Groupon Launches deal site Gaopeng.com in China 腾讯Groupon合资高朋网正式上线

Groupon has aunched its China site at GaoPeng

Groupon Inc., owner of the biggest coupon website, said it started an online group-buying service in China as consumers in the world’s fastest-growing major economy increase spending over the Internet.

The Gaopeng.com website will initially cover Beijing and Shanghai before expanding to other major Chinese cities, Chicago-based Groupon said in an e-mailed statement today. Tencent Holdings Ltd., China’s biggest Internet company, and Yunfeng Capital, a private equity fund started by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma, are other investors in Gaopeng, according to the statement, which didn’t provide details of the shareholding.

China had almost 19 million group-buying users at the end of 2010, according to government statistics.

Groupon’s Gaopeng.com will face competition in attracting Internet shoppers from Chinese group-buying services including Lashou.com, Meituan.com and Manzuo.com. Taobao, China’s largest consumer e-commerce website, launched a group-buying website last year and popular portal websites such as Tencent’s QQ and Sohu.com have also launched group-buying websites. Online retail sales in China almost doubled last year to 513.1 billion yuan ($78 billion) and will probably double again in the next two years to 1 trillion yuan, Xinhua News Agency reported Jan. 18.

Groupon, which rejected a $6 billion takeover bid from Google Inc. in December, plans to increase the number of employees at its China venture to 1,000 in three months from 120 staff, Danny Yeung, head of its Hong Kong unit, said Feb. 10.

Alibaba Group, controlled by Ma, is China’s biggest e- commerce company. The Hangzhou, eastern China-based company’s Alibaba.com Ltd. unit last week said David Wei resigned as Chief Executive Officer after an internal probe found more than 2,300 vendors used its website to defraud global buyers.

Groupon腾讯合作中国网站高朋今日正式上线

高朋留下的联系地址正是腾讯原深圳总部的所在地

由团购网站鼻祖，全球最大团购网站Groupon与腾讯合资，面向中国市场的团购网站高朋网 (gaopeng.com)今天正式上线。目前该网站仅开放邮箱注册，还未提供具体团购活动。

2月15日高朋曾经短暂上线后存在不到24小时就立刻无法访问，有媒体引述消息人士言论称，合作网站突然下线问题可能出现在沟通环节上：负责 Groupon在华业务拓展的德籍负责人期望早点亮相做出业绩，而腾讯方面则希望等待更好时机，据说双方高层当时已经紧急会见协商。

另有消息称，15日的页面上线有可能是工程师的一次“误操作”。

值得注意的是，15日上线的页面下的ICP信息注册地为北京，今日上线的新页面ICP注册地已经变为深圳，ICP注册号“粤B2-20100347”与腾讯旗下的小游戏网站3366.com一致。而且在联系我们一栏中所留的“深圳市南山区高新南一路飞亚达科技大厦”正是腾讯原深圳总部的所在地。

另外，高朋经营方深圳市世纪天游科技有限公司也首次曝光。工商登记信息显示，深圳市世纪天游科技有限公司由腾讯互动娱乐系统人力资源总监唐毅斌及腾讯高级副总裁奚丹各出资500万元成立，唐毅斌担任总经理及执行董事，奚丹担任监事。

分析人士认为，尽管Groupon与腾讯出资各半建立新公司，但是之前在运营管理上则几乎全部由德国方面说了算。此次在网站细节上的变化可以看出，腾讯已经在一定程度上获得了高朋的主导权。

高朋CEO欧阳云发内部邮件：员工规模已达300人

由Groupon、腾讯产业共赢基金和云锋基金共同出资成立的高朋网 (gaopeng.com)今日接受用户邮件注册，随后高朋网CEO欧阳云发布内部邮件，透露一个月时间内员工规模已达300人。

