There might be many advantages from doing business with sibling, relatives or friends, but there might be some drawbacks either. A Lewis brother is the good example for this case.

Both of them are successful businessmen who run travelling business. Alan Lewis is a chief executive of Grand Circle Travel and his younger brother, Hank Lewis, owns Vantage Travel in Boston. They run same kind of business targeting at older travelers. Their business and relationship between them are seems to be good before some conflicts between them occurred. Alan borrowed money from his brother, hank, for $ 10 million to liquidate their business. Unfortunately, he was unable to pay his brother back. This is due to an economic recession or whatever reason but it led to a big problem. Each filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit.

As you can see from this case that even people have such a closer relationship such sibling or relatives, their relationship could be destroyed by the money. This kind of story occurs everywhere in the world regardless nationality or culture. There is no brother or sister in the world of business; people are still greedy and want to success in their business. They might overlook the important of relationship in real life. Everyone just focuses on the way to success in their business; they want to make as much as money they can. On money that people care.

From Lewis case, actually $10 million dollar is not a big amount of money for them compared to the value of their business. I don’t know what they are thinking.

This case also happens in Thailand. Family members sue each other for personal’s benefit, especially for money. Some case is many severe, family members killed each other for the heritage. This kind of thing was not supposed to happen. I know that money is one of the main factors we need for surviving but I don’t think people are going to rely on it too much like this. Money could seriously change everything for some people even their mind and personality trait. Some good person can turn to be bad because of money factor. Greedy can encourage you to do anything, especially illegal thing. Selling drugs is such a terrible thing to do, but many people choose to do this because they can make a lot of money and they can make it easily. It might be a good shortcut for being rich for them.

Money is so influent we could hardly imagine. We should weight for everything we do to see which one is more important to our life. Don’t let the money change everything in your life.

Gender and Victim

At a present time, I believe that women have an equal right with men in many terms, especially an opportunity to grow in their career. However, it is pity that there are still a lot of crimes related to sexual abuse. The most important reason why today crime rates related to sexual abuse (i.e., incest, prostitution, child molestation, and rape) are skyrocketing because of beliefs that support gender-related victimization

It is true that woman is weaker than man in way of physical, but I do not know why some people concern about this and take this point to commit a crime. There is news about sexual abuse almost every day in many countries around the world, much more in developing countries. The world has been kept developing but some people might forget to improve the level of morality in their mind. The world that our parents or last generation lived has now changed. It is not such a lovely place and easy to live anymore. I have frequently received the forward mailed about girls being raped and was recorded a video to black mail her later. I feel bad and depressed every time I know about this kind of story.

Most of victims are too awkward to report the police that they have been raped since they don’t want to be in public and it is too difficult to live in a society if other people know about this. This will make those bad guys become conceited and do not be afraid about what they do. Victims in western culture might be confident more to speak out and ask for their justice.

Numerous researches pointed out that many female victims were mostly abused by someone known such as cousins, or stepfather. It is, moreover, important to note that female victims are more likely to have long term effects from sexual abuse including mental, emotional, social, and physical problems. Also, many criminologists claimed that women who were sexually abused when they were young are more likely to commit a crime in the future. A good example for this theory is Aileen Wuornos case. She suffered from sexual abuse when she was young. As a result, when she grew up, she became a serial killer. Aileen Wuornos controversially claimed that the men she killed had raped her or were trying to do so. It is obvious that being a victim for sexual abuse has a big impact on her life.

I don’t know what will be the best solution for this problem but I think that the society should do something to solve this problem. The government should emphasize more on this kind of criminal justice and have a striker penalty of this sentence. Moreover, everyone in the society has to help each other improving the level of morality. This might have to foster our next generation since their childhood.

Television...a powerful media

Istanbul- there was reported that the protest about the conflict between Turkey and Israel. This issue is caused by Turkish’s drama called “Ayrilik- Askta ve Savasta Fillistin” which reflects vicious and aggressive of Israel soldiers.

After the first episode’s drama was released, mostly of Islamic displease as some scene in drama contributed complaint for example a soldier shoot a girl or shooting a Palestinian man while he was holding his baby. They believe that those scenes will lead to negative perspective among audiences. Israel’s protester attempted to stop the drama by sending the letter the foreign minister of Turkey.

However, Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign minister of Turkey clarified that the department didn’t have authorize to concern about broadcast activities. Moreover, he claimed that there is not censorship in the country. On the other hand, TRT television owner suggested that all most of drama always based on the previous issues such as the conflict between American and Vietnamese or Italian against Tunisians. The company just uses those situations to be the pilot of drama series.

The fact that the Israel was against Palestinian in GAZA at the beginning of this year made Islamic have no peaceful so they would like to stop anything that occur the negative image to the country. It is widely known that Turkey has been regarded as one of the most popular destinations, therefore this quarrel effect on its tourism industry by cancelling the vacation trips had been made by a group of worker’s unions as well as its economic also is disrupt.

