跨国企业卷入商业贿赂风波

The Shanghai Daily newspaper reported that 22 company directors and senior employees of multinational corporations such as McDonald's, McKinsey Consulting, and Whirlpool have been detained as part of a bribery investigation. Four Chinese computer ne

台湾地震互联网受伤

An undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan damaged underwater communications cables, hurting technology and banking services in much of Asia. All data and voice traffic had to go through the remaining undamaged cables and satellites, slowing dow

中国央行提高银行准备金防止潜在危机

China's central bank has raised the reserve requirement for banks in order to cut back on the amount of lending currently taking place in that country. Their economy was growing so quickly that many worried that a financial crash would come before t

NASDAQ步步紧逼， LSE力抗收购

The London Stock Exchange does not want to sell out to the American stock exchange NASDAQ, and NASDAQ is trying even harder to buy them. On Thursday, NASDAQ told LSE shareholders that they had a week to encourage LSE management to begin talks with N

澳门2006年博彩业大丰收

Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, had more gambling revenue in 2006 than the Las Vegas Strip, making it the biggest gambling center in the world. Located on China's south coast, Macau is only ten square miles

业绩糟糕GAP CEO被炒鱿鱼

After a terrible holiday season, American clothing retailer Gap Inc. fired Chief Executive Officer Paul Pressler with a $14 million retirement package. In addition to Gap clothing stores, the 3,100-store chain includes the Old Navy and Banana Republ

壳牌伊朗开发计划或遭美政府制裁

The energy company Royal Dutch Shell and the Spanish energy company Repsol have signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Iran's state oil company to develop gas fields in the Persian gulf, but the deal may lead to sanctions from the United States. Ru

重新披挂上阵戴尔能扭转局面吗

A Dell is running Dell again. Michael Dell, who began Dell Inc. by building computers in his University of Texas dorm room for other students, is moving back into the position of chief executive at the company. He replaces Kevin Rollins after a year

微软发行Vista

Microsoft has released Vista, the long-delayed new version of their Windows operating system. In addition to a more three-dimensional user interface, other improvements advertised by Microsoft include better security, easier creation of multimedia D

两只苹果结束争吵达成协议

Apple and Apple have settled their long trademark dispute. Steve Jobs' company, which just renamed themselves from Apple Computer to Apple Inc., and Apple Corps, the company that has overseen the interests of British pop group the Beatles since they

欧盟瞄上苹果 称iPod和iTunes捆绑不合适

European Union consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva recently criticized Apple Incorporated's iTunes service. She told the German weekly magazine Focus Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that a song purchased from iT

次优级贷款阴云笼罩美国市场

Subprime loans are high-interest loans made to borrowers with bad credit ratings. Now that the US housing market bubble has burst, more of these borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages, and this is causing big problems for subprime lenders and p

星巴克会不会搬出故宫

China's Forbidden City may become forbidden for the Starbucks chain of coffee shops. Chinese nationalists have protested the Starbucks outlet in the Imperial Palace since it opened in 2000, and an online campaign begun by a television host has led t

国内国外企业统一25%所得税

For over twenty years, China has encouraged foreign investment by charging foreign corporations a tax rate as low as 15% while local businesses had to pay 33%. After mounting complaints from Chinese companies, the country's legislature has changed t

BBC将向YouTube提供新闻和娱乐视频

The British Broadcasting Corporation became the first international broadcaster to cut a deal with Google-owned video website YouTube. By showing three channels of their news and entertainment content on YouTube, the BBC hopes to drive web traffic t

空客大量裁员员工抗议

Airbus has made it official that they are selling all or part of six European plants and cutting 10,000 jobs in France, Germany, Spain, and Britain. Employees at three German plants and four French plants stopped working for several hours in protest

中国股市暴跌牵动道琼斯指数

The Shanghai stock index went down 9% last Tuesday and then brought down European and American stock markets with it. Rumors that the Chinese government would impose a 20% capital gains tax encouraged a sell-off. A report by the US Commerce Departme

印度人不欢迎Wal-Mart

American retail giant Wal-Mart is even closer to setting up a chain of supermarkets across India in partnership with Indian mobile phone company Bharti Enterprises, and many people in India are not happy about it. Bharti chairman Sunil Mittal told r

戴姆勒-克莱斯勒准备卖掉克莱斯勒

The German automaker DaimlerChrysler made over $7 billion last year, but the American Chrysler division that they acquired in 1998 lost nearly $1.5 billion and has announced plant closings and a cut of 13,000 US jobs. Now, there is talk of Chrysler

七国集团看好下一轮多哈谈判

The G7 group, a collection of finance ministers from leading industrialized nations, recently met in Essen, Germany. Several members made hopeful statements about the possibility that the next round of talks first held in Doha, Qatar, would lower tr