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Brexit.....Shifting Sands

Next Friday, the UK needs to decide on their own destination to be in Europe or not; and if they (legislators) decide to exit from EU, what kind of exit that they are comfortable with. The challenge lies in the fact that they cant decide uniletarally. EU Parliment must be consulted (using a very diplomatic word). In reality, they have to get the Continent to agree to their proposal of exit mechanism.

I had great pleasure attending the briefing on Brexit and its impact on UK, EU and US. The briefing was conducted by the Chief Economist of one of the biggest banks in the world hearquarted in London. Her data and analysis are superb.

Some of the insights that I can conclude from this analytical briefing:
a. The issue of foriegn immigaration has become one of the most accute problems nowadays. Brexit is just the outcome of this hard reality. UK is not alone. Looking into the the current political map of EU, there are many other countries which are run by the populist government which includes Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Hungry, etc.
b. The Brexit will not only hurt UK, but also a few EU countries which have big exposure to UK (export market).
c.At the times of uncertainty, the market tends to price in the uncertainty element of material changes. This will also hurt the market.
d. The position of London which has been known as the services centre for many centuries when it loses its passporting advantage after Brexit. Which city is the next candidate?
e. The contagious effect of Brexit meaning which country is the most probable candidate to follow the step of UK. All indications are pointing towards Italy.
f. A new curency market and tough fight of USD vs. GBP vs. Euro (not only GBP will be implicated but Euro too)
g. The most alarming signal is the rise of unilatarian vis-a-vis bilateral and community form of the world. It is easy and populist to call for exclusiveness but it is hard to believe in inclusiveness and sharing economy.

While we are not sure what would happen to UK, EU and the world after next Friday, the May goverment and all the British members of the Parliament are having sleepless night.

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【玳瑚師父客人見證】《非一般的餐會》
The Extraordinary Meal Session (English version below)

文 / 蔡豪華 Written by Louise Choy

首先，我要感謝玳瑚師父慈悲允許我出席這次寶貴的餐會。我本身對玄學有錯誤的觀念，選擇了隨波逐流，大家信什麼，我就跟著信。但那晚的餐會讓我茅塞頓開，像一道光明把我心中的疑团驅散，敞開了我的心房，去愛地球上的每一個生命，從细小的螞蟻到另一個人。我也學到我們的每一句話，每一個動作，都會產生相對的效果，影響著我們的健康。

據報導，癌症是我國的首號殺手，也是最耗金錢的病症，因為化療和電療都非常昂貴。我在大學時期曾經與癌症病患接觸，目睹了他們接受治療時的痛苦。他們經歷身心靈的巨變，讓我看了很心痛，聽到他們在化療時所發出的痛苦呻吟聲，我有時更會淚眼盈眶。我當時很想為他們做點什麼。這些病患和他們的家人還得面對金錢和精神上的壓力，苦不堪言。但僅管醫生盡了全力去拯救，也會有病人的病情毫无改善。

所以我會想，除了醫藥治療，我們還能如何幫助癌症病患或預防癌症呢？這些年我得到的答案，包括養成健康良好的生活習慣及基因遺傳。良好的生活素質能夠避免疾病，這是無可置疑的。可是這些就能保證我們不會患癌嗎？我有一位親戚，他平時不抽煙喝酒，天天跑步運動，飲食也非常健康，但最後還是患癌。他家族也沒有患癌的前科，你可以想像我們接獲這消息後的訝異。

其實要避免患癌，就必須把視野擴大去探討科學、人體運作及醫學之外的領域。參研居家風水及八字命理，和我們平日的作息，是確確實實能夠幫我們抗癌的。我就在昨晚找到了答案。請相信我，玳瑚師父所給予我們的教導，讓我思考了很久才能夠「消化」，內容浩瀚，但非常值得我們去學習和廣傳給那些有需要的人。

玳瑚師父不單單講解有關抗癌的訊息，也包括其它的疾病，如男性健康、女性健康、腦中風、心臟病、等等。讓我記憶最深刻的是，師父告訴我，我家裡隱藏了一位就連我都沒有發覺的「靈異朋友」。我向鄰居的傭人打聽這屋子的歷史後，才驚覺師父果真料事如神。

