#pacific tycoon containers

[aemilius-cupero]

The world has witnessed many scams in the decade, such as Forex Scams, Binary options scams, Dating scams, and so on. Among the shipping container scams was the most notorious one resulting in people losing their fortune. Pacific Tycoon was one of the major players in the shipping container scams.

This is a short video about how Pacific Tycoon used to run their scam operations. For more details and information, please check our blogs and YouTube videos. The links are mentioned below.

[sondering]

[      havana rose liu  +  twenty seven  +  non-binary  +  they/she      ]      the  city  of  new  york  welcomes  alberta 'birdie' huang  to  the  social  season  of  1887,  the  cousin  of  the astor family.  known  to  be  effervescent  and  creative,  their  rumored  capricious and  entitled tendencies  might  prove  to  be  their  unmaking.  the  street  musicians  often  string  along  a  tune  that  sounds  like  c'est si bon  by  eartha kitt  whenever  they  are  near,  hoping  for  a  coin  or  two  as  a  reward.  unbeknown  to  their  peers,  birdie  views  the  social  season  as  a playing field  but  when  holding  a  secret  such  as  they have no intention of returning to california,  it  would  be  best  to  keep  their  opinions  to  themselves. 

basic statistics :

full name : xiang huang ( 翔 黄).

alternatively : alberta huang.

nicknames or aliases : they are best known as birdie; they often use the alias robin stanford for their work.

age : twenty - seven.

date of birth : february 10th 1860.

occupation : socialite, heiress, artist.

parents : changyin 'chuck' huang (51), railroad tycoon and executive of the central pacific railroad + bernadette 'bernie' astor (48), daughter of the patriarch of the new york astor family.

siblings : charles (17), john (15), amaranthe (12), iris (10), indigo (10).

other familial relationships : montgomery astor ( maternal cousin ).

marital status : unmarried.

sexuality : bisexual.

the secret :

sacramento means a cage they have no interest in being contained in. they have delayed taking on the mantle of the family business for years, and all they want to is to run away from it - - the perfect escape comes in the form of the astor power in the city, and her own heavy wallet. since last season, they have began to rent a studio in which they receive guests to have their likeliness painted; due to the secrecy of it all, they have worn an alias when showing off their work, but it has not yet risen to the kind of sucess they'd need to convince themselves and their parents that this could be a way of life. this season must change this.

thoughts on high society :

birdie takes nothing too serious, and high society is nothing different. they only see what benefits them - - as an astor cousin, child one of the richest men in america, they have a leeway to their arrogance and indulgence and they use it as they see fit. they adore the socialization aspect of it all, and often search for subjects for their work amongst the people of the ton.

headcanons :

when chuck huang first went to new york, in the 50s, he may have went into the season expecting to land himself a wife, but he certainly didn’t expect to meet and fall for an astor. only the very fresh second generation of an immigrant family made rich by the gold rush, it was unlikely he would be the best fit for an astor daughter, yet bernie would always tell their story as a love story. for why else would she leave new york and go all the way to california? it was a new world, in all senses of the world. she had to acclimate to her husband’s state, culture, life.

thankfully, the affection they had for one another grew into respect and a partnership that would only grow chuck’s prospects though it was for his own self that he gained the one that would make him famous all around america: the central pacific railroad along with three friends, chuck became known to carry the project to build the first transcontinental railroad in northern america, a railroad that would cover from east to west. it was chuck who would hammer in the golden spike along the way; once it was driven in, and quickly removed, it would be returned to the huang home in sacramento, not the first and definitely not the last of their gilded objects around the lavish home.

birdie was born way before their father would come in renown. their home was already lavish and great, however, becoming of the huang name — and so was the child. named xiang, an auspicious name chosen by her grandfather, she was meant to soar high as the heir to such a great fortune. right away, bernie, her mother, refused to ever call the child xiang — she called her birdie, instead. isn’t it all the same? possible insensitivity would be washed away as the name became her own, even before her chinese name, or the english name attached to her school papers. that’s what she was: just birdie. they’ve always liked it better this way.

with so much wealth and influence on the tip of their fingers, birdie grew spoiled and indulged to ridiculous standards. all she wanted, she got; she had the opportunity to try horse riding, learn arithmetics, pick whatever language her heart desired, dance and paint and sing and all of that. to their mother’s dismay, most of the things they did, they did in the most basic of fashions but, at the very least, they did it enthusiastically which, theri father said, was a good thing. one needs to keep their spirits high in this world, even in front of failure, chuck would tell them. and so they did.

the one thing birdie liked above all was art. from finger painting, to sketching, to designing the most intricate paintings with oil, that was their calling in life. yet, the eldest by at least a decade, it was obvious that the huang family name would weight on their shoulders. instead of artistic pursuits, they were encouraged to take on practical ones, learn of engineering and architecture and railroads and all things they did not care about — railroads for them only mattered because it lead them to trains, and trains lead them to trips and trips lead them to wherever they wanted, far from their parents.

from the time they were old enough, they would go to spend the seasons in new york. their debut went splendid — at least four offers of marriage they laughed about; thankfully, their father was picky enough to allow her yet this one another fortune. whenever they’re in the city, they stay with their cousins, the astor, and never fail to enjoy what society has to offer. new york is better in every way to california, that they are certain of, and, as their university studies come to its end even as they try to drag it out, birdie thinks that they may just have to find a way to root them here instead of there, somehow.

connections :

astor acquaintaces, people they have met in former seasons

people who travel around!

muses - people who have sat for her or who have comissioned in the past or will be painted now!!

perhaps someone who wishes to take advantage of them or dislikes their carefree manner?

lovers - they are rather fickle hearted but are drawn to beauty so there's always the possibility of some flings and affairs over the years

[graflexcamera]

Eadweard Muybridge

In her 2015 book, Indecent Exposure: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes, Sarah Gordon examines Muybridge’s profound and continuing influence on Art, Science and Photography.

In 1872, Leland Stanford (California Governor, Central Pacific RR tycoon, Stanford University namesake) hired Eadweard Muybridge to photograph his horse, Occident, at a trot. Stanford wanted to prove that during a trot all four hooves of a horse simultaneously left the ground. Muybridge famously achieved this, producing a series of photographs, taken 1/25th second apart, at an unprecedented 1/2000th of a second exposure time. (Wet plate collodion).

In 1884, this led the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to commission Muybridge to produce a large series (over 23,000 negatives, this time on Dry Plate) examining Animal Locomotion. A book of this name was published in 1888, containing over 700 photographic plates, each showing a series of actions, usually photographed simultaneously from three angles. These included men, women, children (all usually nude) birds and quadrupeds. The publication of thousands of images of nude human beings during the height of Victorian anti-vice crusades was probably only possible because this work was commissioned by a prestigious University, and directed by a distinguished group of select professors and art professionals.  In the 1880s, the Realist Movement in fine art painting encouraged artists to rely less on convention and the Ideal, and more on direct observation of contemporary scenes. Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion photographs proved to be an unprecedented revelation, showing a previously unseen reality of human and animal movement. This accelerated a decades-old controversy about the representation of movement in Art. Some artists, such as Realist Thomas Eakins (who was on the Muybridge Commission) embraced the new truths revealed by the instantaneous photographs, while others, such as Eugene Veron, argued that reality should be represented ‘as it presents itself to our visual sense’ and not ‘as it is’. August Rodin rejected the frozen-in-time depictions, saying ‘…time does not stop’. The mechanically produced image was argued to be science, while Art must come from the human impression of movement. “It is not the Artist’s business to represent what no human eye can detect, but the general impression produced by a series of motions” and “The artist should aim for expression, not report”. (Philadelphia Public Ledger’, Talcott Williams?) Thomas Eakins was criticized for his ‘mechanical experiments’ being ‘artistically false’, and that he made the mistake of supplementing his keen visual scrutiny of the scene with scientific investigation of the subject.  A new truth can be difficult to accept.

