a “king,” dressing like him, even turning him into a meme. And while it’s easy to dismiss this as just dark internet humour, it says a lot about the times we’re living in. Let’s start with the obvious: Mangione’s alleged actions are horrifying. A targeted killing, meticulously planned, carried out in broad daylight... there’s no excusing that. A man lost his life, a family lost their father. Yet somehow, Mangione has become a figurehead for anger and frustration, particularly among those disillusioned with capitalism and America’s healthcare system. How does that happen? Part of it lies ...