2014 年 11月 07日星期五 Business/Perspective 经济/论谈 Friday, November 07, 2014 Indy Asian American Times 7

周娜), Joanna Zhou ( now showed Monday. Foreign direct investment (FDI) residing in Knoxville TN, science. Dean Bobby Schnabel says the program will in the city’s manufacturing and service industries immigrated to Indianapolis help meet job demand as data generation escalates “at saw steady growth. Actual foreign investment in the with her husband from unprecedented levels.” Beijing in 2013, where she manufacturing sector reached 6.3 billion dollars in Purdue to Name Farm After Lugar worked in Human Resources this period, up 24.5 percent year on year. Contracted Purdue University will name its forestry and for a U.S. Fortune 500 foreign investment in the manufacturing sector saw a natural resources farm after a longtime U.S. senator. 9.2 percent increase to reach 5.05 billion dollars. The Richard G. Lugar Forestry Farm aims to boost company. She enjoys her 天津市前三季度实际使用外资同比增长12% new life with her husband Indiana’s forest products industry through improved and kept in touch with her 今年前三季度，天津全市累计批准外商直接投资 hardwoods. 项目498个，同比增长10.7%；实际使用外资141.8 Indy Among First to Offer New Fiber Service IUPUI Looks to China For Growth IAAT friends and readers by Indianapolis is among six cities across the nation contributing to this column. 亿美元，同比增长12%；合同外资173.1亿美元， IUPUI is looking to increase its Chinese student 同比增长10.9%。同时，亚洲国家地区实际投资继 where AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is rolling out its new population through a partnership with Indianapolis’ Security tightens in Beijing ahead of APEC 续保持主导地位。今年前三季度，日本实际投资 AT&T Business Fiber, which it says will give customers sister city in the country’s Zhejiang Province. The meeting 19.4亿美元，同比增长62.4%，韩国17.3亿美元， faster broadband speeds. AT&T Indiana President University Preparatory Program aims to enroll an Beijing is ramping up security ahead of this 同比增长53.2%，新加坡9.2亿美元，同比增长 Bill Soards says there has been a recent resurgence annual class of 35 high school graduates. week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 22.9%，中国台湾4.4亿美元，同比增长39.9%，还 of demand for faster speeds and bandwidth as small Global Worries Slow State Exports meeting by setting up more checkpoints and police 有香港实际投资也达到了68.6亿美元，以上五个 and large businesses use the Internet for data backup, A report from Indiana University’s Kelley School of stations, confirmed local authorities on Monday.In 国家和地区合计实际使用外资119亿美元，占今年 enhanced video conferencing and remote storage. Business shows a slowing global economy is taking downtown Beijing, 161 police stations were equipped 前三季度全部使用外资的83.9%。 Soards tells Inside INdiana Business Television more a toll on the state’s exports. The Indiana Business with bulletproof helmets, knife-proof uniforms and China offers 4th batch of aid to Africa in than 5,000 Indianapolis customers are already using Research Center says Indiana exports totaled $34.2 explosion-proof blankets, said Zhang Jing, vice head anti-Ebola efforts the technology. billion in 2013, slightly lower than the previous year. of the patrolmen contingent with the BMSB. Police China on Wednesday unveiled the details of its 4th Event Highlights STEM Successes, Research Director Tim Slaper says the state is selling also added X-ray machines, security gates, detectors batch of aid worth some 82 million U.S. dollars to Challenges fewer products to countries including the United and explosive-removal robots so as to improve help African countrie’s fight against the ebola virus. More than 1,500 teachers, administrators, business Kingdom, France and Germany. He says Indiana could security checks in China’s capital.To complete a three- According to Sun Jiwen, spokesman of the Ministry and community leaders are in Indianapolis this help spark a rebound by providing resources to small dimensional command network during the summit, of Commerce, the latest aid package includes sending