Gordon, Sarah. 2015. Indecent Exposure: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion Nudes. Yale University Press, New haven and London.

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free eBooks + Video + Music] TVGHF Goodie Pack 2022 [Video Game Making Of & Cookbook]

As part of their 14th Anniversary Sale celebration, retailer GOG.com and various developers are teaming up to offer a rotating selection of giveaways, free for a limited time.

TVGHF Goodie Pack 2022 presented by non-profit organization The Video Game History Foundation is a special bundle of digital goodies meant to promote classic video games (all deep-discounted as part of the GOG sale) by sharing digital downloadables connected to them.

The following games have selected tie-in materials included in the bundle:

Another World, a vintage science fiction action platformer where a physicist dodges monsters and environmental hazards on an alien planet:

Development Diary PDF artbook

Behind the Scenes making of Video

HD Wallpapers

Pizza Tycoon, a business management strategy where you build up a food franchise empire:

Recipe Book PDF mini-cookbook containing 15 real life recipes for pizza dough and assorted modern and regional Italian pizzas to try out (metric measurements, as apparently this was originally a UK game)

Enclave, a medieval fantasy combat adventure:

OST Music Medley 2022 soundtrack album, mixed specially for GOG

To claim the freebies, simply Add to Cart from the dedicated promo page in the GOG catalogue (requires account signup with valid email but no payment info) and you'll be able to download everything directly from the website via your account library (no app installation required).

Offered DRM-free through the afternoon of Sunday October 9th until 10 PM UTC (around 2 PM Pacific Time), available directly at the retailer.

[8wisewebsite]

Technology to Clean Marine Plastic Pollution

It was Sir David Attenborough’s TV programmes that first alerted most of us to the problem – marine plastic pollution.

Scientists estimate that perhaps 8m tonnes of plastic waste enters the ocean each year, discharged by rivers or shed from ships. Plenty stays close to shore. Some, though, is carried by currents to mid-ocean gyres.

The biggest of these is located halfway between California and Hawaii—and so littered with flotsam that it has been nicknamed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

A study found that it contains between 45,000 and 129,000 tonnes of plastic debris spread over an area roughly the size of Alaska.

The idea of sweeping it all up might sound fanciful. To Boyan Slat it seemed merely ambitious. What if, he wondered in 2012 (then aged 18), you could build a massive bow-shaped floating barrier, anchor it to the seabed and let currents shuffle the litter into the scoop? Despite his youthful age and madcap scheme, Mr Slat set up the Ocean Cleanup to put it into practice.

In 2018, €20m ($23m) and several prototypes later, the device set sail from San Francisco on September 8th, escorted by a Coast Guard vessel, a shipload of camera crews and a flotilla of curious boaters.

Mr Slat wants to deploy another 60 booms, measuring 1km or more. Corporate sponsors will foot the bill of €5m apiece for construction and three years’ operation, Mr Slat hopes. He already enjoys the backing of deep-pocketed endowments and of tycoons like Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce, and Peter Thiel, a noted investor.

To clean an area of this size, a strategic and energy-efficient solution is required. The system is comprised of a long U-shaped barrier that guides the plastic into a retention zone at its far end

The floating systems are designed to capture plastics ranging from small pieces, just millimetres in size, up to large debris, including massive, discarded fishing nets (ghost nets), which can be tens of meters wide.

Modelling predicts they need around 10 full-size systems to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch alone.

BUT after fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.

Rivers are the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Research found that 1000 rivers are responsible for roughly 80% of riverine pollution.

The Interceptor is The Ocean Cleanup’s answer for river plastic waste. It is the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers. It is 100% solar-powered and extracts plastic autonomously.

Do you want to make an impact on the World’s sustainability? Does your business have a positive sustainability business model?

The World Sustainability Collective has been founded to help you and others like you increase your impact now and grow it in the future so that as a Collective you have an equal voice in the Global Sustainability Arena! Visit us at https://worldsustainabilitycollective.com/

[genuinereport]

Taurine Market Forecast to 2027 | Global Industry Report

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The report studies the factors that are likely to influence the growth of the Taurine market. The report includes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Taurine industry. The report offers an in-depth analysis of the market size, market share, and market growth and its estimation through the forecast years on the basis of the COVID-19 crisis. The report is attuned to the recent COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the global market. The report explores the present and future impact of the pandemic and provides an insight into the market scenario in the post-pandemic world.

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Hangzhou FST Pharmaceutical Co Ltd., Tycoon Company Limited, Jiangsu Yuanyang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd., Jiangyin Huachang Food Additive Co Ltd., Shayang Tianyi Medicine Industry Co Ltd., Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Fuchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd., Honjo Chemical, and Grand Pharma, among others.

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[ancientbrit]

Natter # 6     7/26/2020

I love books. I have a passion for them - always have. My parents were the catalyst really. My Dad would read to my sister and me when we went to bed; stories from a huge volume of The Brothers Grimm and Aesops Fables with fine, thin pages and wonderful, colored plates by Arthur Rackham, protected by sheets of parchment. You could lose yourself in the tales and those wonderful illustrations; we did and I wish we still had that book. We would go out for long walks in the countryside and always packed along a couple of books on birds, plants, and animals for identification purposes. My Mother would take us to the public library, a 213 bus ride away to Worcester Park and we would ride back home triumphant with tales about Mumfie the Elephant and others. Books were always welcomed as birthday and Christmas gifts amongst others and when a public library was set up in our village I was one of the very first to join and I took out a book entitled “Tropical Aquarium Fishes} by William T Innes I had that ook exclusively for over a year. The library was within walking distance along Anne Boleyns Walk so it suited me very well. At school when the class was made to stand and read aloud one by one around the room, when it reached my turn I could never find the place because I was always about three pages ahead. I couldn't stand the slow pace that reading out loud produced. I began to develop a taste for adventure books where the same characters were repeated in subsequent volumes, such as in Arthur Ransome's children's book series, starting with "Swallows and Amazons." I always thought the illustrations were sort of crude sketches but the stories were great. I bought a set for my kids but somehow they never seemed to appeal to them. During the war, American comics were really desirable and they were hard to get. A little girl who lived just around the corner had relations in the States who would send her most of the popular comics of the day - be worth a fortune now no doubt. We found out about this and soon we had developed a bartering system - English comics for American comics. One of the American comics characters was a boy who was always getting into adventures  & scrapes and getting out of them by building various things. What used to fascinate me about this was at the bottom of the pages were instructions on how to build the things that he had used. How to build a passenger rail car with lighted windows from an old shoebox, or a searchlight from a shaving soap container. That phrase "how to make...." has stayed with me for all my life and it still has the power to draw me in; I love to make things. Much more on this later. I became involved and interested in mechanical things and my Uncle Jim next door had a wealth of interesting gadgets which he used to shower on me. Old clocks, crystal sets, old firearms and on. I loved all of these and started taking them apart to see how they worked. Some I even returned to working condition. But eventually, prime movers and engines of all sorts started to take precedence and it peaked when our next-door neighbor on the left, at whose engineering company I later worked on Saturdays, took me and his daughter, Mary, to the Model Engineering Exhibition in London. I don't think Mary had any interest what so ever but I was in seventh heaven, looking at all the model steam locomotives, engines and everything mechanical - and they all worked, they weren't just pretty static models, they were actually miniature pieces of engineering and not long after this I started to subscribe to the magazine “Model Engineer” which I would read avidly from cover to cover, even the ads.This quite naturally led into yet another type of book and ended with my favorite author of all time - Neville Shute.

