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...
BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- China's small businesses turned to be the first to ring the alarm as the country is walking a fine line between fighting inflation and maintaining growth. Some entrepreneurs have disappeared and others have jumped off...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- A Singapore start-up firm has devised an innovative application to allow phone users to have access to their positioning information within buildings, where traditional global positioning system has often proved inaccur...
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...
BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A biotechnology(生物技术) company says it can produce diesel using the same ingredients(配制成分) that make grass grow, media reported on Monday. The Massachusetts company Joule Unlimited has created a genetica...
Ⅲ. Firm Offers 实盘 Firm offers are made when a seller promises to sell goods at a stated price and within a stated period of time. A firm offer will include the following: (1) an expression of thanks for the enquiry, if any; (2) name of commodit...
Ann. 陈豪在北京的一家美国公司工作。今天他正在往自己的办公室走，突然看见了公司里的美籍华人Mary。他正好有个问题要请教她。 (Office ambience) 陈: 哎，Mary， do you have a minute? M: Sure. What is...
By Steve Mort Hollywood, Florida 20 July 2007 A company in the southern U.S. state of Florida is offering a service to help people write their own laws. For a fee, the Law Store will help members of the public draft legislation and then get it enacte...
It's All Things Considered. I am Melissa Block. And I'm Robert Siegel. Today the State of South Carolina opened a new trade office more than 7 thousand miles away from the statehouse. It's in Shanghai. Trade with China has been a sore subject in Sout...
The Chinese offshore oil corporation known as CNOOC has abandoned its bid for UNOCAL. This would have been the largest-ever purchase of an American company by a Chinese firm. CNOOC had put forth a bid that was higher than the competing bid from US o...