以下为邮件全文：

各位高朋的兄弟姐妹们，

今天，2011年2月28日，是值得所有高朋人铭记的日子，因为今天是高朋诞生的日子！

在我在周末的深夜写这封信的时候，办公室还是与工作日一样忙碌。年轻、朝气、充满热情和笑容的身影，从我身边匆匆走过。一个多月的时间里，高朋 人从零开始，茁壮成长为今天三百多人规模的生力军。一个多月的时间里，我们从狭窄的临时办公室，搬到了今天宽敞明亮的写字楼。一个月的时间里，我们在业务 的各个方面都取得了非凡的进展！一个多月的时间里，高朋这个还未出生的婴儿在外界引起了太多的关注和猜测，高朋人也因此有过困惑，有过误解，有过委屈，甚 至有过泪水。一个多月的时间不长，只是弹指一挥间，但这些在创业初期大家一起度过的日日夜夜，这些我们用强大的凝聚力克服的困难和收获的成绩，是每一个高 朋人智慧和汗水的结晶，也是每一个高朋人都将引以为自豪的人生经历！ 大家辛苦了！

高朋呱呱坠地的这一天，我们也感到了更多沉甸甸的责任。高朋是一家由Groupon，腾讯产业共赢基金和云峰基金共同投资的本土的团购网站。高 朋的身上，既有全球团购鼻祖的基因，又流淌着对中国互联网民最深刻洞察的血液；我们被众目注视，我们被寄予厚望。我们同时又要牢记：高朋是一家创业公司， 像所有的创业公司一样，我们前进的路上会有艰难险阻，会有风雨需要经历，会有挫折需要品尝。但是千里之行，始于足下，只要我们一步一个脚印地走下去，谦虚 谨慎，在自己的本职工作上更上一层楼，我们就会很快在风雨之后见到彩虹！

让我们继续发扬高朋人在短短时间内建立的开放、平等、高效和责任的文化。精英的高朋人，来自五湖四海，来自各行各业，出生在不同的年代。在高 朋，国籍和文化的差异不是障碍，而是互相学习和进步的源泉：我看到来自遥远的南美洲的外籍员工，与本土的销售经理之间，从不会发音对方的名字到很快变成称 兄道弟的好朋友。在高朋，没有官僚作风和过多的层级，就像我们的办公室里没有隔断的办公空间，涌动着平等和透明的音符。在高朋，也不存在年龄的代沟，因为 60后、70后的高朋人与80后一样青春、活跃和新潮J 高效的执行力更是高朋与生俱来的DNA，需要高朋人一刻也不能松懈地保持和发扬。高朋人的责任感，则不只是体现在自己的本职工作，而是有更高的境界：从离 开办公室时关一下隔壁的灯，到大胆提出自己对公司发展的创意，到对目之所及的错误的不容忍，还有对兄弟部门的无私援助。

让我们举杯庆祝高朋的诞生；这个婴儿从蹒跚学步到长大成人，需要我们所有人共同的呵护。让我们马上投入到为高朋团购业务上线的准备工作之中！

再次谢谢你为高朋诞生所付出的辛勤工作！

我们自豪，我们是高朋人！

欧阳

2011年2月28日

Chinese Man Lives With a knife in His Head for Four Years

Chinese man had knife blade stuck in his head for four years. X-ray images show the knife resting behind the man's throat.

Chinese surgeons have removed a rusty, four-inch knife from the skull of a man who claimed it had been stuck in there for four years.

Li Fu, 37, had been suffering severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort.

An official at Yuxi City People’s Hospital in Yunnan Province said that Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without him realizing it.

Despite headaches, Stabbing victim Said he Was unaware of broken-off blade

“As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears,” Li told Chinese state TV. “It has been four years already.”

The rusty blade fortunately did not touch the brain artery nor facial nerves, keeping him narrowly alive.

“A miracle of miracles: A knife pierced his skull and stayed in the nerve and vascular intensive area,” said neurosurgeon Luo Zhiwei of the People’s Hospital. The blade entered through his right lower jaw, went past his tongue, nasopharynx and muscles and came to a rest with the tip almost touching his brain.

The four-inch rusty blade doctors removed from Li Fu's head

Doctors carried out a four-hour operation from 8:30 am to take out the 10-centimeter-long (4- inch), 1.8-centimeter-wide and 0.24-centimeter-thick blade.

