The channel, whose first program will be a news bulletin, will compete directly against Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN International and BBC World, the two main global English-language satellite news channels.
It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
Today marks one year since the debut of Al-Jazeera International, the English language version of the Arabic news service.
Al-Jazeera International and Russia Today are among the English-language global news channels also set to launch in 2006.
Of these, the biggest is al-Jazeera's long-delayed English-language channel, Al Jazeera International, which should be getting into its stride by the beginning of 2007.
ECONOMIST: The coming glut of international all-news TV channels
If there is one German sector which begs to differ, it may be the entertainment industry, whose exports are limited by the international preference for English-language products.
The Subcontinent also holds a special cachet for publishers, both as a market and as a source of English-language writers, especially following the international success of authors like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy.
The February spike in U.S. auto sales was the topic that Thomas Rippe and Xu Qinduo at Beyond Beijing, the English-language arm of China Radio International, wanted to discuss with Tim Dunne , Director of Global Automotive Operations at J.
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.
The English language edition also carries the Newsletter of the International Social Science Council as a lift-out supplement.
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