Mr Shute was a qualified engineer who was involved in the disastrous R-100 & R-101 airship designs between the wars at the same time as the Hindenburg was flying between Germany and New York. Airships turned out to be dead-end technology and the only thing remaining of it in England are the two massive hangers which used to house them. When I joined the RAF I visited this station and at that time they were the biggest single-storey buildings I had ever seen. Mr Shute continued in the aeronautics field by starting his own aircraft manufacturing company - Airspeed, which produced one twin-engined aircraft  - The Oxford. This was a conventional passenger aircraft and was quite successful, but it wasn't what he was looking for really and he started to write fiction. His early works did not involve engineering, but I guess that the old saw - write  what you know, finally enabled him to write winners, with four of his books having been made into winning films, all of which I have seen. In one period he flew his own aircraft to Australia, which became special to him with some of his best stories taking place there. But in my opinion, his best by far was his final story, completed and published not long before he died. It was serialized in the national press and a few months later the book appeared on the street, it was "Trustee from the Toolroom." This book had everything for me. It centered around a humble little guy, Keith, living in a suburb of London, whose mission in life was designing and building engineering miniatures and describing the building process in a model engineering magazine.His sister had married well to a wealthy naval officer and they had a little girl.

Just after the war, England was still rationed until about 1954 and the whole economy was geared towards earning dollars to pay off the huge dept owed to America for all the munitions and food they had sold to England when our backs were to the wall. One of the strictures placed on Brits who fancied traveling abroad at that time was that you couldn't take more than $500 out of the country. This naval officer and his wife wanted to emigrate to Canada in their yacht, leaving their little girl with Keith and his wife to be sent for when they arrived.They had a problem in they had converted his wife's jewelry into negotiable diamonds and wanted his brother in law to help him hide the diamonds in the yacht, which he did. Making this a bit shorter, the yacht foundered off an island in the Pacific and Keith considered it his job to get out there to try and recover the diamonds for the little girl. Not having the money, through contacts he had made writing for the magazine, he was able to scrounge a trip by air to Honolulu, from an airfield just along the road from where Jean & I lived. From Honolulu he picked up a lift from a weird guy who had sailed from the USA in a boat he had built himself. There is a lot more to this story, but after locating the diamonds he ends up landing in Seattle and driving down to Portland where he helps a timber tycoon with a problem he was having building a clock that Keith had designed. The whole story was extremely satisfying for me, touching so many points with which I was familiar and I must have read it at least a half dozen times. The films that were made from his books were:- "A town like Alice", "No Highway" (starred Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich), "On the beach" (Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner) and "The Pied Piper" (Monty Wooley). "On the beach" was a rather grim story about the aftermath of Global Nuclear War, which was a distinct possibility at that time. I have almost all of the books he wrote with the exception of a couple from very early days - still searching for those. Yet another writer of future aftermath stories was John Wyndham who wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken wakes and Chrysalids - all cracking good yarns which I happen to have as a book containing all three stories. This is another that I have read multiple times; I also have  Kindle, a present from my son, which I have used occasionally, but it is not the same as holding a physical book in my hands. Books are - special and I like the fact that I can go to one whenever I feel like it and take down an old friend and feel instantly at home. All you need is a comfortable chair and enough light to read by and you are satisfied. I also like the fact that there is no battery to go down! Your fearless leader, trying to maintain some sort of contact with you all. Stay safe and hopeful - it WILL all come right one day! Gordon

[southeastasianists]

Political malaise and self-serving leaders have left the indigenous Dayak people on shaky ground when it comes to land claims, writes James Chin.

On 7 January, Dayak “intellectuals” gathered in Pending, on the outskirts of Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state in Malaysia, to discuss the issue of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land, more commonly called native titles.

The meeting was hastily organised because Malaysia’s Federal Court overturned a lower court’s decision and ruled that ‘pulau galau’ (communal forest reserve) and ‘pemakai menoa’ (territorial domain) do not have the force of law. The ruling, in practice, meant most of the native title claims in Sarawak will not win their court challenge against the state for recognition of their NCR title.

What is NCR in Sarawak? NCR, culturally, is widely understood in Sarawak as land belonging to the indigenous peoples of where there is no title issued. Under the Adat (customary law), NCR land has three components; ‘temuda’, ‘pulau galau’ (PG) and ‘pemakai menoa’ (PM). ‘Termuda’ refers to cultivated or farmed areas. PM and PG lie beyond the ‘Termuda’.

PG is usually understood to be a reserved area kept for communal use while PM is an area used for hunting and foraging by the Dayak community, and hence is usually much larger than the PG and Termuda.

The political issue and simple solution NCR politics arises because of the way the Land Code (1958) was enacted. It only recognised NCR ‘as lands which were classified as Native Customary Land’ (NCL)  prior to 1 January 1958 and/or land gazetted as such by the minister concerned since 1958. The only other authority who can issue NCL is the Superintendent of Lands and Surveys Department, who in the Sarawak set-up, will not issue NCL without the consent of the Minister for Lands.

In other words, if the NCL was not created before 1958 and after that by the Minister, NCR lands are under dispute. The rule-of-thumb used by the state is that if the land is not NCR land, then the land belongs to the state, which can do whatever it wants to with it.

The issue would be less politically explosive if there was no pressure on the land. The reality is that there is tremendous pressure.

First, timber companies want to access the NCR-disputed land because it contains valuable timber, often worth millions of dollars.

Second, many oil palm plantations want access to NCR land. In almost all these cases, only politically-connected individuals and companies can get the state to issue them rights to these NCR-disputed land (in legal terms a ‘provisional  lease’) that in turn allows them to harvest the timber or establish a plantation. What makes the situation worse is that the NCR claimants are not informed about the lease and only find out when the lease holders show up with their machines.

The timber and plantation barons, often the same person, are quite happy to pay millions to get the timber extraction license and the lease. In the process, a small number of elite Melanau-Malay politicians and Chinese timber barons have grown fabulously wealthy. The indigenous landowners get next to nothing.

In the past decade there have been hundreds of lawsuits filed by NCR claimants against the state for issuing these leases. All these cases have a very simple dimension; does the state recognise the native understanding of the term PM and PG? In other words, does the modern Western-based legal system recognise that native people have rights and interests to their land that come from traditional laws and customs that existed prior to European colonialism? The Mabo case in Australia ruled that the native land system is no less sophisticated than modern Western law relating to land, and explicitly recognised native title.

In Sarawak, the solution is simple and obvious. All the state has to is to amend the Land Code (1958) to explicitly recognise the concept of PM and PG. Yet for the past half-century, despite numerous lawsuits, the Sarawak Government has refused to do so.

This is surprising as the native groups in Sarawak are strong supporters of the ruling coalition, Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN). In fact, the Dayak indigenous population counts for about 40 per cent of Sarawak’s population and are the majority in one-third of the seats in the State Assembly. More than 80 per cent of the Dayak-majority seats have gone to BN in every election since the 1980s.