week for a summit spotlighting science, technology, and mid-size companies that are considering exporting police bought a medium-sized helicopter. A series health experts to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea -- engineering and math education. The 2014 Project for the first time. of APEC meetings bearing the theme “Shaping the the three hardest-hit countries in the Ebola crisis -- to Lead The Way Summit includes keynotes from former Study: Indiana Business Climate Ranked 8th Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership” will be held help contain the epidemic and sending public health U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and Steve The Tax Foundation has ranked Indiana eighth in the from Nov. 5 to 11 in Beijing, one of the city’s highest- staff to train local doctors and nurses, as well as medical Forbes. PLTW President Vince Bertram says the event nation for its business tax climate index. The Indiana profile international events since the 2008 Olympics. equipments and materials.China will build a 100-bed will allow Indiana schools and businesses to showcase Economic Development Corp. says the state moved up 北京正式进入APEC模式 安保加强 treatment center in Liberia where the epidemic is how they address STEM challenges, such as engaging a notch from last year and remains tops in the Midwest APEC会议即将在北京召开，今天，北京开始正式 most serious and send doctors and nurses there for its more girls and minorities. for business tax competitiveness. 实施调休放假。这也意味着北京正式进入了APEC operation. Moreover, China has pledged to donate 6 Daniels Heading to India Indy to Deploy Hundreds of Electric Vehicles 模式。从安保、环保、交通、出行等各方面， million U.S. dollars to the UN Ebola Response Multi- Purdue University President Mitch Daniels will leave Indianapolis will add 425 plug-in hybrid and electric 北京都制定了详尽的保障措施: 北京警方“陆水 Partner Trust Fund and launch a program for China- Saturday for a five-day trip to India. The delegation vehicles to its fleet by 2016. Mayor Greg Ballard says 空”立体防控，全天候严防可疑车进京；为确保 Africa public health cooperation to hold 12 training will meet with university and business leaders in hopes the Freedom Fleet program will save the city $8.7 APEC会场、驻地等核心区域绝对安全，北京警方 sessions on public health and epidemic prevention and of strengthening educational and research partnerships. million over ten years. 最大化投入防爆安检力量，采取人检、犬检、器 control for the three epidemic-stricken countries, the Joint Venture Celebrates 25 Years Solar Farm Makes ‘Powerful’ Statement 材检相互结合、相互验证的手段，确保不漏过一 African Union and the Economic Community of West Two companies are celebrating the 25th anniversary Indianapolis International Airport says it will soon 个疑点； 为严密街面防控，武装处突车进一步密 African States in 2015. of creating what has become a well-known brand in have the largest airport solar farm on the planet. 集巡逻频次；初次之外，北京及周边地区的收寄 中国向西非国家提供第四批援助抗击埃博拉 biotechnology. Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) and Crews have begun work on the second phase of the 标准加强，易燃易爆易腐蚀、医疗用品及药品、 中国外交部发言人洪磊17日在例行记者会上向 Eli Lilly and Co.(NYSE: LLY) formed Indianapolis- $55-$65 million project. When it’s complete later this 鲜活易腐物品，以及国家法律禁止的运输和流通 记者介绍了中方支持西非国家抗击埃博拉疫情的 based Dow AgroSciences LLC in 1989. Chief year, the 150-acre farm will have more than 76,000 的一切物品等，一律不能收寄。若有华人在此期 有关举措。中国政府在分别在4月、8月和9月累 Executive Officer Tim Hassinger tells Inside INdiana solar panels and supply enough energy to power 3,200 间回京请做好准备。 计向西非国家提供了2.34亿元人民币的人道主义 Business Television during the past quarter-century, homes. Airport spokesman Carlo Bertolini says the China to send more students abroad 援助，其中包括防护救治物资、粮食和现汇援助 the company has grown its work force 60 percent and farm makes productive use out of land that had been The government-sponsored China Scholarship 等。中方还派出近200名的专家和医疗人员赴西非 watched sales explode from $1.5 to $7.1 billion. “largely written off.” He says it can also help attract site Council (CSC) on Thursday said it will send 25,000 国家，与这些国家的人民一起抗击埃博拉疫情。 