HKU833 STEPHEN KO AIRASIA: FLYING LOW-COST WITH HIGH HOPES AirAsia started out as a Malaysian government-controlled‚ full-service regional airline that offered slightly lower fares than its number-one competitor‚ Malaysia Airlines (“MAS”). In December 2001‚ private entrepreneur Tony Fernandes took over the debt-ridden airline for the symbolic sum of US$0.26. Despite the air-travel downturn following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks‚ Fernandes believed that the timing for entering
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Vietnam Tourism Report Q1 2011 Business Environment Outlook Table: Asia Travel And Tourism Business Environment Ratings Limits of Potential Returns Tourism Market Hong Kong India Malaysia Singapore Japan China Thailand Australia New Zealand Indonesia Vietnam Sri Lanka Cambodia 86 82 82 64 66 64 64 44 36 42 46 17 64 Country Structure 77 64 52 68 71 75 59 64 60 62 52 46 60 Limits 82.8 75.6 71.6 65.3 67.6 67.9 62.3 51.0 44.5 49.2 48.0 26.8 62.6 Risks to Realisation of Returns Market Risks
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Praise for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down “Fadiman describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture.” —The New Yorker “This fine book recounts a poignant tragedy…It has no heroes or villains‚ but it has an abundance of innocent suffering‚ and it most certainly does have a moral…[A] sad‚ excellent book.” —Melvin Konner‚ The New York Times Book Review “An intriguing‚ spirit-lifting‚ extraordinary exploration of two cultures in uneasy
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PAPER NO. 5 / 2012 Mekong Institute Research Working Paper Series 2012 Factors Affecting Export and Import Trade between Lao PDR and Principle Trade Partners Thanouxay VOLAVONG December‚ 2012 Thanouxay VOLAVONG is a Master’s Degree student of Development and Planning Economics at the National University of Laos (Lao PDR). Currently he works as a teacher at the Department of Economics‚ Faculty of Economics and Business Management‚ University of Laos. He has started working since
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CHAPTER 1 ECONOMIC INTEGRATION INTRODUCTION Economic integration is a process where barriers to trade are reduced or eliminated to facilitate trade between regions or nations. There are varying degrees of economic integration ranging from theoretically completely free trade to the use of preferential trade agreements to stimulate relationships between specific trade partners. Removing trade barriers comes with costs and benefits‚ depending on the degree of economic integration and the level of
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Introduction to the Paperback Edition Why go through all the trouble of writing a second expanded and updated version of The World Is Flat only a year after the first expanded version was published and a mere two years after the original? I can offer a very brief answer: because I could and because I had to. Precisely because of the powerful technological forces detailed in this book‚ the publishing industry
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Introduction Following the official surrender of Japan on September 2‚ 1945‚ the Allied powers began occupying the war torn nations of Asia and the Pacific Rim. Among these countries were those in Indochina. In Vietnam as Japanese occupiers stepped aside‚ southern portions of the state were occupied first by the British and within a few months‚ by troops of the new French Fourth Republic (1946-1959). It seemed natural since Free French forces had supported the British and Americans in World
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QUALITY OF BOTTLED WATER PRODUCED BY WATER REFILLING STATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS APPROVAL SHEET i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii LIST OF TABLES v ABSTRACT vi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study 1 Related Studies 3 Statement of the Problem 6 Objectives 6 Conceptual Framework 7 Significance of the Study 9 Scope and Delimitation 9 Definition of Terms 9 CHAPTERII METHODOLOGY
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overview career & travel TRAVEL LEARN PLAY REPORT LIVE RESEARCH 2009 WORK GROW traveller profile travel treNDS aBoUt coNtiKi appeNDiX ACHIEVE overview Did you get the latest memo? Gone are the days of choosing between collecting career kudos or tallying up travel tales – today’s young Aussies want (and are getting) it all‚ as they balance their passports with PDAs while flying up the corporate ladder. As the world’s leading travel company for 18 to 35s‚ Contiki
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Business affected because of this issue: BEIJING‚ Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Japan’s unilateral move of the so-called "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands‚ which are Chinese territories‚ two weeks ago has taken its toll on bilateral economic and trade ties‚ experts said on Tuesday. Chinese people intending on traveling to Japan have been bogged down. Heavyweight travel agencies‚ including China International Travel Service Limited‚ China Comfort Travel and China CYTS Tours Holding Co.‚ Ltd.‚ have halted
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