Yet no attempts were made to amend the Land Code to resolve this issue. Instead Dayak politicians, Dayak academics and Dayak “intellectuals” have held countless workshops, seminars and symposiums to pontificate about the various sub-sections of the Land Code, the meaning of PM and PG and the various legal ways via the court system to ‘fix’ the problem. They are blind to the simple truth that a straightforward amendment to the Land Code will ‘solve’ the problem immediately.

If truth be told, after years of musing over the Land Code and various law suits, the same Dayak political leaders, Dayak academics and Dayak intellectuals are now more confused than ever. Their endless discussions across the years over definitions and petty issues have baffled them, and they cannot see the forest for the trees.

This simple political remedy is now complicated by petty jealously and grandstanding by Dayak political leaders on both sides of the political divide. Every Dayak political leader in Sarawak claims to be a champion on the NCR issue, including those holding senior positions in the Sarawak government.

Dayak political malaise Dayak political leaders in Sarawak know the simple legal solution but are politically incapable of getting the Sarawak government to amend the Land Code. This is despite the fact that the BN coalition government has always secured the majority of Dayak electoral support and a Dayak has always held the number two position in the ruling Pesaka Bumiputera Party (PBB) party, leading to the holder becoming the Deputy Chief Minister in the Sarawak Government.

The only conclusions one can draw about the inability of the community to resolve the NCR issue are that they are held back by ‘divide and rule’ or self-serving Dayak political leaders.

Divide and rule sees Dayak politics manipulated by the top Melanau-Malay leadership with the support of the elite in the Chinese community. Both these groups want the Dayaks to remain politically weak so that they are incapable of mounting a challenge to their existing power equation.

The power equation consists of Melanau-Malay leaders in PBB and Chinese timber/business tycoons who are mostly represented by Sarawak United Peoples’ Party. Using a mixture of political coercion and money politics, they have ensured that the Dayak community is politically divided among all the four parties in the Sarawak BN. The Dayak polity is not allowed to unite under a single political party.

Land issues lie at the heart of Dayak politics, as they are, like all indigenous groups elsewhere, the cultural soul of the community. By making it hard for the Dayaks to get recognition of their NCR land, the state is directly telling the indigenous peoples of Sarawak that their culture and traditional customary laws are inferior to that of  Malays and Muslims.

Then there’s self-serving Dayak political leaders. Since the 1970s, Dayak political leaders have mostly paid lip-service to the uplifting of the Dayak community’s plight. The best example to illustrate this is the 70 per cent plus Iban constituency of Layar. For more than four decades, the constituency was represented by the same person who was also the deputy chief minister of Sarawak.

Yet, after four decades many parts of the constituency lack basic infrastructure such as clean water, electricity and proper roads. What was even more incredible was when the deputy chief minister decided to retire in 2015, the seat was passed on to his son, who went on to win the seat without much difficulty.

Future with no titles in sight The overall issue of native titles is, of course, nothing new. Many parts of the South Pacific suffer from this problem, often leading to tribal fights. Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are prime examples.

In PNG, the government does not even dare to map the entire country in detail as many groups enjoy exploiting ambiguous boundaries to protect their “land”. Even the use of GPS to precisely map  the areas under dispute cannot be undertaken. Like Sarawak, for political reasons the issue of native titles are purposely left legally ambiguous and no land titles can be issued.

The sad truth when it comes to native titles issue in Sarawak is that Dayak community has been completely led down the garden path by post-independent elected Dayak leaders. Unless the Dayak community accepts this unpalatable truth, the NCR issue in Sarawak will remain ‘unresolved’ for the foreseeable future.

In the meantime, expect more forums, symposiums and seminars as the victims confuse themselves with the minute-details of the Land Code while completely missing the point that native titles are essentially a political issue in Sarawak.

The policy lesson from the Sarawak case is obvious — like most pressing issues affecting indigenous peoples in Asia, they are prone to political manipulation by the existing elite.

Professor James Chin is Director, Asia Institute, University of Tasmania.

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DREADFUL REGIME A Draft of Argumentative Essay about the Duterte Administration

Throughout his five year dreadful leadership, President Rodrigo R. Duterte had browned several programs that merely helped the poverty stricken Filipinos to partially arise from the poverty.  His policies on the public safety and infrastructure was the major pinnacles of his six year regime. This notions could be reflected on his high approval service ratings beyond PulesAsia’s 2021survey. Although some of his politically inclined programs became a success, there are also a lot of issues and anomalies that engulfs to his administration, such as the Extra-Judicial Killings (EJK), human rights violations, and suppression of the press freedom, corruption and his incompetent leadership during pandemic. This actions truly prove that Mr. Duterte had imposed a six-year hatred governance.

Pres. Duterte started his presidential term with the enactment of his War on Illegal Drugs and Opan Tokhang in order to fulfill his promise that he will end the drug problem in the country within three to six months. According to the Pulse Asia Survey, as of January 2020. Within two out of three Filipinos believed that they are safer because of the way of thinking of that the number of drug users in their area has been reduced since Duterte came to power in 2016.

Apart from his war against the illegal drugs, Pres. Duterte also prioritize the enactment of the BUILD. BUILD. BUILD program of the Department of Public Works and Highways. The said program aims to establish such public infrastructures that will help the Filipinos to had better way of living and create new job opportunities. As of 2019 there are 9,845 kilometres of roads, 2,709 bridges, 4,536 flood control projects, 82 evacuation centers, and 71,803 classrooms under the BUILD. BUILD. BUILD program were completed. On the other hand, some of the said completed projects were just a continuation of Aquino Administration’s infrastructure projects.

Alongside with those programs and policies, Pres. Duterte also impose his power upon the healthcare system of the country. He signed the total Smoking Ban on the public places throughout the country that led into decrease in smoking related deaths and illness. Duterte also impose the firecracker ban that caused a massive decline on firecracker related injuries every New Year. The Universal Health Care which was aimed to help the struggling Filipinos who were living under the poverty line to achieve such medical assistance was also passed during his administration. The TRAIN Law that pointed out to collect higher tax revenue in order to lessen the income taxes of the 99% of the tax payers was also enacted during his term.  

The 16th president of the Philippines went also against the basic utility provider like water and telecommunication companies. He sought to scrap the long-term contracts, secured in 1997, of the two major water concessionaires serving 16 million customers in the Metro Manila and nearby provinces. The Maynilad Water of the First Pacific Ltd group of Antoni Salim of Indonesia and Filipino CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan, and the Manila Water Co. of the old-time Ayala family and the Singapore government unless they accepted new contract with better terms to the Philippine government.  Stung, the two water companies gave up P11 billion in arbitral awards refund from unapproved rate increases.  Ayala’s Manila Water sold 25% of its equity to ports tycoon Enrique Razon for P10 billion with the latter eventually taking control of the utility.

Pres. Duterte’s leadership was also establish a savvy fiscal management. Under Duterte Regime, the Philippines achieved its highest ever credit rating BBB+ in April 2020, despite COVID-19.  In June 2020, Japan Credit Rating Agency even upgraded the Philippine rating to A-, with a stable outlook.

On the contrary of the President’s note of partial success. There are a masses of issues, anomalies and oddity under his administration. Although much more Filipinos conceives that they become safer during the Duterte Administration due to his war against illegal drugs, the illegal drug addiction rate on the Philippines were still on the moderate level. Alongside with that, based on the latest statistics that released by the Numbeo, the crime and drug index rate of the Philippines is 43.64 percent which can be considered as arduous. This percentage level was also higher than the Singapore’s 12 percent drug rate.