“We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head,” Xu Wen, an official at the hospital, told Chinese state TV.

While shocking, Li’s case is far from unusual.

In fact, one of Li’s countrymen once had to have a pair of scissors removed from his esophagus two years ago.

In April 2009, a Colorado man coughed up a nail that had been stuck up his nose for three decades.

Also in 2009, a 2-year-old Brazilian boy was found living with 50 sewing needles lodged throughout his body.

And back in 2004, doctors in France found 350 coins in a man’s stomach.

The incident serves as a reminder that people can and do survive head trauma with little or no disability.

这把长达10cm的断刀由他的右下颌处插入，依次穿过他的舌根、鼻咽、肌肉，最后尖端插在了脑上

云南一男子颅内“藏”刀4年

云南一男子李福（化名）4年前与抢劫他的歹徒搏斗时，颅内被插入一把断刀。4年来，他头痛不止、口腔流血，吃饭、说话逐渐出现困难。日前，云南省玉溪市人民医院通过艰难、缜密的手术终于把这把断刀完整地取了出来。

2006年9月21日，李福在元江到甘庄的路途中，与抢劫他的3个劫匪展开了激烈搏斗。混乱的打斗让李福全身受了大大小小的伤，可他没有意识到，一把断刀已由右侧外耳道插入头部。事后李福到医院检查、处理伤口时，受当地卫生医疗技术和器材的限制，医生仅为他右侧外耳道的伤口进行了清创缝合。此后4年间，李福经常会莫名其妙的头痛，口腔流血，口臭越来越严重，但他一直以为身体有炎症，买一些消炎药来吃。

今年1月28日，李福疼痛难当来到玉溪市人民医院神经外科就诊。初步检查后，医生们都惊呆了：一个长约10厘米、宽1．8厘米、厚2．4毫米的匕形金属异物“藏”于李福颅底、咽喉部颈侧部。幸运的是，异物位于通过咽、口腔等有通道的部位，炎症所产生的异物能从这些部位排除，一定程度上避免了病情的恶化。而且异物在进入李福的头内时，避开了面部主要的血管和神经，让他奇迹般地存活下来。

Apple supplier report reveals grim truths behind gadgets

Apple’s just-released progress report on the labor-related practices of its overseas parts suppliers reveals grim truths behind the making of such popular gadgets as the iPad and iPhone–including worker poisonings, child labor violations, and 60-plus-hour work weeks.

Apple supplier report details labor and safety woes

The Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report (A pdf of the full report is available here), released just weeks after Apple logged record profits of $6 billion, marks the first time the company has officially acknowledged that 137 workers “suffered adverse health effects” at Wintek’s Suzhou factory in China (which supplies parts to Apple and Nokia) because of exposure to n-hexane, a toxic chemical in cleaning agents.

A report last year in the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper said at least 62 Suzhou workers had been hospitalized, while Wintek (联建科技) claimed that a factory death was the result of a heart attack, not n-hexane exposure. At that time, Nokia issued a statement denying that n-hexane was used on its production lines, while Apple declined to comment at all. (In its report, Apple now blames a reconfiguration of Wintek’s operations that failed to include changing the factory’s ventilation system.)

Long-term, high-level exposure to n-hexane can damage the peripheral nervous system and eventually the spinal cord, leading to weak and atrophied muscles, male infertility, and even paralysis. The chemical is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency owing not only to potential carcinogenic properties but also to environmental concerns. Apple says it will conduct a total re-audit of Wintek’s facility in 2011.

The Apple report also reveals that only 32 percent of audited facilities comply with the company’s maximum 60-hour, 6-day work week; in 2009, compliance was at 46 percent. In the U.S., 60-hour work weeks were deemed excessive in the 1880s, when factory workers pushed for 8-hour work days, according to a Business Week report. More recently, Apple has called 60-plus-hour work weeks “excessive” but 60-hour work weeks “normal,” according to this 2006 BBC report, while The New York Times found in 2007 that factories in China supplying corporations such as Wal-Mart, Disney, and Dell were forcing employees to work 16-hour days on fast-moving assembly lines.

