Why Do Applications Request My Contacts Data？ A Large-Scale Study on Openness and Control of User Contacts Permission in Android Mobile Applicaitons Marketplace

To understand the value of data transfer, this paper uses consumers＇ contact information in mobile application that resides in their mobile devices as a proxy to evaluate the value of user data to application developer and platform owner. Based on a data set of 567,730 Android mobile applications, our research results show that using user contacts can increase application popularity, enable developer to become more influential, and have a positive effect on developers＇ productivity when developing future applications. In addition to examining the use and access of a consumers extending contact information on their device, we broaden our research to examine the context and appropriateness of using this information in the context of privacy, and to a less extent education. We conclude our research with a summary of guidance to developers, consumerss, and platform owners in order to maintain a healthy application ecosystem.     

Asian Economic Cooperation Reaches Higher Lever

The Asian economy is the first to recover from the international financial crisis.In addition,cooperation among Asian countries has seen robust progress in the last ten years.Asian influence in the world has been rising steadily.Asian countries need to translate the diversity of our region into a driving force for more dynamic exchange and cooperation,we need to increase mutual understanding and trust,and take our cooperation to higher levels,Chinese President Hu Jintao said at the opening ceremony of th...     

Lin Zhongjie On Commercial Insurance Companies

China's insurance industry has gradually picked up the pace to open the domestic insurance market along with the deepening reform of its insurance system. In addition to a few domestic insurance companies, some foreign insurance companies given approval to handle insurance business in China have also joined the market. In the face of the serious situation, how and what should China's insurance industry do? To this     

Market presence in China strengthened Network growth and Dual-Chinese-Hub Strategy More frequet Flyer Benefit——Air China and shanhai Airlines Join Star Alliance

In the end of 2007, Air China Limited (hereinafter "Air China") and Shanghai Airlines, formally joined Star Alliance at a ceremony held in the new Terminal Three at Beijing Capital International Airport. With the addition of the two Chinese airlines, Star Alliance now has 19 member carriers operating 17,000 daily flights to 897 destinations in 160 countries.……     

Harmonious Stock Prices

Stock price movements in China still remain highly harmonious, in spite of the many significant regulatory and structural changes over the recent years. A survey of the literature reveals that harmony in the stock price movements is related to a few salient features in China＇s capital market： high ownership concentration, high incidence of the use of pyramidal ownership structure, significant state ownership, and a lack of active institutional investors. In addition, we also point out that harmonious stock prices may generally result from low intensity of private information acquisitions by risk arbitrageurs.     

Market presence in China strengthened Network growth and Dual-Chinese-Hub Strategy More frequet Flyer Benefit——Air China and shanhai Airlines Join Star Alliance

In the end of 2007, Air China Limited (hereinafter "Air China") and Shanghai Airlines, formally joined Star Alliance at a ceremony held in the new Terminal Three at Beijing Capital International Airport. With the addition of the two Chinese airlines, Star Alliance now has 19 member carriers operating 17,000 daily flights to 897 destinations in 160 countries.     

Chinese Passenger Assistants Serve on SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines has made its Beijing service even more convenient for Chinese passengers, and now has a Chinese Language Assistant on board each flight in addition to the airline＇s award-winning cabin crew.     

Dragonair's Media Camp

Dragonair hosted its first media camp in Ju Yong Guan Great Wall on April 2-3 for a group of more than 20 journalists from Beijing. In addition to exciting games, tours and a dinner party, Dragonair Northern China Regional Manager Ian Kwok also took this opportunity to give a detailed briefing on the latest developments     

Market presence in China Strengthened Network Growth and Dual-Chinese-Hub Strategy——More Frequent Flyer Benefit-Air China and Shanhai Airlines Join Star Alliance

In the end of 2007, Air China Limited （hereinafter ＂Air China＂） and Shanghai Airlines, formally joined Star Alli-ance at a ceremony held in the new Terminal Three at Beijing Capital International Airport. With the addition of the two Chinese airlines, Star Alliance now ha,s 19 member carriers operating 17,000 daily flights to 897 destinations in 160 countries.     

Dragonair＇s Media Camp

Dragonair hosted its first media camp in Ju Yong Guan Great Wall on April 2-3 for a group of more than 20 journalists from Beijing. In addition to exciting games, tours and a dinner party, Dragonair Nortnern China Regional Manager Ian Kwok also took this opportunityto give a detailed briefing on the latest developments and future plans of the airline.     

Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Law——On the Section 5 of the Company Law of China

The Principle of Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Law
In China, a lot of ill-formed business activities exist, the good market order hasn＇t realized and the commerce hasn＇t reached the perfoect operating status. In addition to those, the personal and corporate credit systems haven＇t been completely established yet, the merchants still place their profit in primary position without considering the public interest or with less consideration, and the social problems caused by many companies with bad faith are more outstanding, so it is necessary to supplement and strengthen corporate social responsi.bility in Chinese Law.     

