The 2011 China Business Travel Summit will bring together some of the world’s and China's most influential travel industry leaders and Chinese corporate travel buyers to discuss core issues affecting business travel. TravelDaily ( www.traveldaily.cn ), China’s leading online publisher and event organizer with emphasis on distribution, marketing, and technology in the travel and tourism industries, announced today the 2011 China Business Travel Summit is now open for registration. “Participants in our summit seek solutions that can help transform, drive efficiency, and improve their business travel practice,” said TravelDaily’s He, “With the support from China’s leading corporations, such as Haier Group, ZTE, Lenovo Group, and Smartcom, we are confident we can create a truly interactive and inspiring event for travel decision-makers and travel buyers.” In one day of keynote speeches and panel discussions, industry leaders will explore how … [Read more...]
Windows Phone 8.1 update brings news features to the new market
Microsoft today announced the first update for Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana availability in new markets including China and the UK. Cortana Besides the update for Cortana, as a “beta” for UK and China, Microsoft also lands Cortana “alpha” in Canada, India and Australia. To be famous as smart assistant, the new Cortana is added up new natural language scenarios, snooze times for reminders and number of neat additions to “her” personality. Beside supporting the US English, Cortana now also can talk UK English and Chinese. For the UK version, Cortana has been tailored to support UK spellings and pronunciations with Bing provided local data on sports, the London Stock Exchange, and commuter conditions. With Chinese version, she can look up English words in the Bing Dictionary for people looking to brush up on their English. Live Folders Users now can organise their apps into folders on their Start screen! Microsoft calls this Live Folders … [Read more...]
Google closes book on Reader news story service
Google on Monday closed the book on its free Reader service for gathering news stories and other online items in simple, up-to-the-minute lists. Google on Monday closed the book on its free Reader service for gathering news stories and other online items in simple, up-to-the-minute lists. Reader's "RSS feeds" had long been a popular way to stay updated on subjects of interest, but users are increasingly turning to social media such as Facebook and Twitter instead. "Most content now is tied to some dedicated platform or other," said Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group. "Getting rid of this service shows good governance by Google... In a world of limited resources, this service just wasn't making the grade." Diehard Reader fans were outraged by Google's move. A 'Keep Google Reader Running' petition online at change.org had nearly 154,000 signatures as of Monday. A 'Please Don't Kill Google Reader' petition at the same website had logged 7,598 supporters. "This … [Read more...]
Late salvo sends Arsenal up to third
Arsenal scored three times in the last five minutes to beat Norwich City 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium and leap to third place in the Premier League table on Saturday. Michael Turner's header looked to have consigned Arsene Wenger's men to defeat, but Mikel Arteta equalised with an 85th-minute penalty before a Sebastien Bassong own goal and an injury-time strike from Lukas Podolski completed the comeback. Victory takes Arsenal above Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, neither of whom play in the league this weekend, and keeps them firmly on course to qualify for the Champions League. The hosts had the best of the first half but the closest they came to scoring was an Olivier Giroud header in the 23rd minute that came back off the crossbar. Turner put Norwich ahead in the 56th minute, ghosting in to meet Robert Snodgrass' inswinging free-kick with a close-range header. Arsenal, who recalled Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott after injury, saw Norwich goalkeeper Mark Bunn turn a Podolski … [Read more...]
When Trump starts being a threat to the Vietnamese way of life
Trump may seem entertaining, but his madness won't mean anything good for Vietnam. Perhaps the greatest joy of expatriation lies in the luxury of watching the political theater in your home country with all the dispassion of a daytime soap opera. You can simply roll your eyes at the stilted twists or turns, laugh at the bad acting or simply switch off the channel secure in the knowledge that no portion of your labor goes to the producers or their advertisers. It's all just free entertainment. At no point should this have felt more true than during the rise of Donald Trump—a man made by and for television. And yet he has proven as impossible to ignore as a worm hole opening up in your living room and slowly sucking everything you own into a parallel dimension. Growing up in Reagan's America, Donald Trump was a joke and not a very funny one. For a time, he occupied the brain of a cartoon cat during the last days of a popular Sunday comic strip. When I was 12, he made a … [Read more...]
