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发帖数: 6973 | 1 From Migrant to Magnate; Monday interview; Jimmy Lai Founder and chairman,
Next Media; The Hong Kong tycoon tells RAHUL JACOB how fleeing Maoist China
as a 12-year-old left him with no sense of risk in running a business.
Financial Times, Sept 19, 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73df0a0a-dfae
-11e0-8e15-00144feabdc0.html
("Sharp Daily [of Hong Kong] will be a multimedia offering, with readers
able to point their device at a quick response code at the end of an article
and have access to a video or audio clip about, say, a new noodle shop
chian")
Excerpt in the window of print: 'I had access to people who travelled to
hong Komg. I knew outside world was a beautiful world'
Note:
(a) Fishing trawler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_trawler
(designed to operate fishing trawls)
(b) The report says Mr Lai's "media company owns Aple Daily, the second most
read newspaper in both Hong Kong an dTaiwan."
Newspaper circulation in Hong Kong: Oriental Daily 東方日報 > Apple Daily >
Ming Pao > Sing Tao.
Newspaper circulation in Taiwan: Liberty Times > Apple Daily > United Daily
News > China Times
Similar to Americans, Taiwanese get their news mostly through television,
internet and cable.
Print Media. Government Information Office (GIO), Ececutive Yuan (EY), May
25, 2011.
http://www.taiwan.gov.tw/print.asp?xItem
=45122&ctNode=1916&mp=1001
(c) The free Sharp Daily 爽報 first appeared in Taiwan in 2006, and will
show up in Hong Kong Sept 19, 2011 (today).
(d) The report then states, "He made his first fortune by betting his year-
end bonus on stocks and using the winnings to buy an ailing garment
factoryin the mid-1970s. A few years later, while in New York, he chanced
upon a pizza shop called Jordano. In 1981, he used the name to brand" his
clothing empire.
"Smuggled to Hong Kong aboard a small boat at the age of 12, Lai worked as a
child-laborer in a garment factory for a wage of $8 per month. Founding of
GiordanoRising to the level of factory manager, Lai speculated his year-end
bonus on Hong Kong stocks to raise enough cash to buy out the owners of a
bankrupt garment factory, Comitex, in 1975 and began producing sweaters.
Customers included J.C. Penney, Montgomery Ward, and other U.S. retailers."
Jimmy Lai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
* The nationality Jordanian in English (a citizen of Jordan) is Giordano in
Italian and Jordano in Spanish.
(e) Friedrich Hayek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
(1899-1992; born in Vienna)
Quote: "He is considered to be one of the most important economists and
political philosophers of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974. Along with his mentor Ludwig von Mises,
he was an important contributor to the Austrian school of political economy.
Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate information which enable
individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important
achievement in economics.
---------------------------------Separately
(1) 探望陈光诚 两女士深夜遭洗劫被弃野外. VOA Chinese, Sept 19, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110919-activist-beaten-chen-guangcheng-130104383.html
("中国多位维权人士汇集山东省临沂市，原计划星期一上午集体探望依然遭到软禁的盲
人维权人士陈光诚，但其中两位女维权人士 [刘沙沙与妙觉法师] 决定夜里提前采取行
动，结果在东师古村村口遭到保安人员的殴打、抢劫和凌辱。她们正试图在休整后再闯
关看望陈光诚")
(2) 莫斯科电影节打开封存苏联被禁电影的黑盒子. VOA Chinese, Sept 19, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110919-moscow-film-festival-130113088.html
(这是俄罗斯第一次举办这样的电影节; 莫斯科正在举办一个名叫“架子上的电影”的
特殊电影节。所谓“架子上的电影”，指的是在苏联时代因为各种原因遭到禁映，被放
在电影档案馆中架子上的电影)
(3) 维权人士刘飞跃遭警方问讯，将“被旅游.” VOA Chinese, Sept 16, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110916-Hubei-activist-129941833.html |
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