Report Shows Slight Housing Dip selectors and Millennials looking for environmentally- students abroad next year, 17 percent more than in 近日，中方宣布将向西非国家提供第四批总额至 RE/MAX of Indiana LP says the number of homes friendly communities. 2014. An official with the CSC said the expansion 少1亿元人民币援助，其中包括60辆救护车、100 sold in central Indiana in the third quarter of 2014 Indy Unveils Plaza Design Winner will include up to 8,000 more Chinese graduate and 辆摩托车、1万个防控护理包、15万套个人防护装 decreased slightly compared to the same period last Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard says the winning doctorate students. The official said the CSC has 备。此外，中方将再派出几十名专家，计划培训1 year. Broker Chris Schulhof says “heavier scrutiny” entry in the City-County Building Plaza Design sent 20,400 students abroad in 2014 making a total 万名医疗护理人员和社区骨干防控人员。 by mortgage lenders was a factor in the 1.8 percent Competition will turn the area into “downtown’s of 46,000 students in 85 countries supported by the Taiwan tycoon faces 30 years for food scandal decline. new backyard.” Design Collective’s estimated $12.5 CSC. The council has established programs with Prosecutors in Taiwan’s Changhua County on IU Adds Data Science Degree million concept includes a splash park, ice rink and some international organizations. In July it signed Thursday filed charges of fraud and breaches of food Indiana University’s School of Informatics and outdoor seating area. an agreement with the United Nations Educational, safety regulations against Wei Ying-chung. Wei is Computing will launch a master’s degree in data Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to a major stakeholder of the family-owned food giant send interns there. Ting Hsin International Group, and, if convicted, could Since 1996, the CSC has sent over 160,000 Chinese spend 30 years behind bars. Ting Hsin subsidiaries students to study abroad, and 98 percent of them have were found to have used animal feed in cooking oil returned home. earlier this month. Wei resigned as chairman of Cheng 2015年国家公派出国留学选拔计划确定 I Food Co., Ting Hsin Oil and Fat Industrial Co. and Turn off the TV, tune out the noise 10月30日，国家留学基金管理委员会公布了2015 Wei Chuan Foods Corp., before he was taken into 年国家公派出国留学选拔计划，将选拔各类国家 custody on Oct. 17. Although Taiwan is known for 公派出国留学人员25,000人，比2014年增加17% its gourmet products, this was the second food scandal Mr. Kim is the Chief says, “Time in the market is the key, not timing the 。选派类别主要为访问学者、博士后、博士研究 to hit the island in less than a month. In September, Operation Officer and market.” 生、硕士研究生、本科交流生等。国家公派出国 oil maker Chang Guann Co. was caught using kitchen Chief Compliance It’s easy to find examples of players or teams 留学自1996年以来共选拔16余万人出国留学，按 snatching defeat from the jaws of victory due to waste and industrial grease in its lard, causing massive Officer for Kirr 期回国率保持在98%以上.2015年选拔简章及各项 recalls across the island. “choking” or “playing not to lose.” For investors, the 目选派办法将于2014年11月上旬在国家留学网 顶新“黑心油”漩涡 前董事长遭控刑30年 Marbach & Co. LLC, corollary bias is “loss aversion.” Behavioral finance （http://www.csc.edu.cn）公布。符合条件的中 自顶新“黑心油”事件上月爆发来，外界高度 an investment adviser research shows the pain investors feel from a loss 国公民均可按规定的程序和要求申请。 关注。昨日，该案有了重大进展。针对顶新饲料 based in Columbus is about twice as strong as the pleasure felt from an Tianjin sees steady growth in foreign 油案，台湾彰化检方昨天侦结起诉魏应充；检方 equivalent gain. investment 采用“一罪一罚”原则，认定顶制油前董事长魏 IN. Please visit www. With today’s 24/7 media bombardment, when the Actual foreign investment in north China’s port 应充共涉犯诈欺60次、加重诈欺79次，因此具体 kirrmar.com. market hits an inevitable rough patch, it’s easy to see city of Tianjin grew 12 percent in the first nine 求刑30年；另两名同犯顶新公司前后任总经理常 how loss aversion can lead to panic and trigger short- months to 14.2 billion U.S. dollars. Contracted 梅峰、陈茂佳各求刑25年和18年。同时，顶新遭 In 1964, news commentator Eric Sevareid said, term decisions harmful to attaining long-term goals. foreign investment increased by 10.9 percent year 商家起诉索赔10亿新台币，并得到法院裁准。