Aside from the foisting of the false hope on a safer country, Duterte’s War on Drugs and Oplan Tokhang resides a record high human rights violation and exploitation of the Extra-Judicial Killings (EJK). According to International Criminal Court (ICC), the Duterte Administration and the Philippine National Police (PNP) had killed about 27,000 illegal drug dependent without any necessary investigations.  Because of their bloody drug war and EJKs, the ICC finds evidence of crimes against humanity in the Philippines.

Pres. Duterte also said that aside from the eradication of the illegal drugs he will also impose a cleaner government by the elimination of the corruption under his administration within three to six months. But in the reality the corruption and bribery under his leadership arise by about 67% in 2020 according to the ICC. The 15 Billion Peso corruption scandal on Philippine Health Insurance Corporation was the great exemplar of Duterte’s incompetency on the prevention of corruption within the government. This corruption scandal also showed his unmanly competency on imposing the accountabilities beyond those persons that was involved in the crime.

The TRAIN Law that he was enacted was also created a massive impact on the decisive poverty within the Philippines. Due to the higher Value Added Tax (VAT) into staple products and the inflation rate in the country arise for about 6.7% on October 2018. The said law mainly benefits the government workers because of their reduced income tax, but the masses who was striving through poverty was mainly affected by the decisive side of the law.

Duterte’s impunity among the PNP caused a higher number of cases of police brutality and their abuse of power. Pres. Duterte assured the Philippine Police Squad a protection in every legal and illegal deeds that they will do as long as it was for their own safety against those drug dependents. Duterte also guaranteed their salary hike in order to them to have a better service to the nation. The Gregorio’s death with the hands of Nuezca, a policeman was the outmost example of the negative effect of Duterte’s impunity on the PNP.    

Red-tagging and his failure to contain the terrorist insurgency was also one of the highlights of Duterte’s negligence on ensuring a much safer country. As he signed the Anti-Terror Law (ATL), the basic human right of a person that deals with their writ of habeas corpus had already violated. Any person who expresses their opinion and practice activism can fall behind the bars and identified as communist supporters/Red-Tagged without any necessary investigation because of the ATL. Although the ATL had been implemented, the surging number of cases of rebellion in the country is still in place.

Aside from the excessive practice of Red-Tagging under his administration. Duterte had also impose the suppression on the press freedom as he support the shutdown and non-renewal of the ABS-CBN’s franchise and Maria Ressa’s conviction. A subdued press freedom that could cause political chaos and widespread of fake news that can cause such disarray within the nation.

Even though that he was able to decrease the influence of the western imperialism within the country, the rise of Chinese affection had greatly modify the nation. The Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) of the rich Chinese businessman had altered the fate of job of the most of the Filipinos as they hire their fellow countrymen. Aside from that according to the Bureau of Immigration (BIM) there are about 50,000 illegal Chinese workers and citizens in the country with an expired visa. The dispute between the Philippines and China had been resolved in a contrary that the foreign claimants will get most of the West Philippine Sea’s Island.

One of the latest outmost failure under Pres. Duterte’s regime was the government’s incompetence on addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic. On January 2020, the Association of Medical Doctors in the Philippines had already warned the president and the health department to impose a total travel ban from the persons that will come from China. Instead of enacting a strict travel restrictions, the president had chosen to do not impose any restrictions and travel bans in order to protect the strong bond of relationship between the Philippines and the China. During the spike of the COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, the Duterte Administration was not able to for see any tangible and feasible plan of action on addressing the pandemic. The mass testing among the frontliners were not also fulfilled by the government and even the continues support on the basic needs of the Filipinos.

As Pres. Duterte had entered into his last year at the office, the nation awaits to the continuation of the good deeds imposed his administration. Aside from that the Filipinos also demands for his accountability among those issues and anomalies under his dreadful regime. In order to avoid the dismissive notions that had imposed by this dreadful administration, the Filipinos should had a more logical political enigma with the upcoming 2022 Presidential Election. They must elect a more sensible person that will resuscitate the dying economy and stop increasing poverty intrusion rate of the Philippines.

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JONARD JAMES SARIA 2021 (c)

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Pacific Tycoon Scam - A major shipping container scam that everyone needs to know about

Shipping Containers seem to be a huge investment option now owing to the fact that many have seen this a good opportunity after being duped by binary options, crypto investing and forex scams. But what if we told you that shipping container scams are also a reality. And the Pacific Tycoon scam is nothing but a frontrunner in these kinds of container scams. This is true towards every sense and clearly identifies the fact that you need to invest very wisely in proper firms so that you don’t end up being a victim of some scam. 

Pacific Tycoon is a Ponzi Scheme situated in Saigon, Vietnam. It does have an office in HK to meet clients, which are at a different address from the virtual address posted on the website. The staffs choose up clients at the airport or hotel and take them to that office. They always ask clients the exact date and time these are coming to visit Hong Kong, to be able to guide flight tickets to get there from Vietnam and fill up the bare office. You can also get two part-time local Hong Kong staffs. Hong Kong staffs are innocent, staffs from Vietnam have to explain to them that they come from the Shanghai office, and Hong Kong staffs believe that. There’s probably no one in Shanghai.

Pacific Tycoon does have Hong Kong telephone numbers (land and mobile) beginning with 852, which are just SIMs they purchased in HK and bring the phone to Vietnam. Salespeople call clients using voice-over-IP (Skype) to save costs also to hide where they are contacting.

As a rule, client leads from the USA, Portugal, China (including Hong Kong), Vietnam, and a few other countries are immediately flourished the checklist. Regarding USA and France, the staff is scared off because there were official warnings against Pacific Tycoon regarding China and Vietnam, he is smart enough not to create any noise from your market, so that the police don't pay attention. If the customer has British nationality, but living and working in Hong Kong, he could be taken off the list, because the staff doesn't want him to go to the Hong Kong office arbitrarily and finds no person. In addition, clients are told never to send and receive funds from a US bank account, regardless of his or her nationality.

A powerful sales hype is to tell the audience to contact client referrals i. e. those who already used Pacific Tycoon, for thoughts. In total, there are merely 10 customer references, who are victims themselves. These people are kept happy, receive their results from this structure, and perhaps they are paid a flat cost each time someone wants to buy after emailing/talking to them.

Leaving all things aside, what you can do if you have been a victim of the Pacific Tycoon Scam is to contact a good fund recovery group like First Option Recovery. They have the best set of attorneys, legal advisors and private investigators spread across 22+ countries and they are always there to guide you into helping you recover your money. At max, within 4 months, your money will be back in your bank account and you can breathe a sigh of relief.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that Hong Kong was no longer sufficiently autonomous from mainland China, following Beijing’s announcement that it plans to implement a national security law for the territory.

The proposed law, which sparked a fresh round of protests in the city, targets secession, sedition, terrorism and foreign interference in the enclave. It bypasses Hong Kong’s own legislature, which has not met its obligation to pass such a law since the territory was retroceded to China in 1997 after 156 years as a British colony.

“No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground,” Pompeo said in a statement. “The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong as they struggle against the [Chinese Communist Party’s] increasing denial of the autonomy that they were promised.”

The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act—passed in November 2019 following months of protests in Hong Kong—requires the State Department to complete an annual assessment to determine if Hong Kong remains sufficiently different from China. That assessment is needed to justify Hong Kong’s unique treatment under U.S. law.

