Macau

Moreover, the marine traffic being busier than before. Many high-speed ferries travelling between Hong Kong, Macau and other cities in the Pearl River area every day. It makes the upward trend in western sea double from 1999 to 2009. The high-speed ferry routes may affect the normal habitats of dolphins around Lantau waters. The risk of dolphins getting hurt and…

How long has the organization been in existence? Please briefly describe the history of the organization. Founder and CEO, Sheldon G. Adelson and his partners founded the computer trade show, ‘COMDEX’ in 1979. Ten years later, he had made enough money to buy the famous Sands Hotel and opened up a Sands Expo and Convention Center across from it. They then sold COMDEX in 1995 for over 800 million dollars in order to focus on developing the Sands properties and name. After a trip to Italy and some…

On December 26, 1893, the architect of China’s Communist revolution and the founding member of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), Chairman Mao Zedong(毛泽东) was born. Although many of his socialist reforms resulted in failure and caused much devastation for the people of China, his legacy as a nationalist leader and the creator of an independent China still inspires post-Mao generations. Born from a peasant family, Chairman Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him…

Sport in Western culture, how can throwing a football around a field define cultural values, well remarkably by either acknowledging its significance or by holding it in distain you have entered a segmented culture dedicated to sharing in and expressing those opinions. One such example of this polarization is the flourishing of sports fans personal blogs, which produces opportunities to built and participate in the media they are using. (McCarthy, 2013:422). This active participation in media,…

Matteo Ricci created a link between the Western world and China by attempting to introduce Christianity to the Chinese people. Matteo Ricci is a pioneer because he took Western lifestyle to China. Chinese scholars were very intrigued by the knowledge introduced to them from Renaissance Europe and so they explored this new information. By showing the extravagance of western civilization and religion Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits became cultural mediators, and they created a foothold for Western…

1984, many of the communist countries chose to boycott the olympic games in retaliation of the American boycott of the games held in the soviet union, and because as they stated, America was an unsafe environment for their athletes, being that America is an anti-communist country. Jump twenty four years later, the 2008 olympic games in Beijing China. All but a few countries prepared tirelessly to take part in what was projected to be one of the best games ever. While L.A. used existing stadiums…

Price is an important factor in marketing and is often shaped by factors such as the product type, market conditions and the demand and supply of goods or services available. As such, businesses often employ “price strategy in marketing” for it not only enables a company to ascertain an “optimum price for a product” but also plays an important role in determining whether a company gains profits or faces losses. There are variety of pricing strategies and each influence customer decisions…

Eat Bulaga can be tagged as the nation’s official noontime show to date, with 35 years and still running under its belt. It is a lunchtime tradition to the Filipino’s who just can’t get enough of our Dabarkads ( Tito, Vic, Joey and the rest of the gang). The Show first graced our television screens on July 30, 1979, since then it had survived many challenges as time goes by. The show entertained many viewers here and abroad, until it was franchised also by our neighboring country, Indonesia. The…

Imagine oneself in a world completely different from ones where the language, culture, people, and landscape is different. James Clavell made this possible with a stroke of a pen. Creating multiple works depicting conflicts and resolutions between eastern and western civilizations in a series known as the asian saga. In his masterworks, James Clavell showed the conflicts and resolutions in western and eastern civilizations to the betterment of the world as seen through the novels Shogun,…

Within 2007, Cintas was well positioned to provide services for most businesses in North America. Cintas they had approximately 400 locations, 34,000 employees, and approximately 800,000 customers. In 2008, Cintas opened markets to Europe, Hong Kong, Macau, and the Netherlands. Today, Cintas operates more than 430 facilities, including six manufacturing plants and nine distribution centers across North…