另 “The biggest big business in America is not steel, Trying to avert losses often leads to averting gains. on year in the first three quarters to hit 17.3 billion 外，顶新魏家持股的台北10 1大楼也被逼交出经 automobiles or television. It is the manufacture, Investing is a marathon, not a sprint. As Warren dollars, data from the Tianjin Commerce Commission 营权。 refinement and distribution of anxiety.” As witnessed Buffett said, “Games are won by players who focus by the media hysteria surrounding Ebola, ISIS, on the playing field—not by those whose eyes are economic weakness abroad and the sudden and glued to the scoreboard.” Understand your biases and The Itinerant Songstress-Yoshiko Yamaguchi unwelcome return of extreme stock market volatility, “play to win.” 天涯歌女 - 李香蘭 Sevareid’s statement is even more true 50 years later. This is a mid-term election year (MTEY). by Dr. Benny Ko I’ve written a number of columns with advice According to Strategas Research Partners LLC, the Yoshiko was born in the city of Fushun (撫順), for when the talking heads are screaming about the S&P 500 experienced a swoon in 100% of the 13 Manchuria, in northeastern China. The year was 1920. coming apocalypse, so thought it might be useful to MTEYs starting in 1962, with maximum, minimum Her ancestry is Japanese, with father’s family hailed review some of those concepts. and average peak-to-trough declines of 38%, 8% and from Saga, Kyushu. Her grandfather was a scholar When facing a penalty kick, soccer goalkeepers dive 19% respectively. Past performance is no guarantee in Chinese Studies and he brought up his son Fumio, left or right 94% of the time, even when remaining of future results, but one-year from the trough, the Yoshiko’s father, well versed in Chinese culture and stationary would more than double the odds of making S&P 500 was also higher 100% of the time, with literature. Fumio Yamaguchi immigrated to China in the save. Why? Goalkeepers, like investors, often maximum, minimum and average bounces of 58%, 1906 where he later worked for the South Manchurian make decisions based on their perceived need to “do 12% and 32%. Railway Company, a Japanese owned enterprise. something.” Diving left or right gives the impression We don’t dismiss the severity of the issues the During his studying in Beijing, he became fluent in of making a heroic effort. Standing still does not. world and investors face, but there are always serious Chinese and spoke like a native. He also befriended Similarly, many investors feel the need to “do issues. A few months ago it was the Russian invasion some influential characters including Li Jichun (李際 something” with their investments, particularly when of Ukraine. Before that it was the Eurozone crisis, the 春), a powerful Chinese warlord and banker; the two media-proclaimed “experts” are jabbering about U.S. credit rating downgrade and multiple impending took an oath to become “blood brothers.” Later, when impending doom. My friend Carl Richards refers to defaults/government shutdowns. Yoshiko was born, Li also became her godfather and the self-inflicted financial damage of diving left or Stock prices are driven by interest rates (which thus she was given the Chinese name of Li Xianglan, right by repeatedly buying high and selling low as the Yoshiko Yamaguchi passed away at home in remain low) and corporate earnings (which continue “Fragrant Orchid.” Aside from friends who are “behavior gap.” Chiyoda district, Tokyo on September 7. She was 94. to grow). Following this latest upheaval, we think acquainted with her family, the others have always Formulate a plan and stick to it. It’s not easy to Who is she? Some of you may ask. Try Shirley U.S. are stocks more attractive than when the S&P assumed that she is Chinese. As a child, Yoshiko remain stationary at times when it seems like balls are Yamaguchi. No? 500 reached its record high, way back on September showed a great interest in music and was found to being rocketed at you at 100 MPH, but as Richards How about Yoshiko Otaka, or Yoshiko Noguchi? 