Under the terms of the Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, Hong Kong’s special status means Washington treats it as distinct from the rest of China when it comes to matters like trade and economic relations. Although the U.S. hasn’t yet set out what actions it will take following Pompeo’s announcement, the options include imposing immigration restrictions, export controls, and tariffs as well as sanctions on officials and individuals deemed to be aiding China in its encroachment on Hong Kong’s freedoms.

Eric Lai, the vice convener of the pro-democracy group the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), said Pompeo’s announcement meant the international community no longer believed Hong Kong’s rule of law and judicial independence were reliable safeguards against Beijing. He told TIME that the Chinese government would “pay a substantive price” for its actions in Hong Kong.

“The Hong Kong government and the mainland government have destroyed ‘one country, two systems,'” pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-Wai told TIME, referring to the political formula under which Hong Kong was promised significant freedoms under Chinese sovereignty. “It is a sad result…It won’t do any good to Hong Kong people, but it reflects the situation that Hong Kong is no longer a place that can honor ‘one country, two systems.'”

Speaking to the media via a teleconference, David R. Stilwell, assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said that the U.S. will do its best “to ensure the people of Hong Kong are not adversely affected to the best we can.”

During a press conference on Thursday morning, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong said that he didn’t think ordinary citizens would be impacted. “But I think for the ones serving the interests of Beijing, acting as the loyalists of the communist regime, of course they might face some of the results that might be negative for themselves. That’s the damage that they’ve done and the result that they need to bear.”

Jimmy Lai, a 71-year-old media tycoon who is among a group of prominent pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong facing charges for their roles in the mass demonstrations that paralyzed much of the city throughout the second half of 2019, thanked Pompeo on Twitter. “The world will be a much better and peaceful place when #CCPChina is contained and #Hongkong is free,” he said.

Thank you @SecPompeo for standing with us #HKers. The world will be a much better and peaceful place when #CCPChina is contained and #Hongkong is free. https://t.co/qccuiFw5SX

— Jimmy Lai (@JimmyLaiApple) May 27, 2020

China has repeatedly warned the U.S. not to interfere in what it deems its internal affairs, and experts say that it’s unlikely that any actions the U.S. takes will change Beijing’s plans to implement the national security law.

“The Communist Party has been moving steadily down the road toward tightening control over Hong Kong for years now, and Xi Jinping is determined to project an image of himself as a strongman leader who can stand up to pressure from foreign powers,” Jeffrey Wasserstrom, historian and author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, told TIME.

“I don’t think that China will change its mind,” said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a political-science professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. “There is not much room for changing the gist of the law.”

Pro-democracy politician Eddie Chu told TIME that the revocation of Hong Kong’s autonomous status alone won’t be enough to spur Beijing into action. “I think if the U.S. really wants to push back [against] China on this issue of the national security law, it needs to include Taiwan in the game,” he says. “The only thing that can frighten [Chinese President Xi Jinping] is to warn about reestablishing diplomatic relationship with [Taiwan].”

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Malacañang assures Ayala, Pangilinan of due process

#PHnews: Malacañang assures Ayala, Pangilinan of due process

MANILA -- Malacañang assured Fernando Zobel de Ayala and Manuel V. Pangilinan of due process in case warrants of arrest are issued against them.

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador made this clarification after President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday threatened to arrest and indefinitely detain the owners of Metro Manila’s water concessionaires.

Pangilinan’s Metro Pacific Investments Corp. owns a controlling stake in Maynilad while Manila Water is a subsidiary of the Ayala Corp.

“Ang ibig sabihin, idedemanda ang mga dapat idemanda (This means that government will file cases against them),” Panelo said in an interview over dzIQ on Sunday. “That is on the assumption that there are warrants of arrest.”

Panelo, also Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, said once cases are filed against the water firm owners, it would still be up to the judges in court to issue warrants of arrest against them.

“Lahat ‘yan padadaanin sa proseso (All of it will be accorded due process),” he added.

In a speech in Davao City on Friday, Duterte warned the water concessionaire owners against filing temporary restraining orders (TROs) against the government or he just might arrest them “one night”.

“One night, hulihin ko silang lahat. At diyan lang kayo. Kailan ko kayo palabasin? Hanggang gusto ko. Si Marcos, 27 years. Gawain ko akin, 30 years (One night, I’ll just arrest them all. And you’ll stay behind bars until I say so. Marcos had 27 years, I’ll make mine 30),” Duterte said.

Marcos was President for 20 years, ruling for 14 years as a dictator after imposing martial law in 1972.

Panelo said Duterte and Marcos were alike in such a way that they both shared a strong sense of “political will.”

Currently, the government is attempting to strike a new deal with the two water concessionaires after discovering that the original contracts contained “onerous” provisions.

Ayala and Pangilinan have both expressed willingness to cooperate with the government.

Duterte's verbal attacks against the Ayala and Pangilinan firms began when the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Singapore, in its separate rulings, compelled the Philippine government to pay PHP3.4 billion and PHP7.39 billion to Maynilad and Manila Water, respectively, for supposed losses and damages suffered by the two water firms.

On January 7, the President gave Manila Water and Maynilad the option to either accept the new water contracts or face cancellation of their present deals.

Since finding out that the contracts were “disadvantageous” to the government and the public, Duterte said he would not hesitate to have the tycoons detained over syndicated estafa or plunder raps and floated the possibility of asking the military to take over water operations.

LRT deal

Meanwhile, Panelo also assured that all contracts with private firms that would be found detrimental to the Filipino people will be rectified.

Duterte earlier sought the review of the state-run Light Rail Transit Authority’s existing contract with the Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) after he learned Ayala and Pangilinan also have key roles in its operations.

“Lahat ng anomalya titignan ng goberyno (All anomalies will be reviewed by government),” Panelo said.

The LRMC is a consortium of the Ayala-led AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp., Pangilinan-owned Metro Pacific Investments Corp., and Macquarie Infrastructure Holdings (Philippines) Pte. Ltd.

In April 2019, there was also a directive from the President to the Office of the Solicitor General, the Department of Justice, and other state legal departments to look into all of the government contracts with private companies and other countries.

Duterte's order in April last year was meant to remove all "onerous" provisions of the contracts that would "put the Filipino people at (a) disadvantage or are in violation of the Constitution."(PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Malacañang assures Ayala, Pangilinan of due process." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1091302 (accessed January 19, 2020 at 10:29PM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Malacañang assures Ayala, Pangilinan of due process." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1091302 (archived).

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia De Rossi divorce rumors: Why is Ellen selling beach house for $23M?

Is our favorite TV show host Ellen DeGeneres divorcing her wife, Portia De Rossi? Will they end their marriage after 11 years? Also, they have sold their oceanfront retreat home for $23 million. Read more to find out!

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have sold their beach house

#EllenDeGeneres and #PortiadeRossi list Oceanfront Contemporary… could be yours for $24 million! https://t.co/IMsKfRLgCc

— Carter Boehm (@carterboehmfilm) July 1, 2019

The multimillion beach house of Ellen DeGeneres is located in Carpinteria, California. Recently, Ellen and Portia got rid of their paradise home for $23 million. Moreover, their closing price of the beach house was $24 million.

Back in 2017, they bought the home for $18.6 million. This means they have earned a profit of $4.4 million from the recent sale. Ellen is known for house flipping, and she has bought around twelve houses in 20 years. Also, it seems like the couple has been struck with great luck after selling their beach house.

