Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 5 Apr (Sun) – It’s Not the Inequality; It’s the Immobility; Income equality is about bridging the gap between rich and poor. Economic equality is about raising up the poor

Life

• It’s Not the Inequality; It’s the Immobility; Income equality is about bridging the gap between rich and poor. Economic equality is about raising up the poor: NYT
• How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”: BP
• Ongoingness: Sarah Manguso on Time, Memory, Beginnings and Endings, and the True Measure of a Life Filled with Aliveness: BP
• The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina and How He Shaped the Course of Medicine; How a voraciously curious little boy became one of the world’s greatest healers. BP
• A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments: BP
• Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Moral Human Being, and Her Piercing Advice to Writers: BP
• The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much: NYT

Investing Process

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractorx

Greater China

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Chinese banks in liquidity pinch turn to Taobao to raise capital: SCMP
• China’s Online Sales Fakery Problem Might Be Bigger Than You Think: Forbes
• Ten must-read books that explain modern China: Fortune

Japan & Korea

• Japan’s wary manufacturers resist Abe’s urge to splurge: Reuters

ASEAN

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Black eats black: Quah Su-Ling, the chief executive of public-listed Ipco involved in Asiasons-Blumont-LionGold penny scam, lost her $50m law suit against Goldman Sachs in London for alleged breach of contract – and was ordered to pay $15.5m to the investment bank instead: AsiaOne

Macro

• Victims of Financial Wrongdoing Need a More Muscular S.E.C.; The regulator lacks the power to extract fines equal to the losses of harmed investors, often making class-action suits their best recourse. NYT
• Globalization in a nutshell: A pharmacy in Paris is a Korean tourist attraction: Quartz

TMT

• The iPad’s next frontier: Creativity for the masses; On its fifth anniversary, a look at Apple’s tablet as a medium for amateur self-expression, and what that might mean for its future.: FastCo
• The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies Of 2015 In The Internet Of Things: FastCo
• iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch: Wired

Energy & Commodities

• The eggs are not always golden: Investors need to know the intricacies of the poultry business in order to make a success of it. TheStar

Consumer & Others

• Private Eyes in the Grocery Aisles; Food suppliers, manufacturers and markets depend on testing companies like IEH Laboratories to find contaminated products and to root out fraud. NYT