Global Grains Trade Summit 2010 to Take Place in HCM City late June
Global Grains Trade Summit 2010 to Take Place in HCM City late June Asia is clearly redefining the balance of power in grains trade. The Asian region is leading the charge with unprecedented imports across major grains to manage food security. Be it inter regional and ASEAN trade agreements, or imports from major producers outside of Asia, the combined buying power of Asia is here to stay. In addition, the current El Nino phenomenon has brought massive crop damage and shortfalls across the world. Stockpile security has become paramount to manage food security, and prices remain uncertain. With the changing weather patterns resulting in massive changes in supply and demand, there is a need to determine how to overcome the volatility in the market. The Global Grains Trade Summit 2010 which will take place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on the 28 – 29 June 2010, shall focus on 5 major grains: rice, wheat, corn, soybean and barley with the aim of providing a platform for buyers, … [Read more...]
Monitoring center set up to keep tabs on suspect Formosa wastewater
A new monitoring station in Ha Tinh Province has officially entered service today to check on waste being discharged by Taiwanese steel company Formosa – one of the prime suspects for the recent mass fish deaths in central Vietnam. The center will operate 24/7 and automatically update every two minutes, and is located Ha Tinh's Center for Monitoring and Environmental Engineering. Formosa’s environmental activities are being monitored as part of the investigation into the mass fish deaths along the central coast. In early April, large quantities of fish washed up dead near the Vung Ang Economic Zone in Ha Tinh Province. This unusual phenomenon spread south along the coast of the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Thua Thien Hue, resulting in a total of 100 tons of fish killed. According to the results of an initial investigation published by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on April 27, chemical toxins released by human activities or … [Read more...]
Accuracy the price of speed in online news
by Tien Thanh Everyone knows that in the media, speed is what counts and the quicker a story spreads, the more popular it becomes. The web has clear advantages in spreading the news. However, with so many competing sources, accuracy is often the price that is paid. The mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines' Flight 370, once again proved the online media's superiority in delivering news to readers, both in terms of speed and diversity of content. Online newswires flooded the front pages with up-to-the-minute information, stories after stories of the latest photos, visual infographics, videos recorded from search planes, and each of these stories also attracted hundreds of comments. The online coverage of the incident far surpassed that of traditional media orgainisations. Available on smartphones, tablets and laptops, the young tech-savvy generation has access to news like never before. "I often check the news on my smartphones. I have not brought a printed newspaper for a … [Read more...]
Shares edge up at the last minute in HCM City
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI - Stocks on the HCM Stock Exchange edged up in the last trading minutes yesterday, but the overall market condition was negative as investors remained cautious prior to year-end holidays. The benchmark VN-Index, the measure of 321 stocks, gained marginally to close the session at 664.4 points. The gauge slid 1.6 per cent for the week. The losers outnumbered the gainers by 130-110, while 81 ended flat. Gains of heavyweight stocks such as dairy firm Vinamilk (VNM), real estate developer VinGroup (VIC), Vietcombank (VCB), Vietinbank (CTG), insurer Bảo Việt Holdings (BVH) and steelmaker Hòa Phát Group (HPG) rescued the market from another fall. On the Hà Nội Stock Exchange, without the support of large-cap stocks, the HNX-Index decreased 0.9 per cent to end at 79.1 points. The Index slipped 0.8 per cent this week. The decline was attributed to weak purchasing, as investors worried about the markets being pulled down by large-cap shares and had their minds on the … [Read more...]
At border marker O, a link to the rest of the world
Vu A Chua walks a lot. His job requires him to. A native of Dien Bien Province, the Mong man joined the border force a year ago, and is now a member of the Apachai Border Guard Post in Muong Nhe District, which straddles two borders, that with Laos and China. The lives of frontier residents and border guard soldiers have changed significantly since Viettel began providing mobile phone services, especially 4G. “My work is to manage Vietnamese border line with Laos, which is seven days of walking through forests and mountains, and the Vietnamese border line with China, which is one day’s walking,” Vu A Chua told Viet Nam News. The post is 300km away from Dien Bien City and 800 km from Ha Noi. While the job is difficult, there has been a qualitative change over the last five years, with the soldiers manning the frontier area carrying one more piece of equipment – mobile phones. While this may not seem like a big deal in other areas, at the Apachai … [Read more...]