Truth About #EllenDeGeneres, #PortiaDeRossi’s ‘Crumbling’ Marriagehttps://t.co/8yVqtUmk87 pic.twitter.com/tKlsJzF4Ta

— Celeborama Celebrity News 2019 (@Celeborama2019) March 16, 2019

However, the divorce rumors plaguing Finding Dory voice actress Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres aren’t going anywhere soon. Since the past few years, fans have been hearing about their breakup rumors. We still haven’t heard anything back from both the ends about the split rumors.

But there are some rumors that they will file for divorce soon. As per the recent reports, Portia wants to focus on her acting career, and DeGeneres is not happy with this decision.

#EllenDeGeneres, #PortiaDeRossi Selling $24M #BeachHouse Amid Divorce Rumors #RealEstateNews #realestate https://t.co/bVthAgo9UB

— Todd Dwyer (@ToddDwyer) July 7, 2019

Who bought the beach house?

The makeup tycoon Jamie Kern Lima and husband Paulo Lima agreed to buy the lush beach house at $23 million in cash. Paulo and Jamie are the founders of IT Cosmetics in 2008. In 2016, the beauty brand was purchased by L’Oreal for $1.2 billion.

However, Jamie is still the CEO of the cosmetics brand. Besides, she has also appeared in Baywatch and Big Brother season 1 in the 1990s. Moreover, she is also a Columbia MBA holder.

Details about the beach house

Source: Stuff.co.nz

The contemporary beach house is located in the residential lane of Carpinteria. It is nearly 7,000 sq. Ft. long which features honey-hued hardwood floors, crisp white walls as well as a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. Plus, there is a courtyard, two guest bedroom suites on the main floor, stylish kitchen as well as an outdoor fireplace.

The second floor contains a master suite which includes a fireplace, terrace, and a bedroom. Besides, it also has one more outdoor fireplace, private tennis as well as a rubber-floored gym.

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Taurine Market lucrative opportunities by 2027 examined in new market research report

Taurine also known as 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid is an amino acid present in most of the mammalian tissues and cells having high concentrations in tissues. Taurine is an organic compound having properties like antioxidant, detoxifier, bile acids and membrane stabilizer. Taurine is named after bull/ ox as it was isolated from ox bile first. Taurine is useful in cardiovascular function, development of skeletal muscle, cranial nervous system and retina. Taurine is derived from amino acid with thiol group known as cysteine. Taurine is obtained naturally from meat and fish. Daily intake of taurine is restricted to 500-2000mg to avoid the complications such as rise in blood pressure to strokes and seizures to heart disease. Taurine have different applications in industries like cosmetic industry, healthcare industry and food industry

Market Segmentation:

Taurine market is segmented on the basis of application in different industries such as food industry, cosmetic industry etc. Taurine is mainly used in energy drinks like Red Bull which in turn supports neurological development and helps regulation of water and mineral levels in the body. Taurine combined with caffeine is helpful in improving mental performance. In cosmetic industry taurine can be used in products like shampoo and skin care products for anti-aging and reduce fine lines, wrinkles etc. Taurine can be used in toothpaste and mouthwash to give consumers an energy boost. Taurine also be used as supplement in bodybuilding as it increases alertness, strengthens heart, reduces blood pressure and helps prevent dehydration.

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Taurine market is further segmented on the basis of regions as North America, Middle East and Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific Excluding Japan and Japan.

Market Regional Outlook:

On the basis of regions, the Taurine market has been segmented into North America, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific region and Japan. China is a leading manufacturer of taurine with more than 40 manufacturers in the country contributing to the maximum production of taurine globally. Countries like China, India and Brazil etc. are creating more opportunities for the Taurine market due to fast growing chemical industries.

Market Drivers and Trends:

The trends towards energy drinks is increasing globally which is driving global energy drinks market. Taurine is used in energy drinks to boost the physical activity, body building etc. Consumption of Energy drinks such as Red Bull which contains taurine is increasing trend in many developed as well as developing countries which is driving taurine market. Cosmetic industry is also rising due to awareness of healthy skin, taurine is used in some of the cosmetic products which helps in energizing the skin and reduce wrinkles and fine lines. As a result of health awareness trend of body building and fitness is also increasing, which is also driving the taurine market as it is also used in different health supplements. Use of taurine in in health benefits such as cardiovascular health, hydration etc. helps in driving the taurine global market due to demand of taurine in different food as well as pharmaceutical market.

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Taurine Market Key Players:

Some of the key players in the Taurine market include Qianjiang Yongan Pharmaceutical Co. ltd., The Honjo Chemical Corporation, Fuchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Jiangyin Huachang Food Additive Co. Ltd., Jiangsu Yuanyang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Qingdao Aufeng International Company Limited, Hangzhou FST pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shandong Fangming Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Shayang Tianyi Medicine Industry Co. Ltd., Tycoon (China) Company Limited etc. are among these.

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Trade gloom, rising oil, Boeing 737 MAX woes to cloud aviation summit

SEOUL (Reuters) – Global airlines are assembly under a storm sample of trade tensions, rising oil prices & a two-month-old grounding of the Boeing Co 737 MAX jetliner – threatening to put a halt to five years of strong profits in the cut-throat air travel industry.

The angle of attack sensor, at bottom center, is seen on a 737 Max aircraft at the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson

The sector’s bosses converge on Seoul for a summit this weekend, yet what might have been a celebration of growth in one of the world’s most vibrant regions now risks being thrown off course by a crippling U.S.-China trade spat & growing environmental pressures spreading from Europe.

“The final six months have been pretty tough for airlines,” the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said ahead of the annual assembly of the body, which groups 290 airlines representing over 80% of air travel.

“Rising costs, trade wars & other uncertainties are likely to have an impact on the bottom line,” IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac added.

The June 1-3 summit is a chance to examine passenger & cargo trends: key barometers of consumer confidence & trade amid a faltering global economy.

IATA’s most recent projection for $35.5 billion in industry profits this year now looks unsustainable due to the falling cargo market & weaker passenger growth, & de Juniac has given a strong steer that the group would trim the forecast at the upcoming Seoul meeting.

The cargo slump, with volumes down 3.7% in April including a 7.4% fall in the Asia-Pacific, is a concern for huge freight carriers like Cathay Pacific & the IATA summit host Korean Air Lines.

“We have really since the end of final year seen fairly a deterioration of cross-border trade following the earlier round of tariff increases,” IATA Chief Economist Brian Pearce said.

The assembly of some 200 CEOs is the largest gathering since the industry was plunged into crisis over the grounding of the 737 MAX in March following two crashes. IATA members have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the MAX & are anxious to contain any public or regulatory backlash.

Aviation leaders maintain flying remains remarkably safe relative to other forms of transport.

But the decision by China, the European Union & others to ground the MAX before the United States opened an strange split in the regulatory system, worrying airlines & planemakers.

737 MAX CUSTOMER TALKS

IATA, which is taking an increasingly central role in the crisis by hosting talks of MAX customers, believes the aircraft could return to service in August. But that is too late to prevent meaningful disruption to summer schedules.

Pressure on Boeing grew ahead of the IATA assembly as the China Air Transport Association estimated losses to Chinese airlines of some 4 billion yuan ($579 million).

IATA began in 1945 as a quasi-regulator & price-setter. It is now mainly a lobbying group yet retains a special role as a clearing house for financial transactions & usual standards.

