《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。
The city council of Birmingham, England, is prosecuting candy and beverage company Cadbury Schweppes for manufacturing and selling chocolate contaminated with salmonella bacteria last year. The company recalled more than one million chocolate bars,...
Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate the News Corporation has bid $5 billion for Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal newspaper. There had been no announcement that Dow Jones was available for sale. Although the Dow Jones board of...
The News Corporation is not the only media conglomerate trying to buy a well-known financial news publisher. British news and financial information provider Reuters announced that Canada's Thomson Corporation has made a bid to buy them out. Thomson...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez celebrated May Day, the international workers' holiday, by issuing a decree that transferred control of the country's last privately owned oil fields to government control. The state will own at least 60% of every oil...
When investigations began looking into corruption charges at 160 year-old German technology company Siemens AG, Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld pledged to restore the company's reputation. When the company's supervisory board wanted to postpone disc...
For the first quarter of 2007, Toyota sold 2.35 million cars, more than any other auto maker in the world. U.S. company General Motors had held the title of world's top auto seller since 1931, not counting two brief periods in the 1970s and 1980s wh...
Millions of people in North America, Asia, and Europe lost access to their email for up to 12 hours when a software upgrade caused problems with central systems at Canadian company Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry email device. The softwa...
The British pound's value reached its highest point against the US dollar in 26 years. On Tuesday, the pound was worth two United States dollars for the first time since 1992, and the dollar later slipped to its lowest point against the pound since...
Search engine Google has made the biggest deal in their history, outbidding Microsoft to pay $3.1 billion for web ad supplier DoubleClick. Until now, Google's advertising business has focused on small advertisers, but DoubleClick's relationships wit...
A chocolate company is buying a baby food company from a drug company. Swiss company Nestle is the world's biggest food and drink company; they're known primarily in the United States for the brand of chocolate with the company's name on it. They ha...
European leaders are pressuring Paul Wolfowitz to resign his position as Wold Bank president. Wolfowitz, who has withheld World Bank loans from several countries until they show greater progress in fighting corruption, recently arranged for his girl...
Computer company Apple Inc. had claimed that it was the record companies decision, not theirs, to offer music on their iTunes service that could only be played on their iPod player. Apple and the EMI music company have just announced that songs from...
Two North American mobile phone companies are trying to buy a controlling interest in Telecom Italia, Italy's largest telephone company, but there are complications. US company ATT and Mexico's America Mvil have made a combined offer of 4.5 billion...
German sports car maker Porsche exercised an option on 3.6% of stock in German car maker Volkswagen. Because this puts their ownership in VW over 30%, German law required Porsche to make a takeover offer to other VW shareholders, so they did: 101 pe...
An executive board member of the German technology company Siemens has been arrested as part of a bribery investigation. Johannes Feldmayer is accused of paying 34 million to Wilhelm Schelsky, the former head of the AUB trade union who is now in jai...
