Don't make the mistake of calling a company global when it's really just international -- or even worse, saying a company is multinational when it's really transnational! For convenience, it's common to use the umbrella term international business to describe business activities that extend past the borders of a company's...
This paper surveys the effects of outward foreign direct investment on the developed home countries of multinational corporations. The focus is on the production interactions arising from outward investment - what is the impact on home country exports and production structure - but the paper also discusses effects on investment,...
CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To achieve this purpose,...
Thank you for your recent coverage of the FairTax. The FairTax reformation would significantly reduce the hundreds of billions spent annually on tax compliance, would promote productivity no income or payroll taxes, would discourage excessive spending tax on services and new products, would untax the poor (no payroll taxes/refund of...
One of the latest real estate trends isfractional ownership, an increasingly popular way for people to have thebest vacation or second home properties at a fraction of the cost. In theNorthern California wine country, there is a new kind of fractionalproperty for those who have always wanted to be...
Sport IN BRIEF *Thailand have sent their Olympic fighters into exile in rural Vietnam to prevent them from going off the rails in the run-up to next month's Olympic Games. The head of the country's boxing federation, Taweep Jantararoj, is concerned that his fighters would be lured...
LONDON AFP — World stock markets reeled again on Wednesday on uncertainty over the unfolding US financial crisis and the prospect of more gloomy comment from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke. Bernanke has warned of economic gloom and his next comments are anxiously awaited by investors, after...
Sport IN BRIEF *Thailand have sent their Olympic fighters into exile in rural Vietnam to prevent them from going off the rails in the run-up to next month's Olympic Games. The head of the country's boxing federation, Taweep Jantararoj, is concerned that his fighters would be lured...
Days like these John Evelyn, a gardener and author, writes in his diary soon after the English Civil War: "We went to my uncle, Sir John Glanvill, a famous lawyer, his seat is at Broad-Hinton. But the Gatehouse, his very fair dwelling house, having been burnt by...
SAN DIEGO, California AFP — Barack Obama is steadily winning over Hispanic voters, defying theories that the potentially crucial minority would be unlikely to support a black presidential candidate at this year's election, Latino leaders say. Both Democratic hopeful Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain have targeted...
On the surface, Lindsey Dunkley is your basic prototypical homemaker. She's 29, married to Tim, mom to Hunter, 8, Ryker, 4, and Tyler, who just turned 1. Her days are spent taking the kids to their lessons, to the park for picnics, cleaning the house, fixing dinner, the usual busy-ness...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, the conservative Utah Republican, has written hundreds of songs on patriotic themes -- with such titles as "Freedom's Light" and "I Love Old Glory" -- as a way of paying tribute to his country. But his latest trip down Tin Pan Alley...
Thirty-seven years after Royal Birkdale made him world famous, Taiwan's "Mr Lu" has said he still hopes to return one day for a reunion with the woman he hit on the head that week. Lu Liang-Huan right, now aged 73, treated Lillian Tipping and her husband to an all expenses...
Beset by rising sea levels and a Pounds 90m budget shortfall, the Maldives government has set its sights on leasing 31 uninhabited islands for new resorts. Now the Tourism Minister has quit over the threat to the islands' fragile ecology. By Andrew Buncombe Trouble in paradise...
He will represent Britain at the next Venice Biennale, but first Steve McQueen wants justice for the troops who have died overseas. Hannah Duguid meets an angry man At the London gallery of the British artist Steve McQueen, everyone is buzzing. "He's going to Downing Street tonight,"...
Genre Diversity and Hit Songs Highlight the First Summer List of Top Ten Plays in Bars and Nightclubs NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecast zeros in on the start of the summer hit parade, reflecting the choices of consumers when they are not at home. ...
MIAMI -- The Federal Reserve signed off Monday on a long- anticipated plan to end the abusive lending practices that victimized many borrowers in the now-collapsed subprime market. The rules, however, will only cover new loans, not existing ones, so they will have little effect on the...
NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase Bank has earned an overall outstanding rating for its community reinvestment across the United States from its primary regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. "This Outstanding rating reflects the dedication and leadership of thousands of our colleagues who are helping...
Thirty-seven years after Royal Birkdale made him world famous, Taiwan's "Mr Lu" has said he still hopes to return one day for a reunion with the woman he hit on the head that week. Lu Liang-Huan right, now aged 73, treated Lillian Tipping and her husband to an all expenses...
MINSK AFP — Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday named the KGB security service chief as head of the former Soviet republic's security council, less than two weeks after a bomb explosion injured dozens. Yuri Zhadobin, 54, headed the former Soviet state's police troops before taking the helm...
