“Toyota Smells Blood in the Water” plus 6 more |
- Toyota Smells Blood in the Water
- World’s Six Worst Pirates
- Biting and Killing the Hand that Feeds You
- Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) recruitment 2010, apply online
- 5 Positive Impacts the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games will Have on China’s Economy
- Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel receive 15 wedding gifts, totalling $54,000 plus
- Online Travel Companies in China Don’t Have Level Playing Field
| Toyota Smells Blood in the Water Posted: 21 Sep 2010 10:39 AM PDT
Toyota smells blood. GM and Ford are closing up shop in the south and Toyota is on the prowl, looking to open up another factory in one of the southern states of the US. Last year, Toyota sold more than 2 million vehicles in the US, right behind Chrysler for number 3 in the States. San Antonio is the new site of a pick-up truck plant and in 2008, Toyota will begin producing its RAV4 in Ontario, just to the north. With 10′s of thousands of auto workers laid off by the big two, the learning curve is not likely to be too hard for any new workers that Toyota finds, making it easier for them open up shop and harder for GM and Ford IF they ever get things turned around. Toyota does things right. When will US Auto Workers learn and get themselves back on track?
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:39 AM PDT
The Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy group, including multinationals, General Electric, Vivendi Universal, EMI Group, and Microsoft cited lax government enforcement as the primary cause of intellectual property theft. The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) says, "Counterfeiting and piracy exact costs, including lost profit, exceeding $100 billion a year and can endanger health and safety with goods such as medicines." Two-thirds of all counterfeit goods seized in the European Union come from China. The other bottom-performing countries – Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam and Pakistan. Russia is so bad that piracy is one of the major stumbling blocks to the country joining the 150-state World Trade Organization. Guy Sebban, head of the International Chamber of Commerce, says ""We need to educate policy-makers that greater investment in (intellectual property) enforcement will translate into more jobs and tax revenues, and also help them in the fight against organized crime." Nobody but the pirates win when something is stolen. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Biting and Killing the Hand that Feeds You Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:37 AM PDT
I reckon feeding an animal for eight years doesn't mean anything...to some animals. A zookeeper in China who had looked after a tiger for eight years found himself on the wrong end of the beasts fangs. While cleaning the animal's cage, the tiger, apparently agitated because the mating part of the mating season wasn't going well, pounced on the 42-year old man, bit him in the leg and neck…and then his life was history. The man was caught off guard when he bent over to pick up a broom. It causes us to wonder…just how much trust can be built in a 'wild animal'? Or can trust be earned at all. Or is it because the tiger had other things on its mind?
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| Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) recruitment 2010, apply online Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:13 AM PDT
The company is located at Mumbai, India and is a Fortune 500 company listed at number 311 HPCL operates 2 major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum fuels & specialties, one in Mumbai of 6.5 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum capacity and the other in Vishakapatna\ The marketing network of HPCL consists of 13 Zonal offices in major cities and 101 Regional offices
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| 5 Positive Impacts the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games will Have on China’s Economy Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:36 PM PDT
Are the Olympic Games really good for the local economy of the host city/country? Indeed they are. 1. Business will boom leading up to the Games. Think construction projects, tourism and service industry preparations. 2. Business will boom during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Millions are expected from within China. A half million from outside of the country. 3. There is sure to be some residual benefits as well as people hang around after the Games.
4. Some will go home and tell family and friends about their experience in the Middle Kingdom and encourage them to make the trip as well. Others will tell folks how unpleasant the experience was and they will NOT go. It doesn't make any difference as long as more go than would have. The service industry will reap the benefits for a long time to come. 5. Beijing is building nearly 20 stadiums and gymnasiumas for various Olympic events. They will serve: a. as centers for the public for cultural entertainment activities b. as training bases for athletes c. venues for sporting events d. places of employment The Games will not only serve the Chinese economy leading up to 8-8-08, but will have an impact, a positive one, on the country's capital for some time after as well. What do you think? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel receive 15 wedding gifts, totalling $54,000 plus Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:34 PM PDT
Just eight years after one friend spent $6,770 on a rehearsal dinner when Gavin Newsom married Kimberly Guilfoyle, that same friend Maryon Davies Lewis spent $16,000 on another party. Other celebrities offered up gifts as well to the mayor and his new bride, Jennifer Seibel…to the tune of at leas $54,000. Some of the gifts and givers. Lucasfilm: $180 picnic bag Sen. Dianne Feinstein: $415 in glassware Actress Molly Sims: $100 frame Actor Michael Keaton: $319 frame Gap founder Don Fisher: $325 frame “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller: $560 candlesticks George and Charlotte Shultz: $1,000 candlesticks and frame Charles Schwab: A party that cost $23,141 Other no name (non-reported) gifts included $1,350 in vases two coffee pots that cost more than $1,000 each (and a third one that cost $875) and a set of china that cost $7,720 The Bible says something about gift giving. Though the context says, ‘giving to the poor or needy’ and the Newsoms do not fall into that category, the meaning and application apply. When you give gifts, do not call attention to yourself. These verses also give pause to those who are doing their best to list up charitable donations at tax season, too. No? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Online Travel Companies in China Don’t Have Level Playing Field Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:33 PM PDT
Eye For Travel reports that overseas Internet travel companies wanting to do business in Chinaa do not have a level playing field in China. Like elsewhere, a segment of the travel market in China uses the Internet to research travel plans. Even less actually book online with the majority choosing rather to rely on travel agents for booking and payment. No mystery there, it is still a bit intimidating to me to make all my travel arrangements online. I’d much rather talk to a person. Consumers in China want a travel agent to do the research, provide all the details on the itinerary – hotel facilities, rent-a-car and such, and they want it NOW, because they know the travel agent has online access. Consumers everywhere want that, but…my dad used to say, "people in hell want ice water, too." Consolidator bookings in China are still less than 3% according to William Bao Bean, VP of China technology, Deutshce Bank. Ctrip holds the lion share of consolidator booking at 74%, followed by eLong’s 12 percent. For a new company to come in to China and make headway into the travel industry, the new company will have to partner up with a Chinese firm first. Then, and only then, can it start chipping away at the other 97%. What do you think? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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