Apple finds child labor in supplier report. A total of 91 workers under the age of 16 had been hired in 10 facilities

Meanwhile, Apple’s report finds that only 57 percent of facilities complied with Apple’s code on preventing working injuries, and less than 70 percent met standards on air emissions; environmental permits and reporting; and managing hazardous substances. The report also acknowledges finding 91 children working at 10 facilities, though the nearly nine-fold jump from the previous year’s findings of 11 children at 3 workplaces could be due to more robust facilities auditing. (After auditing 102 facilities in 2009, Apple audited 127 in 2010, many for the first time.)

Apple rather vaguely describes how it is addressing these issues, saying with regard to n-hexane that it is working to improve “poor management systems for Environmental Health and Safety.” As for child labor, Apple says it has “required the suppliers to support the young workers’ return to school and to improve their management systems–such as labor recruitment practices and age-verification procedures–to prevent recurrences.”

And finally, Apple reports that it is “disturbed and deeply saddened” by the 13 suicides or attempted suicides at Foxconn Technology’s Shenzhen factory over the course of five months. The first suicide involved a man who worked 286 hours the month prior, including 112 overtime hours (three times the legal limit), for about $1 an hour (including the higher overtime pay). That amounted to less than $300 over the course of the month–not quite enough to buy a 32GB iPhone 4. (Americans find the iPhone more affordable; within three days of launching the iPhone 4, Apple sold 1.7 million.) Foxconn (富士康科技集團), for its part, has since increased factory wages by 30 percent.

According to the report, after Apple COO Tim Cook and other executives traveled to the factory in June 2010, Apple asked for an independent review of conditions by suicide prevention experts. By August, Foxconn had hired psychological counselors, set up a 24-hour care center, and (rather morbidly) affixed large nets to the buildings to “prevent impulsive suicides.”

苹果首次公开承认在华“毒工厂”事件

苹果公司承认137名中国供应商员工因污染致残

苹果IPad、Iphone正在中国热卖，但137名苹果中国供应商员工，却因暴露在正己烷环境，健康遭受不利影响。苹果公司15日发布2010年的供应链管理报告，首次公开承认中国供应链致残员工。

回放

环保组织质疑苹果

2010年，有36家国内环保组织为促进IT产业解决污染问题，与29个IT品牌进行多轮沟通。其中，《IT行业重金属污染调研报告（第四期）苹果特 刊》，对苹果的供应链职业安全、供应链环境保护、供应链员工权益和尊严提出质疑，敦促苹果公司公布供应链信息，对苏州联建科技公司和运恒五金公司员工的正 己烷中毒做出回应。

此前，苹果公司一直采取回避策略。

表态

苹果承认有“毒”

2月15日，苹果公司公布了2010年供应商责任进展报告，首次做出回应。

这份供应商责任进展报告长达25页，专门用一章对于正己烷的使用进行说明：“2010年，我们了解到，在苹果公司供应商胜华科技苏州工厂（即联建科技）， 有137名工人因暴露于正己烷环境，健康遭受不利影响……我们要求胜华科技停止使用正己烷，并提供证据证明已经将该化学品从生产线上撤下。还要求他们修复 通风系统。自采取上述措施以来，再无工人因化学品暴露受到损害。”

与此同时，苹果公司表示，已查实所有受到影响的员工均已成功得到治疗，“我们会继续检查工人们的病历，直到他们完全康复。胜华电子已按照中国法律的要求为患病工人和康复期的工人支付了医药费和伙食费，补发了工资。137名工人中的大部分已经返回该工厂工作。”

