《初级商务英语听力》主要涉及到商务领域的常见话题，为学习者提供了大量真实、生动的英语素材，使学习者在提高英语听说技能的同时也涉猎国际商务知识。
《初级商务英语听力》可作为大学英语专业及英语相关专业的学生学习商务英语的材料，也可作为其他专业对商务英语有兴趣的学生选修课使用教材。
Thirteen years after Russia began trying to join the World Trade Organization, the United States has ended their attempts to block Russia's membership. According to US trade representative Susan Schwab, We have an agreement in principle and are fina...
China has agreed to buy $25 billion worth of liquefied natural gas over the next 25 years from the Malaysian national oil and gas company known as Petronas (short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad). The Chinese want to increase their use of natural gas...
British Petroleum has put someone new in charge of their operations in Alaska, where they spilled 800,000 gallons of oil in March and where they shut down the biggest oil field in the United States in August because of pipeline corrosion. BP is the...
The problems that Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, and other laptop makers have had with Sony battery recalls have finally caught up with Sony. That plus development costs for their upcoming PS3 video game machine gave Sony a 94% drop in profits for th...
Things look bad for two of America's big three automakers, and only a little better for the third. Ford Motor Company reported a $5.8 billion loss for the third quarter of this year, their worst quarterly loss in fourteen years. Analysts expect thei...
Viacom, the parent company of MTV and many other American cable television channels, has struck a deal with China's biggest search engine to provide television and music content to Baidu's customers. The Baidu search engine has been called the Googl...
Another American company moving into China is Wal-Mart. The American store chain is bidding one billion dollars to buy one hundred hypermarkets (a combination of supermarket and department store) in China from Trust-Mart, a Taiwanese company. Althou...
Several days after Columbia University's Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theories about the relationship between inflation and unemployment, the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to a man with some useful ideas about economics. Mu...
Twenty months after founding the video website YouTube, founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have accepted a $1.65 billion offer for the company from search engine Google. YouTube has become famous for providing videos of everything from last night's...
The growing international business of online betting is looking for customers outside of the United States. Although the US has been the largest market for Internet gambling companies, a new bill just passed by Congress in that country has made it i...
US auto maker General Motors will not become part of the Renault-Nissan alliance. Instead of continuing their negotiations until October 15th, as they had announced, GM chief executive Rick Wagoner called Carlos Ghosn, who runs French auto company R...
The European Union has admitted its last two new members for several years. The EU, a confederation of European countries joined together for greater cooperation on economic, agricultural, and other policy issues, will make Bulgaria and Romania the...
A US judge has given approval for a class action suit by American cigarette smokers against several tobacco companies for deceptive advertising. The suit, which seeks damages of up to $200 billion, claims that advertising for cigarettes sold as ligh...
This week's good news for Italian telecommunications company Telecom Italia is that they are buying AOL's biggest subsidiary for 675 million euros: AOL's German division, which has over one million DSL subscribers. This fits well with Telecom Italia...
Merck of Germany announced plans to buy Swiss Pharmaceutical company Serono for 10.6 billion euros. Earlier this year Merck failed to acquire German competitor Schering, and recently pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis had...
