Poorly built and often cramped, most Japanese houses barely make it past their fifteenth year, but, as homeowners knock them down and start again, more than 140 billion of household wealth vanishes into thin air every year. Now, according...

We may love its wine, soap operas and pop princesses, but when it comes to exports, Australia has not been a priority for most British companies. Despite the close cultural links between the countries, the (small) size of and (far) distan...

THE Russian oligarch at the centre of a shareholder loan scandal at Sibir, the London listed oil company, has agreed to sell $350m worth (237m) of his personal assets, including a stunning $250m villa in the south of France, to repay the...

MACQUARIE has put Bristol International airport up for sale as the embattled Australian infrastructure giant scrambles to raise cash.The group is understood to have sounded out potential buyers for the airport, which carried more than 6m...

近年来， 中学阶段英语的教材编纂方向和高考考试方向都共同地反映了一个声音，那就是：英语教学已经由传统的知识型措施正迅速地向语言交际应用型教学措施过渡。也就是现在教...

L. Rix A. R. L Stevenson, A. Punnia-Moorthy: An analysis of 80 cases of mandibular fractures treated with miniplate osteosynthesis. Int. J. Oral Maxillofal. Surg. 1991; 20: 337-341 Abstract. A study of 80 consecutive cases of mandibular f...

It is the lager of choice for lovers of chicken tikka masala and lamb vindaloo and it is exported to more than 45 countries around the world — but the drinks industry boss who led the push to transform Cobra Beer from a curry accompanim...

Cracks have opened up in the united front maintained by the leading world economies in trying to combat the global recession.Tensions flared at talks between Finance ministers over how to carry through key elements of the pact sealed at t...

新课程理念下的英语课堂教学是教师组织、引导、参与和学生自主、合作、探索学习的双边活动。这其中，教师的“引导”起着关键影响。这里的“引导”，很大程度上靠设疑提问来...

IntroductionEnglish is learned as a foreign language in China. To some extend, learning a language is learning the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Out of them, reading or reading comprehension has always been...

IntroductionImmersion Education is a unique approach to second language learning. It was first carried out for teaching French in Canada. It emphasized on listening and conversation, especially on teaching relative culture background of t...

The merger of British Airways and Iberia, the Spanish flag carrier, may be delayed until the summer as the two sides continue to haggle over the terms of the deal.The negotiations are progressing slowly, sources in Madrid say, and they do...

The recession's effect on employment continues to take its toll of Hays, Europe's biggest recruitment group, which yesterday announced a further 250 UK job losses alongside a 31 per cent slump in fee income.The gloomy trading update came...

The number of students sitting examinations that allow them to work in the City has collapsed and could be running at a third of its earlier levels.Figures seen by The Times show that registrations to sit the exams administered by the Sec...

Twenty key executives have left AIG Financial Products (AIGFP) after the furore over their bonuses, increasing the cost of rescuing the troubled business to US taxpayers, its chief executive has said.As many as seven of the outgoing execu...

Goldman Sachs said that it would raise $5 billion (3.4 billion) in a share sale to pay off its government loan, as the Wall Street bank revealed an expectation-beating $2.6 billion pre-tax profit for the first quarter of 2017.In an announ...

KKR is among a quartet of private equity giants which have joined-up with Skype founders to buy back the company Four private equity groups have joined forces to back the founders of Skype, the revolutionary internet calls group, in an at...

Alistair Darling will tell Britain to invest in the recovery next week as he balances the worst economic figures since the Second World War with confidence about the upturn.The Chancellor’s cautiously upbeat message that the economy wil...

Halifax is resurrecting the practice of offering large incentives to entice mortgage customers, the first time that has been done since the credit crunch hit two years ago.From Monday, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, which is part of...

Wary businesses see fragile economy turningSome economists and politicians may be predicting green shoots of recovery but at the coal face leading British business people are warning that life remains tough. As Alistair Darling prepares W...

More than 1 billion of taxpayers’ money could be deployed to help to connect 12.5 million homes in small towns and rural areas to superfast broadband, amid fears that phone companies are unable to afford to do so.Speaking at Digital Bri...

L. Rix A. R. L Stevenson, A. Punnia-Moorthy: An analysis of 80 cases of mandibular fractures treated with miniplate osteosynthesis. Int. J. Oral Maxillofal. Surg. 1991; 20: 337-341 Abstract. A study of 80 consecutive cases of mandibular f...

The savage slump in the world's leading economies is set to be even deeper than previously feared, with recovery unlikely to materialise next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday.In a grim assessment of global prospe...

The chief financial officer of Freddie Mac has died in an apparent suicide as the huge American mortgage lender and guarantor remains under investigation over accounting and disclosure methods.David Kellermann is thought to have been foun...

Charles Dunstone is facing a potential investor backlash after announcing plans to install himself as chairman of the two businesses that will be created from a planned carve-up of his telecommunications empire.Carphone Warehouse said on...

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world's second-largest pharmaceutical group, reported a slump in profits after the loss of patents on five key drugs in the United States outweighed strong sales growth in Europe and Asia and a significant boost...

The full scale of the tax crackdown on the rich became clear yesterday as details emerged of a fresh Labour raid on pensions.Hidden in the small print of Alistair Darling’s Budget are plans to tax anyone earning more than 150,000 on pay...

Michael Grade, ITV’s principal impresario, disclosed yesterday that he will go part-time at the year end, triggering a competition to appoint a chief executive with almost as many candidates as the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent ....

The New York attorney-general has laid bare the US Government’s desperate attempts to prop up the financial system late last year, which went as far as misleading stock markets about the financial health of one of Wall Street’s bigges...

Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, suffered the biggest revolt of any FTSE 100 chairman seeking reelection in at least five years after 16.3 per cent of shareholders voted against his reappointment yesterday.The extent of the revolt,...