进展

部分员工被迫离职

然而记者了解到的最新情况，与苹果报告仍有出入。137名工人中，部分员工正在遭受被迫离职的压力。

北京晨报记者昨晚电话采访了联建科技受害员工贾景川和胡志勇。贾景川介绍说，2月11日中午11时，他接到公司专门负责联建中毒员工主管的电话，得知鉴定结果已经下来了，职业病九级。但与此同时，该主管问他什么时间离职，因为“不离职得不到公司的赔偿”。贾景川2007年5月进入联建科技，2009年8月查出正己烷中毒入住苏州市五院治疗。出院至今，手脚出汗、麻木，晚上腿痛、抽筋等症状仍在出现。

根据中华人民共和国职业病防治法，用人单位不得清退受害员工。贾景川坚持要在公司继续工作：“我害怕我的病情继续恶化，如果现在离开公司，自己的身体健康得不到任何保障。”胡志勇则被鉴定为十级伤残，他也表示，此前公司给予一些治疗，认为他已经治愈，但他并不想离职。他也坦诚，目前公司工作环境有所改善，他们工作一段时间后，可到屋外通风休息。

内幕

网友曝公司隐瞒实情

北京晨报记者注意到，2009年8月3日，联建科技被网名为烟雨江南桥畔的网友在百度上曝出公司“私自拿走个人体检报告”，帖子称：“公司出现一系列的 事情让人感到恐慌，正己烷中毒事件接二连三。出于对自己身体考虑，我们个人(自费——记者注)去体检了，结果去拿体检单的时候竟被公司取走。”

8月5日22时，一名“热心网友”跟帖称：“自模五贴合站采用正己烷药剂作业以来，已经有5名员工发生正己烷中毒事件……7月20日，模五破天 荒地把所有回风口、风淋门都打开了，还在短时间内收取了所有的正己烷，快速地藏入了不为人知的地方。正当员工诧异的时候，传来了‘卫生局和劳动局来检查 了’的消息，这时员工才知道正己烷是有毒的。”

受害员工称苹果早就知情

联建科技受害员工贾景川昨天告诉新京报记者，苹果公司对供应商违规使用正己烷早就知情。“苹果公司对供应商的工艺、规格都有严格要求，供应商只是苹果 公司的执行者。”贾景川表示，“苹果每三个月，会派出督导人员下工厂进行常规检查，对工艺进行评估。代工厂任何一项工艺变化，都要经过苹果同意。”

据贾景川介绍，从2008年7月起，联建科技要求员工使用正己烷，2009年5月陆续有员工出现病症，但公司一直不承认。“后来我们的车间被称 为魔鬼车间，里面的员工几乎都出现问题。我是2009年9月确诊的，医生告诉我如果不住院，3个月后就会瘫痪。”目前，贾景川被定为9级伤残。

贾景川说，他一个月的工资1500元，现在公司要求离职才能拿到补偿金，每个人的补偿金额不同，他大概能拿到8万元。“但我并没有康复，而且这种病很容易反复。我担心以后会失去劳动能力，那后半生怎么办。”

北京盈科律师事务所刘永斌律师表示，建议员工去做职业病鉴定。根据《职业病防治法》的相关规定，用人单位不得清退受害员工，员工可以得到长期的保障。

心声

员工希望苹果道歉

昨天，贾景川不无悲戚地告诉记者：“现在屋外的温度在零下，但我手心里还在冒汗，这说明正己烷的影响还在继续。”贾景川称：“我们希望苹果公司站出来，向我们正式道歉，并且和联建科技一起解决后续问题。”

名词解释

何为正己烷

正己烷是一种用于清洁某些制造工序使用的零部件的化学品，挥发快，因此有供货商让员工使用它来清洁苹果产品上的苹果标志。但是这种化学品具有较强的毒性。

Shaolin Temple builds commerical empire

Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the Shaolin temple in the central province of Henan, was awarded an SUV worth 1 million Yuan (US$150, 000) for his contributions to the local tourist industry in 2006

China’s famed Shaolin Temple has set up over 40 companies overseas as it hopes to spread Buddhist-inspired martial arts around the globe, state press reported.

But the announcement of a vast business plan to send the temple’s famed warrior monks abroad has been met with criticism over the commercialisation of Buddhism, the Global Times said on Monday.

