The greenest city in China, Dongtan (which is located near Shanghai), will have its first condos and commercial space for sale in the market by 2010. A bridge and tunnel to get residents to Shanghai airport and financial district will also be built. By 2050, the city is estimated to be populated by 500,000 residents. The city’s build will also be used to test the theory that it can get greener as it develops. Feel like a dream? I hope the theory will be proven so that many cities can follow and learn from China. I don’t know how it will be, but China must be really great if they can keep the city green while providing a place for so many people to live. Read the article here. You can also see some pictures of the city at current condition.
Archive for June, 2009
The greenest city in China
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Reopening of Shanghai Grand Cinema
Sunday, June 28th, 2009This is an article about the reopening of a historical cinema in Shanghai, the Shanghai Daguangming Grand Cinema, as a masterpiece coming out from one-year-renovation. The cinema now meets the old and new design both in a place, to keep the big name remembered by many people and to accommodate modern audiences. The cinema also has some plus points, which I guess are used for selling historical value as marketing tool, such as they display the historical photos of the former building. The building and features are now luxurious. If you are visiting China, particularly Shanghai, maybe you can visit the cinema to document. Make sure you read article before. Read here.
Health is a big wealth
Sunday, June 28th, 2009This is article that might realize you the importance of keeping your health. Health is wealth, can you doubt this? I ever read that most of our retire money goes to health treatment. Don’t you wish to use the money for traveling or enjoying good food? Then you have to keep being healthy. This article gives some thumb rules about how to start a healthy life. Among them suggest us to eat sufficiently, avoid too much calories and fat, limit salt, sugar, alcohol, and drugs. We should have a balance diet anyway and stick to it. Read trusted references for more about starting your healthy life. I suggest you read this article as a good beginning. Many information is provided there. Visit the page.
Ginger uses in culinary
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Ginger has a mild and strong taste, and the most important, they have many health benefits. If the taste makes you feel difficult to come with delicious food and beverages, I found an article that may give you ideas. For dishes, they are often cooked as snack or as ingredient. For drinks, you can make ginger tea added with extract of lemon, orange, honey, or anything you like. The root of mature ginger can also be juiced. The powder-dried ginger root is often used as spice to bread or other dishes. There are candy, biscuit, liqueur, cakes, snaps, wine, coffee, curries, and many others that use ginger as flavor or main material. This article has it all. So if you want to make healthy beverages, particularly hot drinks, you can look for the idea from this article.
Acupuncture
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Acupuncture is one of the most popular alternative treatments. However, since I have never done it before, I am curious about it benefits and safety. An article I found gives some important information about acupuncture. It is said there that acupuncture is effective in treating nausea, chronic low back pain, neck pain, and headache. Businesses have also marketed many benefits of acupuncture such as weight loss, acne treatment, therapy, etc. Many big and global organizations, as well as many government reports, have conducted studies about the efficacy of acupuncture. There comes a general agreement that acupuncture is at least safe when done by well-trained practitioners. If you want to know more, I suggest you read the article here.
About acne
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Many of us get problem with acne, it’s painful and affect our confidence when meeting other people. Here I found an article about acne, in which it reviews a report titled “Acne”. It is written there that acne is most common during adolescence. It affects ore than 85% teenagers before, for most people, it diminishes on early twenties. There is however no fix age. Some people can continue to suffer from acne until forties or even beyond. If you think acne is a problem for you, maybe this article can be useful. The information is originally derived from by Dr. Choy, so it is from trust-worthy reference. After reading, maybe you can decide better whether you read further treatment or not. Read here for the review.
Secrets of sales
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Here is a review about the book “Sales Secret” by Nun Schei. In this book, there are some proven methods that encourage successful sales. As review by Opcionista, you may even be selling without realizing it. Some tips in this marketing book is also shared I this article, for example: know who you are selling to, tailor your behavior and watch how your audience is listening, listen and pay attention to what your audience says, welcome worries as a chance to emphasize the strong points, prepare for anything and make some plans in reserves, close the sale by getting to the point. If you are a marketer who sells product/service, or if you do presentation frequently, this book can be your guide. Read the article here.
Benefits of ginger
Sunday, June 28th, 2009I hit this article and found it worth reading. There is a lot of information about ginger here. For you who live at Asia, India, Arab, or China, ginger might be a popular herbal tradition that used and cooked daily. Ginger is believed to have many medical benefits, and so many people put it in their dishes as one of the important spices. Besides, people also use it for medical uses and indications such as digestive aid for stomach, prevent vomiting that associates with motion sickness, pregnancy, and cancer chemotherapy. The effectiveness of ginger has also been proved in many studies. As people are sure about the safety of ginger, it has become a popular alternative treatment that is cheap and effective. If you want more information about ginger, you can read the article here.
Best independent retailers in America
Sunday, June 28th, 2009This is an article in Businessweek, presented by Emily Schmitt, that lists 25 best independent stores in America as profiled by George Whalin. They are valued from some aspects such as: great location, profitability, fantastic selection, and competitive prices. That is not all things counted, the stores have to be in business for at least 25 years, be profitable, and have something to distinguish them from competitors. Mr. Whalin has also visited hundreds of retailers across America for 20 years to find that best stores have similar practice to each other. They have customer engagement, a big value. This provides in-store service that customers can hardly find in chain stores. Check the article to see the list and profiles. Read here.
Yunnan’s Redlands
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Yunnan means ”South of the Clouds”, a land that has rich water and sienna red soil. It is one of the few regions in China where you can really feel the moisture re-hydrating you. As what I read in an article, this fertile red earth also has dense flora, amazing waterfall, stone forest and valleys. You can see many imaginative formation of stone in the forest, such as: rampant bears, sleeping bears, Versailles, peacocks, medieval masonry, and sclaed-down Great Wall. Yunna has three historical towns: Shiyang, Lijiang, and Dali. The less traveled is Shiyang, a town where people still make salt traditionally. These red lands are extremely beautiful, as the pictures presented and described in the article. I’m sure you will start imagining after reading it. Read here.