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Sightseeing + Medical Check Up Tourism Targets Wealthy Chinese

MasPoster — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:27:36 +0000

As the economy of China grows, the number of wealthy Chinese who can afford overseas holidays and top medical care also grows.

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Japan, a close neighbor of China, is trying to capture part of these markets in one go. Nishinippon Shimbun (West Japan Newspaper) reports that the Japan Tourism Agency is pushing for travel tours that combine sightseeing and medical treatment to wealthy Chinese tourists. They are promoting tours that offer travelers its advanced medical technology in diagnostics and treatments, at the same time, its famous therapeutic elements such as Japanese food and Japanese hot springs.

For fiscal 2010, their focus is on the China. They are planning to gathering information such as awareness and expectations about medial tourism in Japan and invite the media and travel agencies to visit Japanese medical facilities. Already there are plans to make information such as list of medical institutions that accept foreigners available to related parties, and investigating the possibility of a “Medical Visa”.

Naruto Strait, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Some local governments have already started their own programs. Tokushima Prefecture, in the eastern part of the Shikoku Island in Japan, already started pilot tours in late March. The tours features sightseeing to the famous whirling tides in the Naruto Strait (Japanese: 鳴門海峡), low calorie delicacy from local ingredients and diabetes screening tests.

Naruto Whirlpools

According to the Planning Division of the Prefecture Tourism Board, participants highly appreciated the smooth tests, they wanted to increase the type of medical tests available, however, there was not enough information or guide books in Chinese.

Yukio Hatoyama (Japanese: 鳩山由紀夫)

This is part of the New Growth Strategy announced by the Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama (Japanese: 鳩山由紀夫) on 31 Dec 2010. The target is to see 25 million foreign tourists to Japan from year 2020; and grow 30 million foreign tourists in the future.

Japan Tourism Agency, established on 01 Oct 2008, is an extra-ministerial bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

Image Attribution:
NarutoStrait.jpg: Chris 73: CC-BY-SA-2.5
Naruto_Whirlpools_taken_4-21-2008.jpg : Hellbuny: CC-BY-SA-3.0

OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Chinese Version Is Now Available For Download

MasPoster — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:19:42 +0000

OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Chinese versions, both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese versions, are officially available for download from OpenOffice.org.
Download and use of OpenOffice.org is absolutely free of any charges.

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Download OpenOffice.org for Windows operating system :
Chinese (traditional) 正體中文版 3.2.0
Chinese (simplified) 简体中文版 3.2.0
English (US) 美国英文版 3.2.0
For other operating systems and languages, please go to the OpenOffice.org download page.

Updated (26Feb2010):
OpenOffice.org Portable 3.2.0 from PortableApps.com is also available for download now:
Chinese (traditional) 正體中文版 3.2.0
Chinese (simplified) 简体中文版 3.2.0
English (US) 美国英文版 3.2.0

The PortableApps.com project is a compilation of freeware, free and open source portable software for Windows. Software can be download onto our portable devices such as USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.

Possibly The World Oldest Woman Alive At 117-Year Old Living In Hong Kong

MasPoster — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:40:28 +0000

2010 Chinese New Year Day is on February 14, 2010. Chinese New Year Festival spans 15 days and the 7th day is “People’s birthday (人日)” , a birthday for all human. However, a lady in Hong Kong had already quietly celebrated her real 117th birthday a few days earlier on the 4th day of Chinese New Year.

Cheung Gwai Mui (張桂妹) was born in 1893, during the Qing Dynasty (清朝), China. She may well be the World’s Oldest Living Woman.

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Ms Cheung loves to eat and takes baths, but because of her old age, she is no longer able to chew, so she has to be fed nutrient liquid through a stomach pipe. She also loves to sing mountain folk songs. According to the nurses, She sings something like "A young girl loves a young boy, the young boy loves the young girl..." almost everyday from early morning.

Her memory and communication abilities has reduced recently years, when she had to renew her Hong Kong ID card a few years ago, the authority came to take her picture instead of having her go to their office. Her birthday on her ID card is actually 04th January 1893, but that was according to Chinese calendar. During Ms Cheung's time, only Chinese calendar was used for the common people in China, not the western Gregorian calendar.

The Oldest Living Man, according to Gerontology Research Group, is an American, Walter Breuning, who was born in Minnesota on September 21, 1896, now 113 years old.

World's Oldest Woman is Kama Chinen, Japan, born on May 10, 1895, now 114 years old. That makes Ms Cheung 2 years 4 months and 6 days older than Kama Chinen, at the current age of 117 years 1 month and 17 days.

Just hope that the Gerontology Research Group or the Guinness Book of World Records will investigate and make an official announcement and clear up the real title holder soon, whoever the oldest living woman might be, these are super-centenarian, but still they are human beings, very old human beings.

But then again, Ms Cheung probably do not care about this title, she is just as happy singing her mountain folk songs "A young girl loves a young boy, the young boy loves the young girl...".

Sources:
Ming Pao (明報): 117歲婆婆或全球最長壽
Gerontology Research Group: Validated Living Supercentenarians

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China Baidu And Japan Rakuten Announce Joint Venture to Establish Chinese Mega Online Mall

MasPoster — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:29:48 +0000

Baidu, China largest search engine and third largest in the world, and Rakuten, Japan largest e-commerce company, announce a joint venture aiming to establish and operate China largest online shopping mall.

The online shopping mall will create a platform for other businesses to establish their internet outlets to provide products and services to the vast number of Chinese internet users, which is estimated to be around 384 million users in 2009.

In the future, the Chinese online shopping mall and Rakuten Japanese could be linked up to allow Chinese and Japanese businesses to promote their services and products in both markets.

The online shopping mall is expected to start operating within this year (2010).

Baidu: (In Chinese) 百度乐天宣布组建合资公司打造中国最大网络B2C商城
Rakuten: (In Japan) 百度(Baidu)との合弁会社設立による中国へのＥＣ事業の進出について

China Nanjing Aquarium Opens New Jellyfish Exhibit, Asia’s Best In Variety and Effect

MasPoster — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:17:42 +0000

“Nanjing underworld” an aquarium in Nanjing, China, has already an existing sea aquarium,a dolphin aquarium and polar bear exhibit, opens a new jellyfish exhibit to the public on the 28th January 2010.

The 8 million yuan investment boost Asia’s best jellyfish exhibit of over a dozen varieties housed in tanks with various effects. Some are being shown for the first time in China.

The aquarium opens daily 8：30 – 17：00.
Adult : 110 Yuan
Children (1m-1.4m) : 60 Yuan

NanJing underworld,LTD.
Address: (In Chinese) 南京市中山陵园四方城8号
Tel: 025-84441119-210、232
WWW: http://www.nuww.com.cn

German Leica MP Golden Camera celebrates 60th anniversary of People’s Republic of China

MasPoster — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:04:55 +0000

A limited edition of this glittering Lecia camera is only available in China.

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Below are details from promotional materials.

Leica MP Gold Camera with Lecia Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 Gold lens. The camera body is covered by LEICA Red Box Calf leather which looks alike the China red flag. The 24K gold camera and lens have Mao Zedong front type "中華人民共和國萬歲" red calligraphy and Tiananmen Square pattern. Special serial number starts from the year 1949 to 2009, each year for 1 set camera only. As a precious collection, the camera set is contained by a luxury wooden box. The reference price: RMB 199,900.-

"中華人民共和國萬歲" means "Long live the People's Republic of China"
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