Senior figures from Russia's 10 "closed nuclear cities", plus nuclear institutions in the republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, are taking part in the Business English and Contract Negotiations course.
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Pupils will specialise in engineering and science alongside other subjects such as English, maths, languages and business.
Of course, Hollywood blockbusters, wildlife documentaries and English-language business news will always find an audience in Asia.
Holiday said he told the local school district he would stay if he could use its facilities and its teachers to start a business providing English instruction to students in Asia where, according to Holiday, there aren't enough skilled language instructors, particularly in non-urban areas, to teach.
Another realization was that education is considered the panacea for problems and English language was the language of business (especially in India) and people were willing to pay to learn these skills.
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Other moves, such as allowing English councils to retain business rate revenues and borrow money against future income generated from capital investment projects, represented "quite a dramatic loosening of the leash" of central government, he insisted.
Of Paramont's 800 employees, 100 are Brazilian, and day-to-day business is conducted in English.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
Just as their poorest countrymen have continued to leave family and familiarity behind to labor in spots like the Arab Gulf, so, too, may a new cohort of the best and brightest look to international business centers, especially where their English-language facility gives them an edge.
We are hiring new business development people and leveraging the connections of our existing workforce to move into English: The image explains in an overall view...new market areas.
English is the global language of business, yet English is also the native tongue of relatively few people, and it is notoriously hard to learn.
The categories range from "Pain Free", which tries to find who is making shopping online as straightforward as possible, to Best Family e-Business, which targets smaller online retailers such as hotel chain Elegant English Hotels and pharmacist Allcures.com.
Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
The college, which teaches subjects such as agriculture, business, equine management and food production, is the oldest of its kind in the English-speaking world, dating back to 1845.
By and large, a tradition of English common law leaves a freer hand for business although India is a glaring exception.
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India, with its flowering of English-fluent and scientifically literate minds, just might rise above the business of making generic drugs and ripping off patents.
Therefore, consumers will have to motivate businesses to adopt good business practices by gravitating toward companies and websites that explain their information-gathering practices in clear English and abandoning those that don't.
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"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.
Is it freedom of religion, democracy, a judiciary and parliamentary system that is envied worldwide, a cherished monarchy, a reputation of fair play on and off the field, be it business, sports, diplomacy or combat, the English language, etc?
They teach in English too, and are particularly strong in the most popular subjects such as business and computing.
For monolingual employers and supervisors, the adoption of an English-only policy may seem perfectly reasonable, and may even be a business necessity.
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Other problems for Hong Kong include a lack of highly skilled English-speaking labour, and government policies which the EIU said appear to favour some business tycoons and their companies instead of real competition.
"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
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