我照著師父的建議去做，就再也沒有在半夜三更聽到傢具移動和牆壁敲擊的聲音了。

我非常感激他給我指點迷津，也很慶幸能夠出席師父的餐會，有緣分認識這位謙虛和踏實的師父。

如果師父再辦另一個餐會，我鼓勵大家出席，並持著一個開通的思維以及尊敬的心。最後，希望大家獲益後，要將愛分享出去，給您的至親至愛，不認識的人，甚至自己的敵人。:)

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First of all, I would like to thank Shifu Daihu for his kind and compassionate heart to allow me to attend such precious tea session with him. I am someone who does have misconception what chinese metaphysics is all about and go by the cookie cutter (meaning whatever the mass choose to follow to believe in, I will follow to believe). But after this tea session, it opens up my mind like a big parachute and shifting my heart to love all beings on earth e.g from tiniest ant to human and be mindful of our words and actions that can create cause and effect which eventually lead to health problems.

As mentioned, cancer is one of the common disease in Singapore and considered one of the most expensive disease to treat or cure e.g requires costly chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I have worked with cancer patients during university days and had witnessed cancer patients going through cancer treatments. The psychological and physical changes in a cancer patient is drastic and painful to watch. Sometimes, I teared silently to myself whenever I saw patient moaning and groaning in pain during chemotherapy. I told myself I wish I could do more for these people. Not forgetting, the financial and emotional stress put on their families can be too heavy and draining to bear. There also come to a point where doctors have exhausted their medical expertise and have done everything they could to save a cancer patient but still, there are no signs of cure or improvement.

So I wonder - Beside medical treatment, what else can be done to prevent or help a cancer patient? Well, the answer I have got over the years range from adopting a healthy lifestyle or genetics. Yes no doubt, a healthy lifestyle does play a part but what if someone who leads a healthy lifestyle, and still stricken with cancer? One of my relatives who doesn't smoke, jogs and exercises everyday. He eats healthily but in the end he was stricken with cancer. Also, his family has no history of cancer. Imagine seeing our shock expression when we came to know he has got cancer.

Well, the answer to prevent cancer goes beyond the surface of understanding of how our body works, scientific and medical way. But rather understanding of our home Fengshui, Bazi and our daily actions do play a part in cancer prevention. So last night, I found the answers and trust me, it took me awhile to digest the lessons given by Master Dai Hu, it was overwhelming but yet worthwhile for us to learn and pass the message to others who needs it.

Master Dai Hu not only covered the topics on cancer but also other health issues ranging from women and men health, stroke, heart disease and many more. One particular insight Master Daihu gave me was that something (a ghost) existed in my house which I wasn't aware of and he nailed it 100% with accuracy (I verified my house's history with my neighbour's maid) !

I followed the advice of Master Dai Hu and the mysterious noises from the movement of furniture and banging of the wall just disappeared without a trace.

I am so grateful that he pointed it out to me! I never regret coming down to attend his tea session and felt so blessed to know this down to earth and modest master.

Come and attend his next tea session if there is. Go to him with an open mind and with respect. Last but not the least, don't forget to spread love to your loved ones, strangers and even enemies once you leave the tea session. :)

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Thaksin Shinawatra in Private Discussion
World Policy Institute Global Leader Briefing Series Thinking Points
World Policy Institute, 9th March 2016, New York

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Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I must thank you World Policy Institute for providing me an opportunity to share my thought on the challenges that revolve around the economic, regional and global implications of how Thailand will make its way through a period of transition and change.

We all know that no society in the twenty-first century can sustain any form of “progress” in the well-being of its people without at least two basic foundations:
The first one is political stability. The second one is the ability to create economic activities that allow growth and readiness to shift its creativities to sustain wealth.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me tell you the tale of the two cities, which is not written by Charles Dickens. It is the tale of parallel progress of Washington D.C. and Beijing. Each has its own history, pain and loathing. As the years go by, the two cities have been seen as rivals which offers competing models for growth and prosperity.

One is Free Market-Capitalism with the so-called “Open Democracy” as the foundation of its economic model. The other one is State-Led Capitalism with the central control system by one party.

Both of the models have proven to be successful in a very dramatic way from the past to the present. Admitting that the Chinese model was fitting to the change of attitude among the leadership of the country at that time, in parallel with the change of economic model in the West, in which the definition of “free trade” benefits China’s shifting position from a close market to a semi-open market.