As you can see that the media is very powerful. Television is one of the media tools that can reach to a large number of audiences. It can influent and dominate people’s thought and behavior. Children and teenager is the major group of people that could be affected. They tend to spend more and more time watching television or serving an internet. The more time they spend on television, the more influent television has on them. Many children try to behave like the characters they watch in television or in the game they play. The media producer should responsible for what they produce; it should not have a negative effect to their audiences. Besides, they should make sure that it won’t lead to any conflict among parties.

In Thailand, there is a media rating control. This is monitoring by authority of Public Relation. They will rate every program that is going to be on air. For instance, sign 13+ means this program is appropriate for the children aged 13 years old or above as it might have some violence shown in this program. I think this rating control is very important and useful since it helps preventing audience from some inappropriate programs. Moreover, this will directly make producer of those TV program to be more careful and responsible for their show.

Television is a good media used for both entertaining and educating, but we have to consume in a appropriate way and in the right amount of time.

New era of Chinatown

New businesses, new customers, and cleanup efforts have helped the neighborhood thrive during and economic downturn

In recently years, as everyone has to face the one of the worst economic crisis in decades, many companies have to close down and the increasing rate of unemployed have grown up intensively in every industry around the world. However, consumer products seem to be less sensitive on economic crisis especially in food industry. This is because no matter what the economic situation is, consumer products are considered necessary for surviving.

During the past years, the new face of young professionals trend to invest specially in food industry as a small shop around Chinatown, Beach streets, and Washington streets. Moreover, due to the escalating in the demand from the new customers who live as a neighborhood around those streets, this is the best opportunity to set up their own business to react the demand which increasing day by day such as A Taiwanese bakery, Vietnamese sandwich shop and Malaysian restaurant. Furthermore, according to Friedman said reasonable rent prices are one of the best chance, which bestead directly to the new investors and not easy to deny.

Many shops also offer their own individual characteristic and adapted some food to suitable with European style. According to Lee Wang who launches Taiwanese bakery said that he also blended a Chinese-style and a European-style together to against his rivals and attract the customers for example he explained that he uses the Chinese-style sponge cake for making Black forest in European version.

On the other hands, the booming of small shop neighborhood will provide many advantages to customers. Firstly, the variety of small shops will bring the benefit to customers to choice the best for their life. Additionally, competitive in business will be make the shop’s owners have to keep investing and developing in quality of product to against their competitors. Finally, recovery of economic crisis may become from the small community then amplify into to the country.

This change and improvement of Chinatown not only maintains the recent customers, but also attract more and more new customers. I think new young professionals would expand the target customer of Chinatown to be more young people. They will know what the young customers want. Besides quality food or product, the atmosphere is another factor to be concerned. The clean street and neighborhood would help improve an overall image of Chinatown. In the future, the perception of Chinatown is going to be changed; it is not only the market people go to buy stuff, but also another venue that people meet up and hang out.

Weekend business

The weekend business this week, Jeff Sommer with Catherine Rampell and Jack Healy had talked mainly about unemployment rate in the United States at this time. Then, Jeff, Tim O’Brien and Brooks Barnes went over Hollywood hotels; Randall Stross on digital book piracy; Gretchen Morgenson on the true price of bailouts; and Paul Lim on the limits of cost-cutting. But the topics that attract my attention are about the unemployment rate and the digital book piracy.

The employment bureau of the United States announced that the unemployment rate has been increasing to 9.8 and continues to trend up. At this rate, it is doubled from the start of economic recession in 2007. Almost every industry, especially manufacturing, constructing and financial, has been affected from the economic situation. The number of unemployment in both constructing and manufacturing industry has been climbing steadily during this year. On the other hand, there is an increasing demand for labor in service sector and healthcare education, with the largest increase occurring in ambulatory health care services. Catherine said that we might overestimate about the job we had. We are too optimistic about the job loss. The stimulus package launched by government is not sufficient to solve this major issue. Many people might wonder that why government doesn’t solve this problem by providing supported or temporally jobs for those unemployed. This is impossible since in economic recession period, many people lost their job and this makes government generate lower income tax revenue. That’s why the government doesn’t have enough budgets for stimulating the economy by hiring a number of people.

In Thailand, the unemployment rate has been increasing as well. There are an enormous number of people losing their job. Many businesses have to shut down their company and go bankruptcy as a result of economic recession this time. It is hard and harder to find a job at this time. Taking me as an example, I just graduated from the university this year and lots of my friend changes their mind to continue their master instead of finding the job. Since they know that it is wasting time keep finding job at this time because there won’t be any job left for them. Many big companies cut their budget for hiring new employee. Instead, they have increased the quota for internship worker during the busy time in order to reduce their cost. This could be proven that the economic rescission has stimulated the unemployment rate all over the world.

