Giving lucky money in electronic form has become a trendy spin on the Chinese tradition of giving red envelopes of cash, or hongbao, to children to mark Lunar New Year's Eve. Stats from Alipay, Alibaba's e-payment system, shows over 100 million peopl

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

HONG KONG Over the past year, A2, an Australian milk company, made an unexpected discovery: A sharp increase in domestic sales came courtesy of Chinese bulk buyers, not Australian mothers. 香港澳大利亚牛奶公司A2在过去的一年里有一个意

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- AOL's chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Armstrong has reached out to Yahoo for talks of a merger of the two companies, U.S. media reported on Friday. Armstrong is discussing options for a combination aimed at streng

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's State Council has announced it will create a 40 billion yuan or 6.5 billion U.S. dollar fund to spur innovation. The government-initiated scheme aims to attract social capital investment. After an open bidding process, several fund management

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The so-called one-child policy was brought into law in the late 1970's as a way to limit population growth, given that the economy at the time was just starting to open up to the outside world, and the domestic resources, particularly in urban areas,

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The employment report released by China's largest recruitment site, zhaopin.com, is based on an index which looks at job supply and demand in the country's labor market. On a national level, first-quarter job vacancies received an average of 26.1 res

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Speaking with the media this week, the Commerce Ministry's Shen Danyang notes the European Union remains China's largest trading partner and an important investment partner, while Britain still holds the distinction of being China's second largest tr

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- An Alibaba-backed private lender said on Monday that its focus on providing financial services to clients who are underserved by traditional banks has resulted in billions in loans to small businesses and individuals over

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

2012年,世界末日(The End of the World)还没有到来,求职者的寒冬已然降临! 宝洁(Procter Gamble)裁员5700人!百事可乐(Pepsi)裁员8700人!诺基亚(Nokia)裁员1.7万人! 一个个裁员(redundancy; layoffs; job cut;

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

1. President Barack Obama is offering his birth control plan so that religious employers won't have to cover the cost. Instead, he shifts that responsibility to insurance companies, who will have to provide free contraception. 2. An Islamic extremist

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After a weekend where tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets to denounce corporate greed and budget cuts, some protests are still lingering across Europe. CRI's Ding Lulu has more. Hundreds of police officers, fire-fighters and members o

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In the event of an accident, taxi drivers face possible bankruptcy since many are not protected by commercial insurance, and would be required to pay not only compensation to the accident victim, but also a penalty from the traffic administration. [P

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BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- After a year of bitter rivalry, a merger between two Chinese major taxi hailing apps on Valentine's Day was the day's biggest surprise. Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, both start ups, announced that they would put their diff

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Having ceded the battle of the gadgets to Korea and the U.S., Japan's electronics titans need to reinvent themselves -- this time as our great protectors, apparently. 日本电子巨头在手持设备之战输给韩国和美国之后,急需重塑自我

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The French parliament is debating a bill that would grant the country's spies more power to track phones and emails inside the country. France's ruling Socialists are pushing forward the proposal, which would allow the country's intelligence agencies

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

很多人认为,到目前为止在人类的发展史上,是欧洲人引领了世界。有时,即便是美国人也要向他们看齐。不久前,法国总统萨科奇的行为就是个不错的例子--他试图立法强制让公司董事会这个

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When Wang Jianlin took Wanda Commercial Properties public in Hong Kong in 2014, the $3.7bn flotation marked something of a coming out for the tycoon. Known on the mainland for his Wanda Plaza developments, he was starting to gain an international rep

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. And I'm Melissa Block. This week, we're exploring the many ways you share personal information with the digital universe, whether you know it or not. When you search online, when you shop,

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

优雅地处理问题也许真能让面试官印象深刻,不过,如果实在控制不了局面, 那就往前看, 把精力放在下一次机上。这是一条学习经验,日后也会成为一则笑料--如果你有勇气回想的话。 Fo

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Business 商业报道 Schumpeter 熊彼得 Fighting the flab 减肥大作战 Corporate headquarters have put on weight, and need to slim down again 企业的总部体积膨胀,需要再次瘦身 ONE of the most extraordinary corporate centres in Am

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