[photopress:MBA_credit_card.JPG,full,alignright]Difficult to believe that university students would ever act this way but it seems to be the case. The Shanghai branch of the China Banking Regulatory Commission has warned city banks to check carefully before issuing credit cards to university students. Some banks have been failing to check the credit worthiness of students and their […]
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[photopress:air_san_jose.jpg,full,alignright]Do you know the way to San Jose? Well, yes. Go to San Francisco airport and instead of turning right out of the airport turn left. It is further that to San Francisco city, but not that much further. And it truly does not much have going for it as a town except a neat […]
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IE ranked in top ten
[photopress:IE_Business_School.gif,full,alignright]The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked the MBA programs of Instituto de Empresa (IE) ninth globally and fourth in Europe. The ranking is decided through a survey of 20,000 MBA students and graduates around the world, asking about the impact an MBA has on their career opportunities, salary increases and personal development. Bill Ridgers, editor of Which […]
[photopress:hotels_Banyan_Tree.jpg,full,alignright]The resort, hotel and spa operator Banyan Tree has signed on a new property in Shanghai. Banyan announced that it had secured the management of a new exclusive waterfront boutique hotel on one of the last available waterfront sites along the Shanghai Bund. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2010. Banyan Tree has recently […]
[photopress:itpanda_virus.jpg,full,alignright]Li Jun, 25, and three others, all of them in their twenties, were accused of writing the virus ‘Xiongmao Shaoxiang’, or ‘Panda burning joss stick’. It spread through the Internet and causing huge damage to millions of computer users from November 2006 to March of this year. Li was sentenced for four years in jail. […]