《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。
After scheduling delays, wiring problems, and order cancellations, the Airbus A380 super-jumbo jet is finally ready to fly. For its maiden voyage, a Lufthansa A380 took about 400 Lufthansa and Airbus employees and 60 reporters and photographers from...
Leading computer database software maker Oracle is suing SAP, the German company known for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Oracle, which has been moving into the ERP market themselves, accuses employees at SAP's TomorrowNow subsid...
European Union consumer affairs commissioner Meglena Kuneva recently criticized Apple Incorporated's iTunes service. She told the German weekly magazine Focus Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that a song purchased from iT...
Subprime loans are high-interest loans made to borrowers with bad credit ratings. Now that the US housing market bubble has burst, more of these borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages, and this is causing big problems for subprime lenders and p...
China's Forbidden City may become forbidden for the Starbucks chain of coffee shops. Chinese nationalists have protested the Starbucks outlet in the Imperial Palace since it opened in 2000, and an online campaign begun by a television host has led t...
For over twenty years, China has encouraged foreign investment by charging foreign corporations a tax rate as low as 15% while local businesses had to pay 33%. After mounting complaints from Chinese companies, the country's legislature has changed t...
The British Broadcasting Corporation became the first international broadcaster to cut a deal with Google-owned video website YouTube. By showing three channels of their news and entertainment content on YouTube, the BBC hopes to drive web traffic t...
Airbus has made it official that they are selling all or part of six European plants and cutting 10,000 jobs in France, Germany, Spain, and Britain. Employees at three German plants and four French plants stopped working for several hours in protest...
The Shanghai stock index went down 9% last Tuesday and then brought down European and American stock markets with it. Rumors that the Chinese government would impose a 20% capital gains tax encouraged a sell-off. A report by the US Commerce Departme...
American retail giant Wal-Mart is even closer to setting up a chain of supermarkets across India in partnership with Indian mobile phone company Bharti Enterprises, and many people in India are not happy about it. Bharti chairman Sunil Mittal told r...
Rumors are flying about who will buy the American auto company Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler, their German parent company. Car makers Volkswagen, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Fiat, and Renault-Nissan have all announced that they are not interested. Most rum...
The German automaker DaimlerChrysler made over $7 billion last year, but the American Chrysler division that they acquired in 1998 lost nearly $1.5 billion and has announced plant closings and a cut of 13,000 US jobs. Now, there is talk of Chrysler...
The G7 group, a collection of finance ministers from leading industrialized nations, recently met in Essen, Germany. Several members made hopeful statements about the possibility that the next round of talks first held in Doha, Qatar, would lower tr...
The American stock exchange NASDAQ is giving up on their hostile takeover attempt for the London Stock Exchange. They had insisted that LSE shares were overvalued and that the $24.35 per share that they offered was fair, but they only received accep...
In December of 2004, IBM sold their personal computer division to Chinese computer company Lenovo for $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock. IBM has just sold off 300 million shares of Lenovo stock, going from a 13.2% ownership in the compa...
