Every company nowadays is eyeing for business expansion. Therefore, employees are dispatched or even the managers themselves are driven at an increasingly frequent basis to various places around. But is that the most efficient way? Have any of those company managers and employees ever calculated exactly how much would that long distance travel cost?
Let’s analyze it in details:
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INVITATION FOR BIDS
Loan No. 2146-PRC
1. The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (hereinafter called the ADB) in various currencies towards the cost of Coal Mine Methane Development Project. It is intended that part of the proceeds of this loan will be applied to eligible payments under the contract.
2. China International Tendering Company (ITC), for and on behalf of Jincheng CMM Comprehensive Utilization Co., Ltd, invites sealed Read more…
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According to a survey from Paris, under the pressure of world economic crisis, many French families had to pay special attention to their budget in planning their summer holidays, previous luxurious plans like spending the holiday on the beach would, perhaps, be crossed out.
Given the survey by Opinion Way polling firm, only 62% of the French had holiday plans, compared with 73% the year before. Furthermore, 21% of the Read more…
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The ministry of Education promised to punish the officials in schools who get their children in college by using other students’ ID.
Wang Zhengrong has been arrested for his action of make up official documents to get the ID of Luo Caixia illegally .He also got the admission letter from Guizhou normal University which belongs to Luo Caixia. His daughter entered the university with this stolen letter in 2004 and graduated with the teaching certificate which was taken away when Wang Zhengrong was seized. In this crime, Read more…
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After the Chinese government blocked Coca-Cola’s $2.4 billion bid for China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd, Huiyuan’s share price had a sheer drop in Hong Kong on March 19, 2009.
Huiyuan’s shares dropped by HK$3.49 per share, or 42.05%, to close at HK$4.80 apiece. In early trading, the company’s shares dropped 53% at one point to the day’s lowest level of $3.88. After having been suspended since March 11, 2009, the stock continued trading on March 19, 2009.
The recent price fall was in a sharp contrast to its performance in the past several months after the announcement of the Coca-Cola bid. Huiyuan’s shared price had doubled since September in 2008 after the beverage giant of America offered a deal of HK$ 12.2 in cash for each of Huiyuan’s listed Read more…
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HSBC Holdings said on March 2, 2009 that it would raise a total of $17.7 billion in new capital from shareholders in a rights issue to strengthen its financial structure after reporting a more than 50% fall in 2008 earnings and, as expected, a surge in bad debts in the US.
The largest bank in Europe is in the process of offering 5.1 billion new shares at 254 pence apiece, or a 48% discount on Friday’s closing price, for subscription by its current shareholders. In Hong Kong, the issue price per new share is HK$28, or a 50.2% discount on its Friday close of HK$56.95.
Stephen Green, the Group Chairman, disagreed that the rights issue had appeared too late. He said it was the right time when they got the information about their performance in 2008.
Douglas Flint, the HSBC finance director, Read more…
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Reducing costs and increasing profits top the originally positive results expected from the internet in business industry. Indeed, the thriving of the internet has absolutely generated prodigious benefits to numerous companies. Nevertheless, while enjoying the bountiful fruits, more and more company managers are showing their deep concerns towards the adverse impact spawned by the double-edged sword. Shopping on-line, private e-mailing…–the convenient access to the internet at work unexpectedly tempts many employees to conduct various impersonal affairs on company computers-and on company time. Take a brief look at the following figures:
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Situated in the northern part of Jiangsu Province, China and under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Suqian, Siyang County is an old city with a civilized history of 5,000 years and a county history of 2,000 years. It was once the capital of Sishui State during the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD24). Yanghe Daqu, one of the eight famous Chinese liquors, originated from here. It is also the only “County of the poplar tree”. The Jinghang Canal and the ancient Yellow River cross Read more…
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