Samsung Everland scales back luxury fashion

Samsung Everland scales back luxury fashion

Tuesday, Mar 04, 2014

Bae Ji-sook and Lee Woo-young

The Korea Herald/Asia News Network

SEOUL – Samsung Everland’s fashion division is shelving hexa by kuho, a high-end womenswear label targeting the global market, according to a company insider. Read more of this post

XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market

April shipping date set for ‘da Vinci’ 3D printer

March 4, 2014, 12:13 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan — XYZprinting Inc. (三緯國際) will be bringing its da Vinci 2.0 3D printer to Taiwan mid-April, the first part of a global roll-out focused on conquering the low-cost 3D printing market, a company executive said Monday. Read more of this post

Caixin Explains: The ‘Lianghui’ Meetings; The country’s top legislature and political advisory body are meeting this week. Here is what you should know about them

03.03.2014 17:23

Caixin Explains: The ‘Lianghui’ Meetings

The country’s top legislature and political advisory body are meeting this week. Here is what you should know about them

Compiled by Caixin

(Beijing) – Top lawmakers and political advisors from all over the country are gathering in the capital this week for this year’s “lianghui,” or sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Read more of this post

How HK could fall into a $1.5t trap

How HK could fall into a $1.5t trap
Eddie Luk
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Government expenditures by 2041 would reach HK$2.9 trillion – more than twice revenues of HK$1.4 trillion – in a worst-case scenario projected by a government working group. Read more of this post

Lisa Ho has not spoken publicly since the collapse of her fashion empire last year. Breaking her silence she reveals her harrowing ordeal, which saw her lose her business, her marriage and then her money

Lisa Ho’s betrayal

Published 03 March 2014 09:41, Updated 04 March 2014 10:02

Hannah Low

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Designer Lisa Ho at one of her shows. Photo: Steven Siewert

It was a warm day early in the spring of 2011 when fashion guru Lisa Ho and her accountant of 18 years met with a charismatic financier ­promising glittering returns and pools of money at the showroom for her iconic fashion label in Sydney’s trendy Surry Hills. Read more of this post

Med school dropout Josh Reich makes $130m look simple; Reich just sold his US online banking start-up, Simple, to Spanish global bank BBVA for $US117 million

Med school dropout Josh Reich makes $130m look simple

Published 03 March 2014 10:51, Updated 04 March 2014 10:02

John Kehoe

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Simple Bank co-founder and CEO Josh Reich in New York. Photo: Trevor Collens

Australians love to bash their banks. Josh Reich is a 35-year-old Australian who has turned bank bashing into a rich-list fortune. Read more of this post

How Affinity Childcare plans to avoid the fate of ABC Learning by only buying established centres: ‘We create a market for entrepreneurs to exit’

Caitlin Fitzsimmons Online editor

How Affinity Childcare plans to avoid the fate of ABC Learning by only buying established centres: ‘We create a market for entrepreneurs to exit’

Published 28 February 2014 12:35, Updated 03 March 2014 10:32

Affinity Childcare did not exist a year ago but it has since bought 57 centres and a chain of 12 managed centres, floated on the Australian Securities Exchange and on Friday, it reported its first set of financial results as a public company. Read more of this post

More than 1 million patients suffer harm each year while being treated in the U.S. health care system. Even more receive substandard care or costly overtreatment

One Third of Skilled Nursing Patients Harmed in Treatment

A study by Medicare’s inspector general of skilled nursing facilities says nearly 22,000 patients were injured and more than 1,500 died in a single month — a higher rate of medical errors than hospitals. Read more of this post

Is it good for people to fail occasionally? In our highly competitive world, we prize success and hate it when things go wrong, but is there actually a value in failing?

3 March 2014 Last updated at 00:47

Is it good for people to fail occasionally?

Lucy Wallis BBC News

In our highly competitive world, we prize success and hate it when things go wrong, but is there actually a value in failing? Read more of this post