18. have an exceptional voice. Through the introduction Still draw a blank? Try Ri Koran, or Li Xianglan. of a family of Russian friends (the daughter of which Li Xianglan, 李香蘭 as written in Chinese, or would also later save her life), she became the student kanji, as Chinese writing is known in Japanese, once of Madam Podresov, a renown Italian soprano. In had a 90% name recognition through out Asia, and time, she would also become an accomplished an the mention of it would evoke either adoration or accomplished coloratura soprano. Then she was condemnation, but seldom indifference. invited to Beijing to study at a prestigious lady’s The myriad of names for which the lady was known middle school by yet another prominent Chinese friend is also a synopsis for one of the most melodramatic of the family, a Mr. Pan (潘毓桂). She was registered characters in the 20th century and a story so audacious under the Chinese name of Pan Shu-hua (潘淑華) as a that no movie screenwriter would dare to even dream. country relative of the Pan family. The kanji 淑 is the Let me introduce her perhaps from another angle. same kanji as written in her Japanese name Yoshi-ko, Can you remember any of the songs that brought her 淑子. Both of her adopted Chinese names were not an to great fame and immense popularity in the late 1930s attempt to deceive anyone but rather a reflection of the and through out the 1940s? China Nights (支那の夜), close friendship between the Yamaguchi, the Li and the theme song from a movie that she also starred in, the Pan family. While the practice of cross adoption is the most controversial and arguably the best known, of one’s good friend’s child is not a familiar custom but her other great hits from that era also include in the western culture, it has a long tradition in most “Suzhou Serenade” East Asian countries. In Beijing, Yoshiko shed the (蘇州夜曲), “Fragrance of the Night” (夜來香), “ last vestige of her fluent but Dong-bei (Manchurian) Spring Beckoning Flower” (迎春花), “The Wandering accented mandarin and before you know it, she simple Songtress” (天涯歌女), “The Red Lotus” (紅睡蓮), became one of the hundreds of young Chinese ladies “The Sea Swallow” (海燕); these are just to name a in the school. few out of a score and more. What made her stood out was not her unknown I have come to know those songs long before I Japanese ethnicity, not even her Manchurian birth but know the person. From my earliest memory, my her voice and talent in singing. She entered an amateur grandmother would rock me in her arms while those singing contest in one of Beijing’s radio stations and songs were played from her 78 rpm records on a hand won it handily, beating out older and not so amateurish cranked gramophone. As I became a little older, I competitors. From there, it would launch her into a noticed she would stop the music whenever a male stratospheric career in both singing and acting, despite relative or visitor enters the room but seldom a female some initial family reluctance to see her going into a one. Finally, out of curiosity, I asked her why none topsy turvy world of the entertainment industry. of the men seems to like Li Xiang-lan’s songs? She (Next: What led her to unprecedented multi- sighed, and with great sadness, said “That is because national popularity and eventual embroilment in she is a Japanese.” I asked again, “How could she be the Sino-Japanese War, and how she narrowly Japanese when she clearly has a Chinese name?” This escaped execution from the firing squad as a spy and time, grandmother did not answer, she just looked out collaborator. But, before that, go on Youtube and treat the window and into the distance, lost in thoughts. yourself to some songs from her golden voice).

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