NBA superstar center Shaquille O'Neal poses with Abbot Shi Yongxin during his promotional tour to the Shaolin Temple in Henan province in 2009

“We currently operate over 40 companies in cities across the world, such as Berlin and London,” the paper quoted Shi Yongxin, the temple’s 30th abbot, as saying at the 8th cultural industry forum at Peking University Saturday.

“The Shaolin Temple is also participating in the operation of some other companies related to the same industry,” he said, adding that the companies have bought land and property overseas.

As the first head of state to visit Shaolin temple, Russian then-President Vladimir Putin received a grand welcome by Abbot Shi Yongxin in 2006

Shi, the first Chinese monk to earn a master’s degree in business administration, denied the businesses were profit-motivated, insisting that the temple was fulfilling an overseas infatuation with “Shaolin culture”, it said.

The temple, which was established in 495 AD, is known as the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and Chinese kung fu.

Shaolin Temple in central China's Henan Province is the birthplace of Chinese kung fu

Shaolin warrior monks have held legendary status for centuries throughout Asia, while over the last 50 years films and television have spread their reputation worldwide.

Besides teaching martial arts around the world, the Shaolin centres also include Zen meditation workshops and Chinese language training, Shi said.

The temple has nearly 130 martial arts clubs in the United States alone, while Shaolin monks are already capable of teaching in English, German and Spanish, he said.

Shaolin Temple launched its first overseas Shaolin Kung Fu Cultural Center in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 2004

Shi, known as the “CEO of Shaolin” since taking over the temple a decade ago, has developed commercial ventures such as kung fu shows, film production and online merchandise sales. He established Warrior Monks Group to perform in 1989. He set up Henan Shaolinsi Television Co in 1997 and Shaolin Temple Industrial Development Company in 1998. His was the first Buddhist temple to open a website.

The movie Shaolin (新少林寺) started filming in Shaolin Temple On October, 22, 2009. Martial monks tried to obstruct the passage of reporters.

Last year he denied the temple planned to participate in an initial public offering with a Hong Kong travel company, while a Beijing court turned down an application to put a Shaolin trademark on consumer goods like instant noodles.

Shi’s business efforts have been widely criticised as a naked attempt to commercialise Buddhism, the report said.

“To many people, a temple is a reclusive place outside the bustles of the material world,” but “when a monk like Shi travels frequently by plane to promote his businesses, secular society cannot keep up,” the paper said in an editorial.

“While spreading ideas has been the traditional theme of most religions, Shaolin’s ventures abroad also help China spread its traditional culture and thinking, and gain more understanding through a civil channel.”

释永信：少林寺海外买地建房 开办40余家公司

2006年河南登封奖励少林寺方丈释永信价值100多万的豪华越野车，表彰他为旅游做出贡献

嵩山少林寺方丈释永信透露说，少林寺(在国内)都不是法人单位，媒体却在说我们商业化，但少林寺在伦敦柏林等地直接办了40多家公司。

柏林伦敦等地开办公司

据《新京报》报道，在北京大学文化产业研究院举行的“第八届文化产业新年论坛”上发表演讲时，释永信表示，少林寺目前发展的重点是在海外，“在国内没有做太多，重点主要在海外，我们的武僧和法师都用英语、德语、西班牙语在当地传播，海外发展壮大了，才能在国内有话语权。”

据他透露，目前少林寺在柏林、伦敦等地直接办了40多家公司，另外还间接办了一些公司。释永信还表示，少林寺的海外联系还包括举行剧目，“不到三年就在29个国家的50个城市演出，但不做一般性商业演出。”

他在昨天的演讲中透露说，少林寺直接办的公司(海外中心)就是要融入当地，每个地方都有少林寺的僧人任教，其中包括禅修、功夫、语言等。譬如在美国就有130多家武馆。“间接办的公司也不少”，释永信介绍说，各大洲都有少林寺的联谊会，当地申请了几百家与联谊会有关的公司，少林寺也认可了不少。