Another topic that grasps my attention is about the digital book piracy. In the business world nowadays, the internet is gaining more and more important role. There is a dramatically increasing number of e-business transactions. Digital book is one thing that becomes popular at this time. In the electronic world, I think it is hard to control over the violation of intellectual property. Many people might feel that it is more convenient for them to get a digital book instead but I’m sure that there is still a large amount of people who fond of reading the physical book. From my point of view, I don’t think the piracy of digital book is going to affect the physical one a lot. However, the author and publisher still need to protect the right of their intellectual property by the way.

China...the great and powerful country

China just celebrated their nation’s 60th anniversary last week. The celebration is aiming to show its citizens and the world how China is powerful nowadays. There are military parades showing the hi-technology military weapons, tanks and missiles. There are four highlighting floats in this parade. First one is about the Chinese province’s charm. The second float carrying fish and a sheaf of wheat proclaimed China’s ability to feed itself. The third one is holding a huge space capsule, celebrated China’s space program and the last one depicted the bullet trains that are beginning to link a few large cities.

China is the world most populous country and fastest growing country at this time. The economy of China is huge and expanding rapidly. Many economists predict that China is going to be the biggest economy in the world in this century. After economic reform, more independence has been granted to business enterprises. This led to the creation of a number of various types of privately held enterprises within the services sector, as well as the light manufacturing sectors. In addition, Government also opens more to Foreign Direct Investment and these help boosting and expanding its economy. China is seems to be both largest producer and consumer in the world. It is the main trade partners with many countries. That is why its economy has a huge effect on the world economic situation.

Many foreign direct investments have been flowing into China since they could get benefits from government’s policies aiming to attract FDI and also benefit from low-wage rate of labor. China could be considered one of business center in the world making its language and currency become very important. Due to its enormous landscape and great amount of its population, China could produce a variety of product as much as necessary for its domestic consumption and still has ability to producing and serving to other countries. This can reflect that China has an ability to feed itself as it implies from the parade.

Moreover, China just official established its Space program recently showing that China also emphasizes on the technology development as well as space development. It reached another milestone for the country in developing space technology. It could be said that china’s space program is speeding along helping establish country as technological power. This space program would aid the nation economically by helping to create technological breakthroughs that may someday be applied to computers or other digital equipment.

In addition, China keeps improving its infrastructure within its country in order to improve living standard of its citizens as well as attract foreign direct investment. Bullet train linking between many major cities has been constructing and once completed, it is going to be largest, fastest, and most technologically sophisticated in the world.

As u can see, China has been improving it country through many aspects at the same time. That’s why it is not surprising to me that China is going to be the most powerful country in the world competing with the United States.

Downloading MP3...an illegal thing people keep doing

When u start asking about what is right and what is wrong, you have to know first what the determination for that answer is. This question is just like a human perception of something. Each person has his own perception so something is right for one person might be wrong for others. The determination is depending on the background of that person; there are many factors that could affect human perception such as Religion, culture or belief.

For religion, every religion ultimately teaches people to be a good people and behave ethically even though they have different language and methods of teaching. Killing people are considered both unethical and very illegal thing. This is a heavy issue for every countries and religions. But it seems to be different for a violation of intellectual property such as downloading MP3 from the internet for free. Although we know that it is illegal and unethical but this looks like a minor illegal thing comparing to other illegal issues. People normally concern about their benefit first when they decide to do anything. The advantages of downloading MP3 from the internet could be out weight a feeling of guilty doing an insignificant illegal and unethical thing like this.

Due to the globalization era, Internet becomes the one of essential thing in human life. People change their behavior by using more Internets during daily life such as check mail, search engine and shopping, etc. As a result, Internet help they safe their time for example, they can buy anything on Internet such as food, clothes or music. This effect will make any company also change their marketing strategy by providing e-shopping to suit with their target market’s behavior. However, Internet also has a drawback into the market. The company must concerns about an illegal download especially mp3 or movie. The most important factor for illegal download from Internet is discharge or free.

Sharing mp3 file become popular among of teenagers. They exchange the songs to their friends via email or Internet because they don’t want to spend their money on this and it is so easy to share a file. Even some company try to set the block system when customer buy a song from them for example, iTunes have a key lock in each songs that they provide, as customers can add to its iPod only 3 times per song. But it seems to be useless to protect or reduce this action. Technology has developed day by day; it will provide the two-way effects compose of advantage and disadvantage.

Some of programs also offer the advance in technology to hack a song from the website such as YouTube. The program will hack a song from website and allow people to translate into many formats such as mp3, avi, mp4. These factors would help encouraging people for downloading MP3 from the internet.

Moreover, there is not a serious legal penalty in many countries so people don’t be afraid doing this illegal action. Hence, I and many people still keep downloading MP3 and other files from the internet.