Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 13 Apr (Mon) – Andy Warhol: Don’t Make a Problem of your Problems, How a Person Gets Disciplined, and The Value of Time on Values

Life

• Andy Warhol: Don’t Make a Problem of your Problems, How a Person Gets Disciplined, and The Value of Time on Values: Farnam
• How Pixar Solves Problems From The Inside Out: Techcrunch
• 3 leaders who shaped Mr Lee’s evolution: India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Henry Kissinger, Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo: AsiaOne
• Doubt Yourself Less, Back Yourself More: Forbes
• Six Strategy Traps: Farnam
• Elon Musk: A Framework for Thinking: Farnam
• Endless options can be exhausting. We need to know when choice matters: Guardian
• Judi Dench’s Advice to Her 30-Year-Old Self, From Coping with Fear to Subverting the Norm: Stylist
• Twenty-First Century Stoic — From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic: BB
• What’s More Important to You: the Initial Rush of Prose or the Self-Editing and Revision That Come After It?: NYT
• Chemistry Departments Try to Attract More Students by Retooling the Major; Universities begin to overhaul traditional curricula in science field that some worry is churning out too few graduates for nation’s needs: WSJ
• 12 highly influential people share the morning routines that set them up for success: BI
• How Australian scientists are bending the rules to get research funding: TheAge
• Is more information making us more wise?: JP
• Whistleblow for a bright future; whistleblowers get between 10% and 30% of the money collected by the SEC. This has proven to be a powerful incentive for people to come forward and report wrongdoings in the capital market.: TheStar

Books

• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal: Amazon

AsianExtractor: Unearthing Accounting Fraud in Asia

• China Environment (SES: 50U, Bloomberg: CENV SP): Auditor Emphasis of Matter raises more questions on potential accounting tunneling risk: AsianExtractor
• 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
• Does Auditor Explanatory Language in Unqualified Audit Reports Indicate Increased Financial Misstatement Risk? “Emphasis of matter” language predicts restatements + China Environment’s Auditor Emphasis of Matter: AsianExtractor

Greater China

• Stock Connect Buyers Shun Hong Kong Blue Chips; Chinese seek brands famous on mainland; less attention to firms like HSBC, Swire Pacific: WSJ
• Seeing Bang for Buck, Even China Fireworks Makers Now Do Finance: bloomberg
• Greed Never Felt So Good to Hong Kong Bulls Chasing Stock Gains: Bloomberg
• Wanted: Global Buyers for China’s $258 Billion Muni Bond Flood: Bloomberg
• Hotels Snubbed Amid China Rally as Expansion Plans Exceed Growth: Bloomberg
• Cultivating a risk culture biggest barrier to Hong Kong’s tech dreams: SCMP

India

• Subhash Runwal: Building dreams and a $1 billion fortune; From coming to Mumbai with just Rs 100 to becoming a real estate magnate, Subhash Runwal scripted his success story with his ‘nothing is impossible’ mantra : Forbes

Japan & Korea

• South Korea resource drive undone by scandal: FT
• Bridging corruption and legitimacy: Amakudari; it reaches into almost every aspect of civil and economic life, quietly taking its cut in the form of higher prices, obscure but lucrative monopolies and seemingly bizarre regulations. JT

India

• ‘Amazon of India’ spices up deliveries with dabbawallas; Flipkart joins forces with Mumbai’s army of meal delivery cyclists: FT

ASEAN

• Vietnam alluring for global beer players: AsiaOne
• Indonesian beer sales could go flat for Diageo and Heineken: FT
• Philippine banks in centre of industry shake-up: SCMP
• Steer Clear of Malaysian Stocks: The country faces a daunting array of problems it’s unlikely to solve any time soon. Plus, the shares aren’t cheap. Barron’s
• EPF not in the business of bailing out companies, says CEO Shahril: TheStar

Macro

• Flattening Yield Curve Latest Complication for Fed: WSJ
• Information Is Not a Crime; The government’s elastic definition of insider trading is running into trouble in the courts—and that’s good, because markets need more information, not less.: WSJ
• GE Capital succumbs to changing regulatory climate: FT
• The $9 Trillion Short That’s Seen Sending the Dollar Even Higher: Bloomberg
• Flash Move Haunts Bond Traders Heeding Dimon’s Warning of Crisis: Bloomberg
• Wall Street Banks’ Mutual Funds Can Lag on Returns; Most funds run by the four largest Wall Street banks in the business have underperformed their basic benchmarks over the last 10 years, according to a Morningstar analysis. NYT

Healthcare

• How the Hottest Biotech Sprouted in Iowa; NewLink Genetics has attracted big dollars for its cancer, Ebola research; but can it keep attracting talent?: WSJ

Energy & Commodities

• Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil: Bloomberg

TMT

• How 3-D Printing Is Going Out of This World; Researchers explore ways to build objects in space; lunar dust as ink: WSJ
• We’ve discovered another project in Google’s top secret research lab – and it could change the future; Google Gets Into Battery Arms Race; Research team working on projects to improve lithium-ion and solid-state batteries: BI, WSJ
• A New Revolution Modernizes The Revenue Supply Chain: Techcrunch
• The Real Reason Open Source Startups Fail: Techcrunch
• Yahoo Answers Is Not Research, Or How Two Startups Are Fighting For The Future Of Knowledge: Techcrunch
• Inkl gets ex-WSJ editor backing in bid to be ‘Netflix of news’: BRW
• Amazon, Google and More Are Drawn to Home Services Market; Bringing the efficiency of the web to common household tasks has opened a new door to the home services industry, which is estimated to be worth more than $800 billion. NYT
• Amazon Drones Could Deliver Packages for Just $1, Study Suggests: Bloomberg
• The Innovators: Opendesk, the Airbnb of office furniture? The office furniture start-up aims to link designers with customers and local makers to cut and deliver pre-designed clip-together plywood desks and chairs: Guardian
• How e-commerce fraud-fighting firm Ethoca bounced back; In its 10-year history, Ethoca has watched forces beyond its control wipe out its business model twice. But each time, the company reinvented itself and emerged stronger: FP
• You can trade stocks through your Apple Watch; UK’s IG Group launches trading app for Apple Watch: Reuters

Consumer & Others

• GE’s Industrial Business Is in the Spotlight; Company stakes future on jet engines, power turbines and oil equipment: WSJ