Its perennial list of concerns includes high airport charges & what IATA calls “scandalous” air traffic delays in Europe.

But it is in addition wrestling with a rapid surge in anti-aviation sentiment in parts of Europe & calls in the Netherlands & elsewhere for new taxes to curb airliner emissions.

The aviation industry says it has plans to contribute to climate efforts through a carbon-offset scheme called CORSIA, yet critics say the initiative is too timid.

Local airlines seem to encapsulate this year’s subdued tone.

Korean Air is mourning the death of long-time chairman Cho Yang-ho from a chronic illness in April, weeks after shareholders ousted the tycoon from the board of the country’s largest airline.

The carrier, now led by his son Walter, has been receiving negative media attention since an incident dubbed “nut rage” went viral in 2014, when Cho’s eldest daughter Heather lost her mood over the way she was served nuts in first lesson & ordered the plane to return to its gate at a New York airport.

Rival Asiana’s top shareholder Kumho Industrial Co said final month it was selling its stake in the debt-laden carrier which has been slashing routes to improve profitability.

“It seems there is not much of a celebratory mood given the circumstances at our major carriers,” said Kim Ik-sang, a senior analyst at BNK Securities.

Reporting by Heekyong Yang & Tracy Rucinski in Seoul; additional reporting & writing by Jamie Freed & Tim Hepher; Editing by Himani Sarkar

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Not even Trump’s trade threats can slow this booming port in a tiny Canadian town

Prince Rupert is hardly the place one would expect to find an international gateway that’s weathering the Trump trade storm better than any other Pacific port in North America.

There’s just one bakery in the town of 12,000 people tucked away in a misty corner of western Canada. The local Walmart outlet is affectionately known as “Smallmart.” Shuttered storefronts on its main street are obstinate reminders of the collapse of its pulp and fishing industries more than a decade ago.

Yet this rainy outpost in British Columbia is the continent’s fastest-growing port for trans-Pacific trade — U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs be damned. In the first half of 2018, Prince Rupert’s container volumes surged by 19 per cent from the same period last year, more than any other major gateway for Asian trade in the U.S., Canada or Mexico.

“I would rather call these hiccups,” Maksim Mihic, head of Canada for Dubai-based marine operator DP World Ltd., says of the Trump trade war. His company paid $580 million (US$442 million) three years ago to buy Fairview, Prince Rupert’s upstart container terminal that’s been snatching market share from rival ports like Seattle-Tacoma and Los Angeles. “Whenever you have a trade barrier, there’s opportunity — the market will find a way.”

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Shippers have discovered Prince Rupert is often the quickest, most reliable, and cheapest route to get everything from Nike sneakers, Microsoft computers and John Deere tractor parts from Asian factories into the U.S. heartland. Empty containers on the return trip, in turn, create an opportunity for Canadian lumber and grain producers to expand exports to the world’s fastest-growing markets. The town’s proximity to Asia is a built-in advantage — up to 58 hours closer by sea than any other North American gateway — which for ships traversing the route can mean roughly one additional round-trip voyage a year.

In 2017, Prince Rupert’s port-wide volumes surged 28 per cent to a record 24 million tons. DP World’s $200 million expansion readied Fairview to accept the largest vessels at sea, which are increasingly favored by shippers seeking to load more containers to reduce costs. Within months, the facility welcomed the largest ship to ever dock at a Canadian port — the Himalayas which, if vertical, would tower over Canada’s tallest building.

“We expect it’ll be another record year,” says Shaun Stevenson, the port’s chief executive officer. “We represent that opportunity for industries to pivot and look at the Asia-Pacific region.”

A Canadian Coast Guard patrol vessel sits at the Port of Prince Rupert in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The port is the continent’s fastest-growing port for trans-Pacific trade.

At the 24-hour container terminal, massive cranes soaring as high as a 20-story building pluck steel boxes off a ship onto a line of trucks below. Nearby, rail cars wait on track laid directly on the dock by Canadian National Railway Co., whose 20,000-mile network connects the Pacific coast, the Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico. The ship-truck-rail transfer is so seamless — unhampered by the urban congestion plaguing larger rivals like Vancouver — that two trains of goods can already be on their way before a vessel is fully unloaded.

From Prince Rupert, it’s a 90-hour shot to Chicago mostly on a natural downgrade through Canada’s sparsely populated interior, meaning rail cars rattle their way to the distribution heartlands of America faster than over any other competing route. So precise and consistent is the path — Microsoft says it can track arrivals almost to the minute — that the technology giant at times has shipped Chinese imports bound for California via Chicago rather than through a California port. In the other direction, exports of containers stuffed with grains — a deviation from the traditional bulk method of pouring grains directly into ships at specialized terminals — are booming.

“The advantage is that you can deliver the container to every corner of the market in Asia,” says Mihic. Instead of committing to a shipload of pulses, an Indian buyer can order 20 tons of lentils for distribution to local mom-and-pop shops, he says. “That is the advantage for Canadian exporters — that’s the untouched territory for us. It’s much more flexible.”

Still, some aren’t convinced that Trump’s trade battles with China, Europe and Canada won’t hamper port shipments at some point. Port officials across the region “don’t want to think that tariffs will expand beyond those already in place and that even those tariffs will be unwound fairly soon,” says Jock O’Connell, a international trade consultant and adviser to Los Angeles-based Beacon Economics. “I’m not that optimistic.”

“Any port that serves as a major conduit for the supply chains that link the U.S. and China ought to be concerned about declines in the volume of trade — and the Port of Prince Rupert fits that description,” he said.

In Prince Rupert, signs of apprehension are hard to find.

In June — just days after Trump first threatened tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports after earlier extending steel tariffs to Canada and Mexico — DP World committed to boosting the terminal’s capacity by another third by 2022. Meanwhile, CN Rail is investing $340 million in 2018 to support that growth with more capacity.

Prince Rupert’s prominence has been a long time coming. Its extraordinary positioning was spotted in the early 1900s but its ambitions were cut short when its principal backer — Charles Melville Hays, the railroad tycoon who laid the groundwork for the critical link underpinning it today — died aboard the Titanic in 1912.

“The beginning of our town was a failed dream,” says Mayor Lee Brain, who’s getting calls daily from companies seeking to set up logistics, container-stuffing and warehouse businesses near the port. “It took a hundred years but now we are the Asia-Pacific gateway for intercontinental trade.”

The town’s future may now be tied to a metal container. While tariffs and commodity cycles can strike grain, coal and oil terminals, global container traffic is surging as shippers seek to cram more products into the giant, Lego-like cubes that make freight easier and cheaper to handle. In fact, Trump risk aside, containerization has likely been a bigger driver of globalization than free trade in the post-Second World War era, boosting trade by as much as 1,240 per cent, according to one study in the Journal of International Economics.

“‘Peak container’ isn’t on the horizon,” a McKinsey & Co. report declared last October, saying container traffic was likely to grow as long as the global economy keeps growing. “Indeed, the flexibility of the container trade makes it resilient: one product may go out of fashion but another will come along to fill the box.”

Meanwhile, signs of prosperity are cropping up in Prince Rupert. The town recently saw its first near-$1 million home — a 4,960-square-foot residence perched on a bluff overlooking one of the world’s deepest natural harbours, according to Nikki Morse, a local realtor. The mayor says so many residents are renovating their homes that the municipal landfill is running out of space. “There are more Audis, BMWs and Mercedes driving around than in probably 30 years,” says Stevenson, the port CEO.

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