But we must admit also that both models are now having to adjust itself to the new reality; the reality of dramatic change in speed and character of technology for industrial production; the change from “a country-based product” to “network of global design, global sourcing,and global production for just one product”. This extraordinary change upends the “normal” internal economic adjustment of the country and made it very difficult to find a simple economic adjustment.

We must recognize that advancement in the wealth management technique and technology also upend the normal linkage between capital and changes in production. However, we probably agree, that one common threat for survival in this present so-called “New Normal” is either you have the ability and willingness to change or you don’t. Thailand, like the other countries, cannot get away from this New Normal in the international context.

Ladies and Gentleman,

There is a tale of a poor English teacher in China who soared to the list of the world’s wealthiest people. He neither built a big factory nor invested in any production facility. But, people paid for his service simply to reach the network of supply and demand on a grand scale. I believe, he must feel thank you to the internet.

Ladies and Gentleman,

Amid the global economic slowdown, the pattern of trade has significantly changed. Due to the development of information technology infrastructure and increasing number of population who is able to access to the internet, e-commerce has become a new engine that sustains growth for both developed and developing economies. According to UNCTAD’s report last year, the value of global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce in 2013 exceeded $15 trillion USD. While global business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce still accounted for an estimated $1.2 trillion USD, this segment has grown at a rapid pace; especially in the Asia and Oceania region where B2C segment is expected to surge from 20 to 37 percent between 2013 to 2018. Due to the incremental growth of cross-border e-commerce trade, international postal deliveries of small packets and parcels have risen by 48 percent between 2011 to 2014 globally.

For both Asia and the West, I believe these numbers provide us with clues for the new growth opportunities where “access to networks” is the key: meaning, the networks of consumers and factors of production across geographical boundaries. Unlike the economy of twentieth century when “access to centers” is the rules of the game, today, businessmen who do not have big factories and are not the owners of multinational corporations, can manage to reach and satisfy the needs of their customers worldwide through networks of production and distribution with an assist of the new communication technology. Today’s economy is increasingly decentralized. Consumption and production are more and more dispersed. We could imagine that an American producers can sell their products online directly to consumers in the western part of China without having to spend business hours in Beijing or Shanghai. Vice versa, a Chinese producer can bypass New York to offer their products to customers in New England and Mid-Atlantic states. The network economy has provided the people, both in small and large businesses, with the ability to produce and access to consumers at lower costs. We, as a global community, must put special emphasis on how each country can invest and share risk with the people to create growth collectively.

Ladies and Gentleman,

Another tale is about the rebirth of a road that nobody cares since the Portuguese discovered a possible sea route from Europe to Asia. The Portuguese did offer an alternative trade route with substantial margins for the goods carried. Although you might lose half of the cargoes on the way, you still did not lose your shirt. Since the demand for spices were overwhelming, the merchant marines heavily charge everybody.

Ladies and Gentleman,

The heavy-load transport through the sea has been with us till now, and the land routes from Asia to Europe have been neglected. If the world’s economy is thriving like the good old days, probably, not so many people would be interested in finding an alternative in life. But, since the situation goes awry, I believe, any country should consider all possibilities.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, there are two major initiatives that, I think, have great potential to accelerate growth and leverage “quality of growth” that brought into being by the emergence of network economy. One is the China-led “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) plan to develop transport and logistics connectivity encompassed some 60 countries, which include about 50 percent of the world’s GDP. And, the other is the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries, which account for more than 40 percent of the world’s GDP. I have not seen these two initiatives as antagonistic, but rather a kind of two parallel processes that, at a certain point, will create mutual economic benefits for Asia and the West.

We must overcome the stereotype that perceive China and the US as merely the two opposing political superpowers. In reality, the economic development during the past decade has shown us how far these two major economies are interdependent. China is the largest foreign holder of US government securities with $1.24 trillion USD worth. With the total trade volume of $521 billion USD in 2014, the US is China’s biggest trade partner. Total US foreign direct investment (FDI) in China stood at $65.77 billion USD at the end of 2014, while the Chinese FDI in the US is estimated to have reach $11.9 billion USD.