释永信定制云锦袈裟 仅金线就价值5万元

少林寺海外买地建房

但释永信也解释说，少林寺最初在海外的发展都是先花几万美元在当地租房子，收徒弟，最多的场地能收到几千人次，“有点钱就希望在那里按揭买房，再有点钱就买地建房子，我们就是要融入海外，这也不能算少林寺资产。”

侧重在海外发展的释永信感觉到，国外对佛教的研究重视程度超过了中国。有一次在美国国会图书馆，馆方向释永信展示了明代清代的中国佛教文献，还向释永信展示了少林寺的拓片。

释永信还表示，少林寺促进了河南登封第三产业的发展，“每年200万游客，其中包括15万境外游客，周围有60多家武校，其中有6万多学生”，也参与了电影、电视的拍摄和一些图书的出版，“这可能与文化产业有点相关。”

普京与方丈释永信合影。2006年3月，“武林高手”、时任俄罗斯总统普京参观少林寺，他是第一个到少林寺参观的在任外国元首

少林寺否认海外开40家公司 澄清:在弘扬”国粹”

这两天，关于《释永信称少林寺在海外开办40余家公司》和《少林总经理否认“少林寺海外开办40家公司”》的两篇新闻报道，让嵩山少林寺和释永信方丈再次成为舆论焦点。真相到底如何？

不是公司是文化中心

针对社会上热传的海外开办公司一事，少林无形资产管理有限公司总经理钱大梁说，关于少林寺海外40家公司的报道是一种误读和误导。

由于海外的法人机构登记体系与中国大陆多有不同，在中国，“有限公司”在工商局登记，公益类的“基金会”则在民政部门登记注册。但海外许多国家，二者统一使用“有限公司”作为机构“后缀”，少林文化基金会在当地自然要注册成为“少林文化基金会有限公司”，现在盛传的40家公司在国内只是叫做文化交流中心。钱大梁说：“少林寺从来没有说是公司，简单说它就是文化中心。”

2008年方丈释永信接受李湘采访时称少林寺永不上市

部分房产已付款买下

关于少林寺在海外是否有房产，钱大梁回应说，这种所谓的房产有很多种不同方式。“有些是别人捐赠的，有一种是别人租的房子，有些是政府提供给你的，这种文化别人接受了，逐渐生根，付款就买下来了。”钱大梁说。

钱大梁认为，像少林寺、少林文化这些有代表的中国传统文化、民族文化在向海外发展过程中，有文化产业的发展，更多的是一种文化的传承，可现在很多人是简单地把文化产业和文化传承相互替代。

Coolest Job Opening – 12 global finalists vie for chance to be Panda Ambassador

Global competition for panda keepers enters final round!!!

Twelve semi-finalists have begun training for one of the world’s most coveted jobs – “pambassador” (panda ambassador) – at a research base in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

Chriszelda Pieterse, a finalist hoping to become a "pambassador", looks for Zhenzhen, a star panda, during the training program in Chengdu, China

Hailing from Sweden, South Africa, Japan, the United States and other countries, the finalists are the lucky few remaining from a pool of more than 60,000 hopefuls who had applied for the rare chance to work as a panda keeper for one month.

They will be trained on how to feed the pandas, interact with cubs, and monitor their growth.

Candidate Annie-Danielle Grenier, who hails from Canada, said that she likes the new task and feels completely homely. “I love to cook for my family and friends, and it’s not much different cooking for pandas. The ingredients are different but it’s exactly the same, and I cook with love when I cook for my family and it’s the same for the pandas”.

“It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to actually come here to work with pandas. This is like the most amazing experience I ever had” said Ashley Robertson from Alabama of the United States.

The six winners of the competition, organized by the base and conservation group WWF, will be chosen on September 29 based on how well they look after the pandas, understand conservation, and how good their communication skills are.

'Pambassadors' to Work for Caring Pandas

They will then spend a month working as panda keepers in Chengdu, witnessing the births of several baby pandas, blogging about their experiences (www.pandahome.com) to help raise awareness of the endangered animal’s plight.

As part of their ambassadorial role, Pambassadors will keep an Internet blog about their experiences.

