CASE-H8247.qxd 11/10/06 21:25 Page 76 Case 6 Nissan United Kingdom‚ Ltd. John E. Walsh‚ Jr. Entering into a Business Relationship in the United Kingdom In 1970‚ three thousand Datsun cars rusting on the docks of Rotterdam‚ abandoned by the existing U.K. concessionaire‚ was the catalyst for the relationship that developed between Nissan United Kingdom Limited (Nissan U.K.) and Nissan Motor Company of Japan (Nissan M.C.). Nissan Motor Company approached Octav Botnar‚ who arranged the transshipment
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Usability Evaluation of Hong Kong Hotel Websites PhD Research Proposal Tom Au Yeung School of Hotel & Tourism Management‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong 1. Problem Definition The Internet‚ especially the World Wide Web (WWW or Web)‚ has had a great impact on the hospitality and tourism industry in recent years. Many hotel organizations have been working hard to develop their own websites. These websites play an important role for mediating between hotels and
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The special historic and social-economic background of Hong Kong forms its own identity‚ which is different from other regions like mainland China‚ and makes it a specific imagined community‚ which is accord with Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined community. Whereas‚ it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997‚ Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and‚ thus‚ will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future
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Question 1 What were the origins of the Asian currency crisis? In mid 1997‚ a financial crisis gripped most of the Asian countries and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to a financial contagion‚ a scenario that initially affects only a particular region of the economy that spreads to other countries whose economies were healthy‚ much like a transmitted disease. See‚ Asia attracted almost half the total capital inflow into developing countries because of the high interest rates
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Teenage Smoking in United Kingdom Background: Young people’s tobacco use continues to be a widely recognised public health challenge in UK. In November 2010‚ the government introduced the White Paper Healthy lives‚ Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England which set the government’s long-term ambitions for improving public health in England. The White Paper recognised the harmful effects smoking has on public health and made a commitment to publish a tobacco control strategy with
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conditions and/or the value of the home currency on the foreign exchange market. Intervention usually aims to promote stability by countering disorderly markets‚ or in response to special circumstances. In Japan‚ the Minister of Finance is legally authorized to conduct intervention as a means to achieve foreign exchange rate stability. In the United States‚ the Government and Federal Reserve Board (FRB); in Euro Area‚ the European Central Bank (ECB); in the United Kingdom‚ the Bank of England (BOE) operates
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social and technological environment in Hong Kong. The research and analysis is then used to evaluate the market for potential in pet grooming service. “Hong Kong is such a cramped place that it is surprising to learn that we have hundreds of thousands of dogs sharing our city with us”‚ according to South China Morning Post (2006‚ p.14). Nonetheless‚ due to the desire for more sophisticated pet products including pet grooming services‚ the pet industry in Hong Kong has been flourishing despite the already
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CCCH 9033 Sustainable Urban Development and Hong Kong Individual Essay Topic 2: Sustainability and Cross-boundary Mega Infrastructure Planning in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Zhuhai-Macau-Hong Kong Bridge. Accompanied with the higher level of globalization and increasingly saturated domestic market‚ modern cities and countries start gauging carefully the possible options to promote economic interaction with neighbor regions. This scenario‚ as a result‚ gives birth to many cross-boundary mega
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How Would the Commercial Banks respond to Ocean’s park strategic plan? Was the park’s positioning strategy strong enough to win their confidence in the face of competition from Disneyland? SWOT Analysis Strengths: Ocean Park has a number of strengths that enables it to capture opportunities fuelled by the needs of customers. Ocean Park’s strength is its strong brand. Ocean Park developed a reputation for providing educational and entertaining activities tied to environmental conservation. Its
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HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE PRACTICE OF MUSIC THERAPY IN HONG KONG By LAM HOI YAN April‚ 2007 04002865 ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the development of music therapy in Hong Kong. Specifically‚ a number of related issues were studied including definition of music therapy‚ the origin of music therapy‚ the recent developments in music therapy in China‚ establishment of a music therapy session‚ and the setting of
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