经济学人:空气污染:吹走它(1)

Science and technology: Air pollution: Blown away 科技：空气污染：吹走它 Retired jet engines could help clear the smog that smothered big cities. 退役喷射发动机可以用来驱逐笼罩大城市的雾霾。 To land at Indira Gandhi A

经济学人:一周经济要闻18

The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 In its biggest acquisition yet, Apple agreed to pay 3 billion for Beats Electronics, a specialist in pricey headphones and music-streaming. 在迄今最大的一笔收购中，苹果公司斥资30亿美元

顺丰速运创始人成中国第三大富豪

The founder of a Chinese courier group whose company went public on Friday is now worth $27.5bn, making him the countrys third-richest man. 上周五上市的一家中国快递集团的创始人的身家如今达到275亿美元，使其成为中国第三

2007年VOA标准英语-Nigeria's Ogoni People Resist Oil Companies

By Nico Colombant Ogoniland, Nigeria 26 May 2007 Market women share anti-oil company feelings In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, one area, Ogoniland in Rivers State, resists oil production. Residents there say oil companies refuse to meet their deman

股价飙升 中国多了41个亿万富翁

China has 41 brand new billionaires thanks to a surge in share prices. 股价的飙升让中国新增了41位亿万富翁。 The recent surge in share prices on the mainland has created at least 41 new super-rich people in the nation whose individual

中国亿万富翁人数首超美国！王健林再成首富

Chinese billionaires outnumber those in the Unites States for the first time. 中国亿万富翁人数首度超过美国。 China now boasts 596 billionaires - 60 more than the U.S.- after a staggering 242 Chinese people became billionaires for the f

中国将为墨西哥建造首条高铁

A Chinese-led consortium has won a contract for a multi-billion dollar high-speed passenger rail link between Mexico City and the central city of Queretaro. China Railway Construction has teamed up with China Southern Rail in a consortium of companie

郭广昌 P2P基本上都是骗局

Guo Guangchang, Chinas self-styled Warren Buffett, yesterday called the countrys Rmb440bn ($65.9bn) peer-to-peer lending market basically a scam, becoming the latest figure to attack an industry that has been plagued by scandal. 自命中国的沃伦

标普下调复星评级展望至负面

Samp;P yesterday lowered its outlook on Fosun Internationals BB-minus rating to negative, illustrating that even rating agencies cannot agree on the risks of a debt-fuelled deal spree. 标准普尔(Samp;P)昨日将复星国际(Fosun International)的评

世界互联网巨头孙正义 商界冒险家

Masayoshi Son, the risk-addicted billionaire who built Japans SoftBank into a global internet powerhouse, is a man who moves fast to seize whatever he has set his eyes on. 孙正义(Masayoshi Son)一旦看中什么目标，就会迅速出击。这位爱

做自己 股神巴菲特的成功之道

When Warren Buffett was 25 years old, he had accumulated about $2 million in today's dollars. 当沃伦巴菲特25岁的时候，他所积累的财富就已经相当于今天的200万美元左右。 He had achieved his childhood goal of assured finan

乐天集团遭到更多突击搜查

BBC News South Korean prosecutors carried out further raids on businesses of the Lotte Group, a sprawling conglomerate at the centre of a bribery probe. At least 10 divisions were raided including its chemical and confectionary businesses, a spokesma

BP计划出售上海赛科石化股权

BP is planning to sell one of its biggest Chinese investments, by disposing of the UK energy companys 50 per cent stake in the Secco petrochemicals plant near Shanghai. 英国石油(BP)正计划出售其在中国的最大投资项目之一，处置这家

Chinese ICT Companies Going Abroad

Now, the last piece of series on the US government decision to restrict the procurement of Chinese information technology products over fear about so-called cyber security. Insiders and experts are making their suggestions on how Chinese companies ac

经济学人:印度的非银行金融 (1)

CAN a big financial firm's credit rating fall from AAA one monthgood enough for pension funds and life insurersto junk the next without causing a crash? 一个大型金融公司的信用评级在一个月内从AAA对养老基金和寿险公司而言足

Sing Out China launched

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Sing Out China, the Chinese edition of wildly popular global television phenomenon The X Factor, was launched on Sunday under the aegis of British TV impresario Simon Cowell, who is serving as lead producer of the Chi

海航洽购入股耆卫资产管理公司

Old Mutual has received new approaches for its $900m controlling stake in its US asset management business, from potential buyers including Chinas HNA Group, TPG and Advent. 耆卫(Old Mutual)拟出售在旗下美国资产管理公司所持的价值9亿

英国不能出售自己通向荣耀的道路

Since Britain voted to leave the EU, there has been a tendency to be downbeat about the countrys economic and industrial prospects. The decision by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank to spend ￡24bn on buying Arm Holdings seems in this light a welco

经济学人:中国的消费大军 依旧活跃(上)

China's consumers 中国的消费大军 Still kicking 依旧活跃 Despite China's economic slowdown, consumption is resilient 尽管中国经济放缓，消费仍旧具备活力 IF YOU believe that China's economy is in trouble and that Chinese cons

经济学人327:三星 韩国巨头新年出师不利

Business 商业报道 Samsung 三星 Fluffed lines 忘词 The South Korean giant has a lousy start to the new year 韩国巨头新年出师不利 THE last 51 weeks of 2014 will be better than the first one. 2014年过去的51周都比新年的第一周