Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
In 1993, Gates, accompanied by his future wife Melinda, visited Omaha, Nebraska, to attend a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholder’s conference. They were greeted by Buffett, who quickly whisked them away to Borsheims, a high-end jewelry store owned by his company, intent on helping them select a diamond engagement ring.“I spent 6% of my net worth on an engagement ring back in 1951,” Buffett told Gates, suggesting that the Microsoft Corp. founder do the same. At the time, Gates’ net worth was estimated at $6.2 billion, which meant following Buffett's advice would set the ring’s price at $370 million.Despite the suggestion, Gates did not indulge in the...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Shot by Cupid’s arrow? Love may no longer be the ultimate, all-consuming thing that kings have gone to war for — at least not in this economy, in the face of cold, hard cash. A recent survey from financial services company Empower reveals a third of Americans believe money is more important than love. What’s more, a surprising 26% of respondents said they’d actually forgo love for the rest of their lives in exchange for an average net worth of $128 million. Here’s how much money each generation would accept in lieu of love — would you do the same? Not everyone agrees on living without love for over $100 million — the average dollar value varies...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
In a small warehouse in Cambodia's capital, a group of workers sit and spin waste plastic bottles into strips, turning them into bristles for brooms, of which they churn out 500 each day. For the past 11 months they have transformed around 40 tonnes of discarded plastic bottles, about 5,000 bottles per day, by "upcycling" them into brooms they say are more robust than regular brushes. Those sell for 10,000 riel ($2.50) and 15,000 riel ($3.75) each. Plastic strips from the empty bottles are collected into a bundle on a machine, before being softened in hot water and sliced evenly to be sewn with metal wires into the ends of a bamboo stick. Cambodian entrepreneur Has Kea, 41,...
Knowledge | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Matt Busbice and his partners have built and sold several outdoor companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But Busbice, the 42-year-old owner of sporting goods store BuckFeather in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says he has never felt richer than he did the day he received a single dollar. "I haven't had that much faith in humanity in a very long time," Busbice said. He says it all began about a month ago. It was early morning, and the fire alarm was going off inside his condo complex. So, Busbice shot out of bed and raced down the stairs only to discover there was no fire. But he was awake now, so even though he was wearing mismatched clothes and was disheveled, he decided to go out...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
[Unicode] နေစရာအိမ်နဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ ခက်ခဲတဲ့ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တွေလည်း ရှိပါတယ်။ ဘုန်းကြီးရဲ့ ဒကာတစ်ယောက်မှာ အိမ်နဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး အခက်အခဲဖြစ်နေတော့ ဘုန်းကြီးက စဉ်းစားပေးတယ်။ တစ်ဖက်သားကို နေစရာချမ်းသာပေးရမယ်၊ သူ့မှာကလည်း သူများအိမ်ငှားနေရတာဆိုတော့ ပေးစရာက...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] နွေရာသီ မှာ အပူရှိန်မြင့်လာတာနဲ့အမျှ ခန္ဓာကိုယ်ရဲ့ ပုံမှန်အပူချိန်ကို ထိန်းသိမ်းနိုင်ဖို့အတွက် ခန္ဓာကိုယ်က အလုပ်တွေ ပိုလုပ်ရပါတယ်။ ချွေးထွက်ခြင်းဟာ ခန္ဓာကိုယ်အပူချိန်ကို ထိန်းသိမ်းပေးတဲ့ ဇီဝကမ္မဖြစ်စဉ်တစ်ခု...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] မိမိအမည်ပေါက်ဖြင့် ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုခိုင်မာသည့် မြေကွက်ပေါ်တွင် အဆောက်အအုံဆောက်လုပ်ရန် ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိကာ ဘဏ်ချေးငွေလျှောက်ထားရယူလိုပါက တစ်ဦးချင်း အိမ်ရာချေးငွေ အမျိုးအစားဖြင့်သည့် Home Construction Loan ဆောက်လုပ်ရေး အိမ်ရာချေးငွေအား...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
When life has got you in a slump, turn to these inspirational short stories. Not only is reading them like getting an internet hug for the soul, but they just may spark an idea or a change in you for the better. 1. Everyone Has a Story in Life A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…“Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed… “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man… “Why don’t you take your son to a...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော် စည်ပင်သာယာရေးကော်မတီ မြေယာစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုအဖွဲ့သည် - မြေပိုင်မြေ၊ ဘိုးဘပိုင်မြေ - ဂရန်ရ မြေပိုင်မြေ - သက်တမ်းရှိသော မြေငှားဂရန်မြေ - လယ်ယာမြေဟူသော စကားရပ်တွင် အကျုံးမဝင်ကြောင်း ဝန်ခံချက် လက်မှတ်ရရှိပြီး မြေများအား မြေအမည်ပေါက်...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာတော့ အိမ်ခြံမြေတိုက်ခန်း၀ယ်ယူရာတွင် သတင်းစာကြော်ငြာ ဘာကြောင့် ထည့်သင့်သလဲ.....ဆိုတဲ့ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်မေးခွန်းလေးအပါအဝင် မေးခွန်းသုံးခုကို ရှေ့နေမှ တိကျမှန်ကန်စွာဖြေကြားပေးထားပါတယ်။ မေးခွန်း (၁) - အိမ်ခြံမြေတိုက်ခန်း၀ယ်ယူရာတွင်...