礼节美语 Business Etiquette 186 Ponzi Scheme (1)

Ken早上在饮水器旁见到同事Dan和April. K: Good morning, Dan. Good morning, April. DA: Hi, Ken. Good morning. K: So...have you heard the big news? A: No! Tell us! K: Well, you know Jason Smith? D: You mean our company's Chief Financial Offic

:英国海军的潜艇设计像真正海洋生物

British Navy Submarine Designs Look Like Real Sea Creatures New images released by Britains Royal Navy show how future submarines could look and move like real sea creatures. The designs were created by young British engineers and scientists. They we

126.An Excellent Scheme

After 20 years as a pilot, I became an airport manger and soon found the stress was getting to me. I needed a release and wanted to buy a motorcycle, but my family thought it was too dangerous. My wif

日本打算重启TPP

Japan is ready to relaunch the Trans-Pacific Partnership minus the US in a shift of position that could bring the huge trade deal back from the dead. 日本准备在美国缺席的情况下重启《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》(Trans-Pacific Part

乔布斯传 第462期:蒂姆·库克(3)

After three months of working under Jobs, Apple's head of operations decided he could not bear the pressure, and he quit. 在和乔布斯工作了3个月之后，苹果公司的运营主管因为不堪压力而辞职。 For almost a year Jobs ran ope

Pyramid vs. Ponzi Scheme. Which One Is Worse?

Pyramid vs. Ponzi Scheme. Which One Is Worse? And now for the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories. When you work hard for your money, you do not want to lose it. And if you invest your hard-earned money, you want to see great return

有争议的水稻方案使泰国执政党的声望有所影响 Controversial Rice Scheme Risks Thai Ruling Party's Popularity

VOA常速英语2014--Controversial Rice Scheme Risks Thai Ruling Party's Popularity 有争议的水稻方案使泰国执政党的声望有所影响 BANGKOK Thailand's unfinished election means the current caretaker government cannot create any new de

奥巴马每日发言on Procurement(2009-03-04)

暂无音频 Remarks by the President on Procurement Room 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 10:20 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Even if these were the best of times, budget reform would be long overdue in Washington. And we have

新西兰英语 55 Emissions Trading Scheme

The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could become law later this week or early next week. This scheme is a plan to cut greenhouse gases by making businesses pay for their carbon dioxide emissions, that is the CO2 which they put into the air. There will

Trading Scheme Costs Swiss Bank $2 Billion

Police in London say they have arrested a man accused in an unauthorized trading scheme that allegedly cost Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion. Police say Kweku Adoboli, 31, was taken into custody Thursday on the suspicion of abusing his position to com

HP to keep PC business

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard(HP) on Thursday announced that it will keep its personal systems group ( PSG) and continue to sell personal computers. HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spin

越南出口中国的农产品稳定增长

Pingxiang City in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders with Vietnam and is home to many companies trading Vietnamese agricultural products. Chen Kangli manages a company in Pingxiang that mainly engages in trade of Vietnamese fruits

Gov't to curb corruption in medical procurement

Gov't to curb corruption in medical procurement BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Authorities have pledged to further crack down on illegal activity regarding procurement procedures at local hospitals that are under the supervision of local governments, m

中国彩票资金遭挪用

According to the report published by the National Audit Office, the problematic money constituted more than a quarter of the lottery funds reviewed in the audit. Authorities say irregularities included embezzlement, fraud, illegal subsidies for staff

Foreign software equally treated in government procurement: official

BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese copyright official said on Tuesday that foreign providers received equal treatment during a massive government procurement of licensed software. From late 2010, the Chinese central and provincial governme

《经济学人》博文 亚投行为何而生？

To the alphabet soup of international development banks (ADB, AfDB, CAF, EBRD, IADB), add one more set of initials: AIIB, or for the uninitiated, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. On October 24th, representatives from 21 Asian nations signed

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

China government 2011 procurement totals 1.13 trln yuan

BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- China's government procurement amounted to 1.13 trillion yuan (179.37 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, or 11 percent of the country's fiscal expenditure, the Ministry of Finance announced on Friday. The figure showed a huge

私营企业引领中国海外投资

BOAO, Hainan, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese private firms are seeing new expansion abroad and already lead China's investment overseas, Chris Lu, CEO of Deloitte China, said on Saturday at a forum in south China's Hainan Province. The 2013 Boao Forum f

China to expand government procurement program

BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- China will try to expand the scope and scale of its government procurement program and continue to push for reforms in the area this year, China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday. While pledging to further improve l