A new China West cross-culture leadership and business management book entitled ‘Guanxi in the Western Context: Intra-Firm Group Dynamics and Expatriate Adjustment’ is launching this November, written by Dr Barbara Wang, a full-time professor at Hult Ashridge Executive Education.
In Vietnam women are 50% less likely to treat ‘investment products’ as their number one financial priority than men; in Singapore women are 31% less likely; in Hong Kong women are 29% less likely and in Malaysia women are 25% less likely.
Since 2009 Excillum has shipped its MetalJet X-ray sources to the world’s most demanding test and research instrument manufacturers and laboratories. The key markets have included the US, Europe, China and Japan. Now, Excillum's first two MetalJet sources are being shipped to South Korea which is another milestone reached for the Stockholm-based X-ray innovators.
Finnair’s AY code will be added to Fiji Airways’ flights between Hong Kong (HKG), Singapore (SIN), Narita (NRT) and Nadi, offering an exotic new destination for Finnair customers in the South Pacific.
Global digital recruiter, Salt, has today acquired APAC-based specialist digital, tech, media and sales firm, Xpand in order to further increase its global talent services. This move will add to the firm’s existing 200+ headcount across eight countries.
YTL Hotels and Marriott International announced yesterday the signing of a Master Development Agreement to bring the AC Hotels by Marriott brand to Malaysia for the first time. The AC Hotels by Marriott brand will be exclusive to YTL Hotels for the whole of Malaysia. The signing of this agreement is one of many key milestones in the partnership between YTL Hotels and Marriott International as it continues to grow from strength to strength.
London, UK & Canberra, Australia - Dynama, an Allocate Software company and a global supplier of strategic workforce planning software solutions has opened a new, larger office in Canberra, Australia to accommodate the company's rapid growth.
Investec Asset Management has strengthened the firm's China equity investment team with the appointment of Amy Leung.
Phase8 brings a new level of quality and intelligence to the electrical engineering space. Earlier this year, the firm found success in APAC Insider's APAC Excellence 2019, where they were selected as Australia's Most Outstanding Electrical Engineering Services, 2019.
Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Chairman Peter Lam and Executive Director Margaret Fong, together with Edward Yau, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), met with members of the media today to introduce measures to support local businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to tackle challenges resulting from current economic uncertainties and the Sino-US trade conflict.
China has long been seen as a land of opportunity by UK businesses. We have enjoyed an increasingly strong trading relationship with the country for many years. However, as the IMF announces that it is downgrading its all-important growth forecasts for the Chinese economy, should UK businesses be worried? Will China continue to grow in importance as an export destination for UK goods or is the tide turning?
FedEx Express (FedEx), a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world's largest express transportation company, is enhancing its services into and out of the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, with the introduction of a new flight connecting the city to the FedEx Express Hub in Guangzhou, China.
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