Language inability may affect Hong Kong business</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Language inability may affect Hong Kong business"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Language,inability,may,affect,Hong,Kong,business"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">09-12-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Language inability may affect Hong Kong business</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_Bhh39wUZjWXb1v9yg9eC_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hong Kong: Business leaders and educators Hong Kong fear declining standards of spoken and written English in the southern Chinese territory are jeopardising its future as an international commercial centre. Linguist Arthur McNeill, head of the Hong Kong Chinese University's English unit, said Beijing was worried and embarrassed by the poor English in Hong Kong as its own standards were improving so quickly <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11638933%5E401,00.html " target="blank">www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11638933%5E401,00.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show