Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Anil Ambani's failure story serves as a sobering lesson in how bad business choices and a lack of foresight can bring down a once-thriving empire. With $42 billion in assets, Anil Ambani ranked as the sixth richest businessman in the world following the split of Reliance. Anil Ambani, on the other hand, went from a peak to nothing, while Mukesh Ambani grew his business and rose to become one of the richest industrialists in the world. Anil Ambani's own choices led to his downfall. He started many companies simultaneously, without proper planning or vision. He dreamed big dreams of becoming a big player in telecom, power, infrastructure, and entertainment sectors, but his plans were...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Zong Qinghou was born in poor circumstances at Suqian in Jiangsu province on November 16 1945. Having dropped out of school to help support his family, he was sent during Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution to work in a salt factory on Zhoushan island, south of Shanghai, where he stayed for 15 years. In his spare time, Zong read and studied communist texts including The Collected Works of Mao Zedong and How the Steel was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky. In 1979, Zong returned home upon the retirement of his mother, who was a school teacher. He eventually returned to Hangzhou, and only found menial work at a local school due to the low level of his education.And then he found work as a...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Squatting on the ground in front of a bicycle parked along an empty alley in Singapore, an elderly man carefully hammers a block of dry ice into smaller pieces. “It stings, but I’m quite used to it,” the man, who prefers to be known only by his last name, Liang, said in Mandarin.Most hawkers collect their ice cream and dry ice from wholesale distributors around the country. It’s a windy, overcast Friday morning and Liang, who is in his 70s, is getting ready for work. Soon, he’ll load his cooler with ice cream from the wholesale distributor next door before selling the treat to passers-by in the sweltering equator heat for about S$1.50 (US$1.10), with only...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Although a bit of summer sunshine can be lovely, it can also make it difficult to keep your home cool without expensive air-conditioning. Stave off the sweltering with our top tips to cool down your rooms – fast. 1: Close curtains and windows Tempting as it might be to throw your windows open during a heatwave, leaving them shut when the day is at its hottest will keep the house cool. So try to only let the air in early, or late, in the day. Light coloured blinds and curtains made of a weightier fabric offer the best heat-blocking potential, so go for these if you’re thinking up updating yours – but keep hold of any darker ones that you replace, so you can switch...
Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
-Lopburi in central Thailand has been hosting its annual Monkey Buffet Festival since the late 1980s -As part of the festival, the town piles tables with up to two tonnes of fruit and veg for the monkeys to enjoy -The monkeys have a special taste for durian, a pungent tropical fruit, according to organisers Lopburi has been laying on an annual feast of fruit for its population of macaques since the late 1980s, part religious tradition and part tourist attraction. This year's Monkey Buffet Festival saw around 1,000 hungry simians descend on tables and wheelchairs piled high with fruit outside the town's 800-year-old Pra Prang Sam Yod temple. (In this picture macaques feast on a...
Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
Songkran comes from the Sanskrit word sankranti, which roughly translates as “astrological transition”. The Buddhist festival, which is celebrated from April 13 to 15, marks the Thai New Year. It’s a time for personal cleansing, making merit and keeping cool amid searing heat. It’s also an opportunity for families to get together and enjoy specially prepared meals. In readiness for the holiday, Thais deep-clean their homes and public places, including offices and schools. Parks and pavements are also spruced up. People wake up early and visit temples to pray and present monks with offerings of food, robes and donations. At home, young family members pour rose...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Nine-day celebration held in Phuket, Thailand, honours the 'Nine Emperor Gods' Those involved shun all animal products while they offer bodies to deities Swords, axes and umbrella handles were yesterday pushed through the cheeks of Taoist devotees in a series of unusual piercings as part of Thailand's Vegetarian Festival which returned from a two-year pandemic hiatus. The nine-day Vegetarian Festival celebration, which takes place every year, honours the 'Nine Emperor Gods'. Those involved shun all animal products while they offer their bodies to deities who they believe will banish bad luck. Graphic images show the piercings being done at the event in Phuket, which previously drew...
Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
[Unicode] အမှုအမျိုးအစားနှစ်မျိုးရှိရာ လူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်အား ထိခိုက်နစ်နာအောင် ပြုမှုများတွင် ရာဇဝတ်မှုဖြင့် တိုင်တန်းအမှု ဖွင့်လှစ်တရားစွဲဆိုရပြီး နိုင်ငံတော်မှ နစ်နာသူကိုယ်စား တရားလို ပြုလုပ်ပါသည်။ လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်အချင်းချင်း...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] ကန်ထရိုက်ဆောက်လုပ်နေဆဲ မြေပိုင်ရှင်ကွယ်လွန်သွားရင် လုပ်ငန်းရပ်ဆိုင်းသွားမလား ဆိုတဲ့ ထူးဆန်းမေးခွန်းလေးအပါအဝင် အမေးအဖြေသုံးပုဒ်ကို ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာတင်ဆက်ပေးထားပါတယ်။ မေးခွန်း ( ၁) - ကန်ထရိုက် တိုက်ဆောက်လုပ်နေဆဲ၌ မြေပိုင်ရှင် ကွယ်လွန်သွားပါက...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] ၁။ အိမ်တွင် (နှင့် အလုပ်) တွင် အလုပ်ဖြစ်ထွန်းမှု စွမ်းအား တိုးလာခြင်း တကယ်ပါနော်! သန့်ရှင်းသပ်ရပ်မှုရှိခြင်းက သင့်အား လုပ်ငန်းခွင်တွင် ပိုမိုထုတ်လုပ်နိုင်စေပါလိမ့်မယ်။ သုတေသနများအရ သန့်ရှင်းသောပတ်ဝန်းကျင်တွင် နေထိုင်လုပ်ကိုင်သူတွေဟာ အလုပ်ထဲ...