Hotel Investment Embraces a Bright Future

More than a record 400 hoteliers from around the world gathered in Rome to discuss the global hotel outlook and seek transactions at the fifth annual International Hotel Conference held here recently. In addition,Hans W.R.Kennedie,president and CEO of the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group,received the inaugural International Hotelier Global Citizen award.Kennedie,a citizen of the Netherlands, received the award based on the impact of his more than 20 years     

Ligurian Businessmen Searching for Cooperation with Chinese Companies

Liguria will transport more goods to other countries as one of the major port. On September 4, a commercial delegation from Italian Liguria Area visited China to attend a fair to search for business cooperation. The fair was held in China World Hotel from 10:00 to 12:00 in the morning and 14:00 to 16:30 in the afternoon. Over 100 Chinese companies' representatives at-     

Zhang Hao,Health Is Wealth

Contribution to the society Zhang Hao owns great opportunity to store intelligence and knowledge,in her early year.Zhang Hao was graduated from Eco- nomic Management Department of People's University in 1983 and later finished her study in Advanced Training Program of CEO of Chi- nese Direct Selling Enterprises in Peking Uni- versity.In addition,with more than a decade's working experience in traditional industry, Zhang Hao began to work on sales of Guozhen serial products of New Era Health Industry since the year 1998.Combining the theory and practice together,Zhang Hao walked out her own journey towards success.     

Views towards China's New Arrangement of Holidays

Paid holidays are the basic welfare for workers, while the Golden Week is the national public holiday in China,neither of which could be easily omitted.In addition,traditional festivals couldn't be ignored any more.Discussions on this fantastic topic-"holiday"turn white hot recently.Ac- tually,holiday is a combina- tion of"holi(holy)"and"day", which means the holy right we should hold in hand to relax ourselves.That is the born right to every em- ployee.When the opinion poll on holiday reform was initiated in China,fierce dis- cussions poured out.     

A Great Deal from Continental Airlines - Beijing to New York with a RMB 616 Discount

To celebrate the first anniversary of the daily nonstop service between Beijing and New York, Continental Airlines is offering a spe- cial discount ticket for travel on June 16,2006. In addition to being the first U.S. airline to enter China since the Sino-U.S. Bilateral Aviation Agreement, Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) also became the first U.S. airline to launch a direct daily     

Dragonair to More than Double Size of Cargo fleet by End-2008 Purchase of Five Special Freighters to Open up New Destinations, Strengthen Hong Kong's Cargo Hub Position

Dragonair is a Hong Kong based airline, operating a fleet of ten A330-300s, six A321s and eight A320s, in addition to three Boeing 747-300 freighters. The airline's passenger network covers 30 destinations across the Asia-Pacific region, while its cargo network connects the markets of Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Taiwan and China Mainland.     

流通改变生活——访’2002国际流通现代化-北京论坛组委会主任梁伟

During the unique interview with our reporter, Mr. Liangwei, director of the Beijing Commercial Committee,put forward that the circulation industry in Beijing will have realized the modernization by the year of 2008, In order to achieve such an aim, the Beijing Administration will further introduce foreign-capital commerce enterprises objectively and actively. He also indicates that there will be a fastigium (peak time) for large-size retail enter prises to enter into Beijing market within next one or two years, which will lead to the Third Upsurge for foreign-run commerce enterprises coming into Beijing. The years, especially the recent 13 years since our opening-up to outside world, have witnessed the great changes happened to the extension and intension of the Beijing Circulation Industry. The total retail amount of Community consumable and the GDP in Beijing has increased fast. As a backbone industry, the Beijing Circulation Industry runs to the third place, accounting for 8-10% of the GDP. In addition, itprovides more than 1,400,000employment opportunity, with one of four in the service undertaking commerce services. Mr. Liang deems that the modernization of the circulation industry plays an important role in the economic development, the improvement of people living standards and the transformation of the capital style and features, which could be fully expressed by the theme of the imminent convention-Circulation Changes People Lives. He points out that such a modernization is exoteric rather than close, therefore the introduction of a brand or a famous circulation enterprise abroad will advance the level of the Circulation Industry as a whole instead of being harmful to the local enterprises. Henceforth, the Beijing Administration will actively offer the convenience and better service for the foreign-capital commerce enterprises entry into Beijing under the State' s laws and policies,     

Zhang Hao,Health Is Wealth

Zhang Hao owns great opportunity to store intelligence and knowledge,in her early year.Zhang Hao was graduated from Eco nomic Management Department of People＇s University in 1983 and later finished her study in Advanced Training Program of CEO of Chinese Direct Selling Enterprises in Peking University.In addition,with more than a decade＇s working experience in traditional industry, Zhang Hao began to work on sales of Guozhen serial products of New Era Health Industry since the year 1998.Combining the theory and practice together,Zhang Hao walked out her own journey towards success.