1. Introduction Globalization is “the integration of economies around the world through the movement of goods‚ services and capital across borders” and is a dynamic process through which companies‚ corporations and organizations leverage their strengths‚ magnify their reach‚ and decrease costs by outsourcing multiple business processes (IMF Staff‚ 2008). The globalization of Starbucks’ supply chain played a crucial role in attaining organizational success‚ having a significant impact on its business
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objective of this research project is to identify the financial institutions that are involved in financing the companies undertaking two major oil and gas projects in Burma. These projects are known as Block M and the Shwe Reserve (including the Arakan-Yunnan Pipeline). The consortium companies undertaking the Block M project have a production sharing contract with Burma’s 100% state-owned Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise (Burma). The consortium includes Chinese and Singaporean companies: CNOOC (China)
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China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of agricultural products – and some 300 million Chinese farm workers are in the industry‚ mostly laboring on pieces of land about the size of U.S farms. Virtually all arable land is used for foodcrops. China is the world’s largest producer of rice and is among the principal sources of wheat‚ corn (maize)‚ tobacco‚ soybeans‚ potatoes‚ sorghum‚ peanuts‚ tea‚ millet‚ barley‚ oilseed‚ pork‚ and fish. Major non-food crops‚ including cotton‚ other fibers
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History of Chinese Tea: Chinese Tea has a very long and complex history that dates back a few millennia. According to Chinese legends‚ a Chinese inventor and emperor was the first person to discover tea in 2737BC. It is said that the emperor liked his drinking water boiled before he drank it so it would be clean‚ so that is what his servants did. One day‚ on a trip to a distant region‚ he and his army stopped to rest. A servant began boiling water for him to drink‚ and a dead leaf from the wild
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agricultural run-off‚ siltation‚ and loss of wetland and lakes‚ which exacerbates seasonal flooding. Some sections of the river are now protected as nature reserves. A stretch of the Yangtze flowing through deep gorges in western Yunnan is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas‚ a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The Yangtze River is important to the cultural origins of southern China. Human activity was found in the Three Gorges area as far back as 27 thousand years ago‚ initiating
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Zheng He led seven voyages with the idea to explore and not conquer. However‚ Zheng He was not always known as China’s greatest seafaring explorer he became it. It began in China’s Yunnan province‚ for ten years he had grown and lived there until 1382 when three hundred thousand Ming troops arrived to invade Yunnan to take it back from the Mongols and bring it under Ming control. Killing thousands of people including children‚ including his
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What is it? School violence is someone harms or threatens to harm a person’s body‚ feelings‚ or possessions while in school. As defined in the Oxford Dictionary‚ School Violence is a subset of students or teachers violence‚ physical force exerted for the purpose of violating‚ damaging‚ or abusing‚ the act or an instance of violent action or behavior at school‚ abuse or injury to meaning‚ content‚ or intent‚ vehemence of feeling or expression. It is said that school violence needs to be a concern
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Mt. Namcha Barwa Mt. Namcha Barwa is identified to be located in the southeast of Tibet Autonomous Region with its elevation of 7‚788 meters above sea level. It’s one of the world’s unconquered mountains to its height above 7‚500 meters and at the same time‚ it’s also the highest peak in the eastern part of the Himalayas. Locally‚ people regard this Mt. Namcha Barwa as a “shy girl” as the apex of the mountain is sometimes seen to peek out from the mist. Furthermore‚ its peak is always capped with
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China Shortage of Fresh Water‚ People often thinks that water will never be used up. There is plenty of water‚ such as rain‚ water from the rivers and wells. It seems as if water is always available around us and we never have to worry about water shortage. In fact water is rather limited on the earth. With the rapid increase of population and fast development of industries‚ water is more needed than before. At the same time‚ a large amount of water has been polluted and wasted every day. Some big
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interior of the country to the main cities of its coasts. Three main transmission routes were set up‚ sending electricity from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi province to Beijing and Tianjin‚ from Sichuan to the central regions around Shanghai‚ and from Yunnan‚ Guizhou and Guangxi provinces to China’s factory heartlands around Guangzhou. 2 The South to North Water Transfer Project Setting itself another huge engineering challenge‚ China has budgeted some 500 billion to shift volumes of water from the
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