Li & Fung

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(1) Steve Denning, Scalable Collaboration: Lessons From China: Li & Fung. Forbes, Oct 8, 2011
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/10/08/scalable-collaboration-lessons-from-china-li-fung/
("Li & Fung owns practically nothing. Its role is to figure out a way to orchestrate factories")

Note:
(a) FUNG Pak-liu 冯柏燎 and LI To-ming 李道明 founded Li & Fung 利豐公司 in Canton/ Guangzhou in 1906. The company relocated to Hong Kong in 1949. See Li & Fung Group
http://www.lifunggroup.com/eng/global/home.php
("WHO WE ARE"--the tag in the top horizontal bar)
(b) Li & Fung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_%26_Fung
(c) SEHK stands for Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

(2) Russell Flannery, Well-Off Chinese Want Luxury In Bed, Too, ES Kluft Says. Forbes, Oct 6, 2011
http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2011/10/06/well-off-chinese-want-luxury-in-bed-too-e-s-kluft-says/
("The selling price per item [bed]: up to $50,000 each")

Note:
(a) Earl S Kluft is president and owner of ES Kluft & Company.  
http://kluftmattress.com/home.html
(b) I can not find Chinese name of Eternal Sleep. I am never superstitious, but many Chinese and Taiwanese are. The store name is the same as a phrase: He went to eternal sleep.

(3) Alissa Walker, How An Innovative Bathhouse Keeps Rural China Healthy. Fast Company, Sept 8, 2011.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664875/a-bathhouse-provides-a-hot-shower-hygiene-and-health-for-a-chinese-village

My comment:
(a) BaO Architects  BaO建筑事务所 (创始人: 建筑师、设计师李鼐含)
(b) Shamen  甘肃省天水市清水县 山门镇
(c) There is no Chinese translation for Split Bathhouse. Indeed four big Chinese characters adorns the outside of the bathhouse: 山门澡堂.
(d) Children of Madaifu  马大夫之家 (an association founded in 1999 by a French doctor, Marcel Roux  胡•马塞尔医生, and based in Beijing and Baoji 宝鸡)
(e) I do not know how practical the bathhouse is> Will villagers be willing to walk a long distance to and from home? Most important, due to solar heating, in half a year heating is insufficient.

(4) Michael Alison Chandler, Private University in North Korea Offers Lessons in Science and World Peace. Washington Post, Oct 7, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/private-university-in-north-korea-offers-lessons-in-science-and-world-peace/2011/07/25/gIQAQ5lPSL_story.html?sub=AR
(The year-old Pyongyang University of Science and Technology)

Note:
(a) Chin-Kyung “James” KIM  金 镇庆 (美籍南韩基督徒)
(b) Yanbian University of Science and Technology  延边大学科学技术学院 (中外合作; 中方：延边大学 + 外方：金镇庆; 招生起止年份 1991年―2020年)

(5) Bill Powell, China's New Politics; Anticipating a change in the presidency, the country debates competing social and economic models. Fortune, Sept 8, 2011
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/chinas-new-politics/

(6) Michael Birbaum, German Brewers Worry About Future.   Washington Post, Oct 7, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/german-brewers-worry-about-future/2011/10/05/gIQAqNuTSL_story.html

Quote:

"Germans drink less beer every year, so breweries founded in the 14th century are searching for ways to compete in the 21st. The answer, increasingly, is to look to an uncomfortable place for German brewers who pride themselves as being the best in the world: America, which in Germany has a reputation for making beers that taste like water.

"'If you look through the economy, what Germans are good at is taking established ideas and making them a lot better,' said John Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany who still lives in Berlin. * * * But, he said, there are 'outer limits of inventiveness. . . . They’re never going to produce a Steve Jobs, but they will produce lots of people who make really high-quality stuff.'

"In America, 'there is more beer diversity on the shelf than you will find in Munich or Prague or various other classic brewing centers,' said Julie Johnson, contributing editor at All About Beer magazine. * * * In recent years, American brewers have tried making ever-more-unusual beers. Dogfish Head, near Rehoboth Beach, has tried replicating fermented drinks from ancient China and Egypt.

Note:
(a) dogfish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfish
(Dogfish can have many meanings, but usually refers to a type of shark)
(b) Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboth_Beach,_Delaware
(Rehoboth is a name of Biblical appellation [in Hebrew], meaning "place [or space] for all")


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