Air China Launches China’s First Business Travel Card

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - - NYSE's Bluenext and Chinese-Beijing Environmental Exchange (CBEEX) further strengthen global partnership NYSE's Bluenext and CBEEX announce the development of China's first Voluntary Standard at the first US-China Low Carbon Conference in New York today. Not only does this strengthen the new partnership between CBEEX and Bluenext first announced earlier this summer, but also marks the first step towards a Voluntary system to limit emissions domestically in China.

September 1st, 2009 CHESTER, England - MBNA today announced the launch of a new credit card offering no balance transfer handling fee and an introductory rate of 1.9 % p.a. for 12 months on balance transfers.

September 1st, 2009 RIYADH - In cooperation with Ensan Charity Association in order to enhance its role in serving the community, Al Rajhi Bank recently launched "Ensan" Credit Card to support social and charity projects, in addition to encouraging charity spending to support key causes in the Saudi community. An agreement has been signed for launching this special product by HRH Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, Chairman of Ensan Charity and Mr.

June 8th, 2009 PANAMA CITY - EPAY announces the launch of their newest EPAY debit card, ideal for personal and business usage worldwide. EPAY Inc. is a high performance, online payment platform allowing consumers and small businesses to send and receive money transfers worldwide through epayarea.com debit cards.

May 31st, 2009 UTRECHT, The Netherlands - ISIC Card Holders get 2 Free Travel Days on the Eurail Select Pass UTRECHT, The Netherlands, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Students and young backpackers can now get more bang for their buck on rail travel through Europe. The Eurail Group GIE, the organization which issues Eurail Passes, is teaming up with the International Student Identity Card Association (ISIC) to promote jointly developed offers to young people around the globe.

May 19th, 2009 PANAMA CITY - EPAY Inc. has just released a new and unparalleled service allowing companies around the world to conduct business transactions using prepaid debit cards with no foreign exchange conversion fees.

May 11th, 2009 BOLTON, England - sQuidcard, the eMoney operator and the University of Bolton, today announces the launch of sQuid eMoney across the University campus. sQuidcard provides contactless eMoney services for campus and retail locations, on an available-to-all pre-paid smart card.

April 20th, 2009 NEWTON, Massachusetts - Daodao.com to Serve Chinese Travelers both Domestically and Abroad; TripAdvisor Domains also Launched to Serve Portuguese-, Swedish- and Dutch-speaking Travelers TripAdvisor(R), the world's most popular and largest travel community, today announced the official launch of its Chinese domain, www.daodao.com, to provide a localized travel research site for Chinese travelers. Daodao.com, which is derived from a Chinese expression meaning "to arrive," is operated out of Beijing and is led by TripAdvisor General Manager, Hao Wu.

April 14th, 2009 CHESTER, England - At a time when small businesses are feeling the effects of the recession, MBNA has today announced the launch of a new business credit card, designed specifically with sole traders and small businesses in mind. The new MBNA Business Credit Card offers 0% p.a.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - NetJets Europe, the largest business jet company in Europe, today announced the launch of a 'Summer Card'. The NetJets Europe Summer Card is designed for Middle Eastern customers who are planning to spend their holidays in Europe this summer.

April 17th, 2009 China's premier sees positive changes in economyBOAO, China — China's Premier Wen Jiabao says the country's stimulus package is starting to pay off and positive changes have taken place in the economy. Speaking at a business forum, Wen said the economy is "better than expected" but warned that global economic recovery will be a "long and tortuous process." Wen spoke Saturday at the Boao Forum, an annual gathering of government and business leaders on the southern island province of Hainan.

August 19th, 2009 Chase introduces new card for wealthiest customersWILMINGTON, Del. — Chase Card Services, a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said Wednesday it will now offer a rewards card designed for wealthy customers.

July 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia's Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen has warned that the country's business people may not want to work in China in the wake of Australian origin Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu being arrested in the country on espionage charges. "The Chinese Government will be very aware that it is not good for business certainty if there's a regular pattern of foreign business people being incarcerated," news.co.au quoted Brown, as saying.

October 1st, 2009 DHARAMSALA - Tibetan exiles living in Dharamsala on Thursday staged a protest march on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Carrying banners, placards and their national flags, they marched down the winding streets to protest what they called 60 years of Chinese oppression.

August 3rd, 2009 Report: US business travel down 15 percent in '09SHERMAN, Conn. — Corporate travel is expected to decline 15 percent this year, according to a new report from PhoCusWright, the travel industry research company.

April 27th, 2009 PhoCusWright says online travel finally downSHERMAN, Conn. — The recession is finally taking its toll on online travel, with a decline in revenues this year forecast by PhoCusWright, the travel industry research company.

May 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A court sent Ashish Ravindranathan, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student, to a 14-day police remand here Saturday after he was nabbed for allegedly duping 50 credit card holders. Ashish, a second semester student at IIT-Bombay's extension centre in Gandhinagar, was arrested by the city crime branch officials Friday night for allegedly duping credit card holders of Rs.650,000.

January 8th, 2009 LONDON - There is good news for Roberto Cavalli fans as the designer will introduce a snakeskin 'Cavalli' MasterCard March 1. The card will be available in all his boutiques worldwide and via the designer's website.

May 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - China, which has been leading the effort o restart six party talks with Russia, US, Japan, South and North Korea - is walking a tightrope after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said China is "resolutely opposed" to the North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

June 30th, 2009 United passing credit card fees to some agentsDALLAS — United Airlines has caused an uproar among travel agents with plans to force them to the pay credit-card fees when their customers buy tickets with plastic. The agents say it's an unfair move by United to shift a cost of its business on to their backs.