Dear Students,

Beyond this page is a password-protected learning platform for my on-going courses with the Beijing and Shanghai groups. To access this area, please follow the following instructions:

  • use your UIC e-mail account address as your name
  • the password will be given by the instructor; DO NOT GIVE IT TO OTHERS OUTSIDE OF OUR CLASS. Thank you.

For UIC students Shanghai/Beijing/Taiwan only:

For UIC Government students only:

*International Business

For all students:

Information about Chicago: http://www.chicago.com.

Information about interesting Chicago businesses:

Money Museum: http://www.chicagofed.org/about_the_fed/visitors_center.cfm.

Motorola Museum: http://www.motorola.ru/about.php?id=799.

Shure Inc.: http://www.shure.com/index.htm.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

APEC. Website for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum: http://www.apecsec.org.sg/.

ASEAN. This is the webpage for the Association of South East Asian Nations: http://www.aseansec.org/.

The European Union. Managed by the European Commission, this is one of my favorite sites: http://europa.eu/index.htm.

International Monetary Fund. This is the website for the IMF: http://www.imf.org/.

Mercosur. Lots of useful background information about Mercosur, the South America Free Trade Area, may be gleaned from this website: www.mercosur-info.com/.

NAFTA. Background information about the North American Free Trade Agreement may be accessed from this site: http://nafta.purebusiness.com/.

OECD. This is the link for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the economic forum for developed nations: http://www.oecd.org.

World Bank. This is the website for the World Bank, the sister institution of the IMF: http://www.worldbank.org/.

WTO. Another of my favorite sites, this is the website of the World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/index.htm.

The United Nations. This website is the source for a vast amount of information about UN programs: http://www.un.org/.

CHINESE COMPANIES:

HUAWEI TCL HAIER CHOVO COSCO FAW CHANGHONG DONGFENG motor food import & export company shanghai Bao steel easter airline china airline china shipping china petrol shanghai auto shanghai electric china gulf construction GALANZ Co. XUGONG(CHINA) LIUGONG(CHINA)

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