Given this interdependence in mind, I believe Southeast Asia- the region that sits in between the two great initiatives of the two major economies- must put special emphasis on how to enhance the mutual economic benefits with its counterparts. For Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century, the geopolitics should be about how to reinforce the networks of wealth creation for the people that stretch across national and regional borders.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me tell you the last tale about a Thai restaurant. No matter how many times the master chef tries to teach his protege, the young man keeps making mistakes in mixing the ingredients. Customers are kept waiting, hungry and mad. Once the customers are served, half of them get diarrhea afterward. The moral of this tale is one must make the written recipe right.

Ladies and gentlemen,

While some people may underline the unique characteristics of Thailand in terms of its history and developmental path, the country itself cannot avoid to come to terms with the global challenges of the twenty-first century. For half a century, the Thai economy has incrementally integrated into global economy. Values of Thailand’s exports per GDP and FDI in the country have shown us clearly how far the growth of Thai economy has been interwoven with the fate of global economy.

Against this context, we shall consider Thailand’s draft constitution with a very simple question: will the latest draft constitution “enable” the country to grow and become stronger in the present world? Or, will the latest draft constitution provide Thailand with a sufficient institutional infrastructure for investment, production, cooperation, and businesses?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Due to the framework set out by the latest draft constitution, it is difficult to foresee a government that is responsive to the people and the challenges of the twenty-first century. According to the new draft, the 200-seat upper house, or Senate, will be appointed by the so-called “experts”. The Senate will also have greater powers to block legislation. Regarding the Constitutional Court, its scope of jurisdiction will be expanded. The Court will have the power to examine cases based on petitions filed directly by individuals, without the requirement that an actual dispute being brought by political organs or other courts.

If we consider the doctrine of separation of powers as the foundation for growth and stability, the critical issue that we shall examine is whether the judicial power will trespass the provinces of legislature/ and executive or not? For a government to be able to manage the economy against the global slowdown, I do hope that there will be no over-enforcement of the judicial power. Experiences of several countries show us that, if unchecked, judicial review can be inappropriately used as “delaying tactic”; thus, in turn, become an impediment to economic policy implementation.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I believe that the foundation for the country to create growth and prosperity is to build trust in the global community. The constitution shall protect the rule of law and provide at least a minimum level of freedom of speech that facilitates economic cooperation between the people and the global community. Trade and investment cannot flourish if there is no certain degree of confidence provided by the rule of law. Against the transition and change, Thailand must reevaluate its strength and weakness. The country shall find a sensible way to regain its political stability and economic dynamism. I have only proposed the way of how should we think of the phenomena that is the world today.

60 A Minute 在作品『與時間牽手』的結構核心，是採用心理學角度作為出發，觀者在60個一分鐘的結構裡，體驗大腦對時序、時距和時點的不同感知，證明時間是主觀和人性化的，不同人對其意識程度和認知也有不同。

在董怡芬的編舞經驗中，「時間」一直在她的創作元素裡佔有極大且重要的位置，時間長度地掌握也一直是創作裡非常重要的功夫，巧妙運用時間的長短與快慢變化，產生所需的效果傳達。時間是一條持續向未來延伸的長線，20世紀的天才哲學家海德格（Martin Heidegger），把人生描繪為不斷做選擇並「被拋向未來」的存在。此製作其最終目標並非在於辯證出時間理論其正確性，而是藉此製作處理一向以時間推進為主要感官知覺的觀舞方式，能夠有其他的閱讀機會。安娜琪舞者一向擅長處理現場表演與觀眾之間的對應關係，在精細舞蹈編排設定後，時而慘入對時序的打破、時而對現實時間的推移做改變、時而藉由空間的流轉改變時間的定義。

The core structure of “60 A Minute” derives from a psychological perspective. In 60 one-minute-sections, the audience find themselves experience time order, time interval, and timing differently, proving that how we perceive time is subjective, human-centered, and variant among one another.

In I-Fen Tung’s choreography, “time” has been a constant key element. She values the mastering of time, utilizing different time length and speed to create the desired effects in her pieces. Time is a continuous extension into the future. Martin Heidegger, a renowned philosopher of the 20th century, depicts life as incessant decision-making and “being tossed towards the future”.

The aim of this production is not to debate the theory of time, but to generate an alternative to the usual perception of viewing dance in the chronology of time. Anarchy Dance Theatre excels in creating strong interfaces between audience and live performance. Their choreography, delicate and well thought out, integrates the shatter of time order, the shifting of real-time, and the influence of space transformation towards the meaning of time.

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