Arctic Warming Means Battles for Shipping and Riches

At the top of the world, under the ice, lies a large number of natural resources. Gas, coal, uranium and other minerals, even diamonds, sit under the ice inside the Arctic Circle. As climate change pushes the cold and ice farther north each year, dis

VOA标准英语 US Charter Firms Expect Rise in Cuba Travel Traffic

U.S. charter companies are readying for a surge in the numbers of Cuban-Americans seeking to travel to the Cuba, now that President Obama has dropped restrictions on family visits. Supporters of the decision say ending the 2004 restrictions may help

美国国家公共电台 NPR Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: These days, not even doctor visits are safe from data tracking by advertisers. As Bobby Allyn of member station WHYY reports, personal injury law firms in particular see opportunity there, while others see an invasion of privacy. B

经济学人71:私募股权融资

Private equity 私募股权融资 Tax attack 税收攻击 Leveraged buy-outs face legal scrutiny 衡平收购面临法律审查 Aug 24th 2013 |From the print edition TAX planners at private-equity firms are having an unusually busy summer. A fiscal r

2007年VOA标准英语-US City Expected to Block Money to Firms Linked

By Brian Wagner Miami 11 July 2007 The U.S. city of Miami Beach is to vote on whether to block public pension funds from investing in firms linked to the governments of Iran and Sudan. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports officials are expected to ap

2014年券商利润大增

BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese brokerage firms saw surging profits in 2014 boosted by easing measures from policymakers, the Securities Association of China (SAC) said. Combined net profits of 120 brokerage firms totaled 96.55 billion yuan (15.

通知书 合并

通知书 合并 下列署名人, 谨此通知各位顾客, 自即日起以前以F.与T.命名的两公司合并为B.公司,继续营业。 We the undersigned, herewith inform all our esteemed correspondents that the two firms which have carried on b

前台接待Receptionist英文简历

Cindy Liu 15/F,TOWER2 ,BRIGHT CHINA, BUILDING1, BEIJING QUALIFICATIONS: Over 2 years secretarial/administrative experience. Extensive business experience including accounting firms,legal firms,financial firms,insurance companies,transportation compan

China expands lending to fund-hungry small firms

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese banks have extended more loans to small firms to ease their financial predicaments as the government tightens monetary supply, a banking regulator said Wednesday. Outstanding loans to small firms grew 26.6 percen

China's huge market both good and bad for local IT firms: Lee Kai-Fu

SINGAPORE, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The huge market of China can be both a blessing and a curse for local information technology firms, said Lee Kai-Fu, founder of Innovation Works and former president of Google China. Speaking at the FutureChina Global Fo

China Helps Private Firms to Stay out of Debt Problems

A prominent Chinese entrepreneur who fled the country due to a debt crisis has returned home. The Chinese government has promised to help private firms to facilitate raising capital and allow these firms to borrow more money from banks during the cur

China reiterates enhanced support for small firms

BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's Cabinet, on Thursday required local authorities to take further steps in enhancing fiscal and tax support for the country's small and micro-sized companies and relieving their financing diff

经济学人169:惠普的远大宏景

Business 商业报道 HP's grand vision 惠普的远大宏景 Aping IBM 效仿IBM HP needs to transform itself if it is to avoid becoming obsolete 若想避免被淘汰，惠普需要自我更新 WHEN the board of HP, the world's largest computer-mak

经济学人:英国航天工业 飞行计划

Britain's aerospace industry 英国航天工业 Flight plan 飞行计划 Can Britain remain a planemaking superpower? 英国能维持飞机制造强国地位吗？ THE sleek de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial passenger jet, was designed

Banks urged to better serve real economy

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese leaders on Friday urged banks to improve financial services for the country's real economy, especially agriculture and small firms. China's economic transition and restructuring have set higher requirements for the

China to give further support to small, micro-sized firms

BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's State Council, or the Cabinet, on Wednesday called for more efforts to support the sound development of small and micro-sized enterprises. Small and micro-sized firms serve as a significant channel for creating job

经济学人:IBM的反叛呼喊(2)

Red Hat's OpenShift is supposed to create an uber-cloud, 红帽子的OpenShift程序有望创造出一个超级云， allowing computing workloads to run anywhere: whether it is in corporate data centres, on any of the big public clouds or a combinat

经济学人:北海 油尽气绝

The North Sea 北海 Running on fumes 油尽气绝 Scottish nationalists are right to charge that Britain has mismanaged North Sea oil. Unionists are probably right to retort that the alternative would be worse 苏格兰民族主义者们明确指出英

金融英语：常用句型

1.Economics studies those aspects of human behavior relating to working, producing goods, distributing them, and consuming them. 经济学是研究人类商品生产、分配以及消费行为的科学。 2.Because of scarcity, each of us is forced t

经济学人336:生物科技 持续升温

Business 商业报道 Biotechnology 生物科技 Fever rising 持续升温 There are reasons to hope that the latest biotech boom will not be followed by another bust 我们有理由相信此次生物技术的繁荣不会伴随一次衰退 AS INVESTO