Bird’s Nest tightrope walker sets record

A Chinese tightrope walker Adili Wuxor secures a place in the record books for longest time walking on a wire, suspended high in the National Stadium in Beijing (aka Bird’s Nest stadium). In order to break the record, Adili had lived in a 9-square-meter cabin on the roof of the Bird’s Nest stadium during the past 60 days, walking five hours per day on the 3cm thick steel cables, which were hanging a perilous 60m in the air.

But his Guinness world record claimed last week was not actually recognized by the London-based Guinness World Records. Instead, the certificate he so proudly received came from Shanghai Great World, which is not part of Guinness World Records.

Guinness said the record was held by Jorge Ojeda-Guzman of the U.S. state of Florida, who spent 205 days on a wire 11 meters (36 ft) long and 10.7 meters (35 ft) above ground between January 1 and July 25, 1993.

The Bird’s Nest was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies and the track and field events for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Wuxor, an ethnic Uighur from the far western region of Xinjiang, says he’s ready to take on a new challenge in October: to walk on a tightrope from an island off the southern city of Xiamen to the shore.

Shanghai unveils ‘stronger’ version of Wall Street charging bull

Italian-US artist Arturo Di Modica's Charging Bull statue is seen at the Bund after its unveiling in Shanghai

Shanghai unveiled a new landmark on its Bund waterfront over the weekend, a bronze bull sculpture inspired by Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” representing China’s rising financial ambitions.

American artist Arturo Di Modica — the sculptor behind the New York bull who also created its Shanghai sibling — was at the unveiling on Saturday.

The "Charging Bull" statue, sometimes called the Wall Street Bull by Arturo Di Modica in New York

At 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) tall and 2.5 tons (2.7 tons), the Shanghai sculpture was the same size as the Wall Street version, but “redder, younger and stronger, It’s a mixture of Western and Chinese cultures,” said Di Modica, adding he was inspired by both the “Charging Bull” and the Chinese Zodiac’s ox.

The animal’s confident stance represented a bullish and prosperous future for the rising financial center, he said.

The Shanghai officials who commissioned the sculpture had previously said they wanted their bull to weigh twice as much the one on Wall Street.

The city requested a bull that was younger and stronger than New York City’s bull to symbolize “the energy of Shanghai’s economy, that’s why the head of the Bund’s bull looks up while the Wall Street Bull looks downward,”said the head of Huangpu district

In the early 20th century, the neo-classical buildings along the Bund were known as the “Wall Street of Asia” and giants born there include the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., or HSBC, and insurers American International Group, or AIG.

Visitor’s Guide to The Bund: Shanghai’s Newly Opened Waterfront Landmark

“金融牛” 现身上海滩

5月15日，有着“远东华尔街”比喻的上海外滩，迎来一位特殊的“客人”――高2．5米的铜雕“外滩金融牛”。这头牛略呈红铜色，尾巴高高翘起，线条深 邃、肌肉结实，年轻、健壮，且活力四溢，体重达2.5吨。由国际著名雕塑大师阿图罗・迪・莫迪卡设计 的这尊铜牛，成了建设中的外滩金融集聚带的一个新“符号”。莫迪卡说，他特意选用了红色作为作品的基调，因为在他眼中，红色象征着中国拥有的无穷力量。莫迪卡也是著名的“华尔街公牛”的设计者。伫立在华尔街中 心的那座铜牛，20多年来默默见证着国际金融市场的风云变幻。

金融牛“扎根”于面积近5000平方米的上海外滩金融广场，在这里，除了新添“金融牛”这一文化符号外，未来还 将设立金融信息屏，发布世界各地主要金融市场的信息。此外，周围2.6平方公里区域正发起新一轮吸“金”攻势，打造外滩“金融集聚带”，以重塑外滩金融功 能、再现昔日“远东第一金融街”风采。

Tibetan Mastiff: New Must-Have Luxury for China’s Wealthy Elite

Tibetan Mastiff - Slobbery dog becomes latest status symbol among China's wealthy elite

China’s latest must-have luxury for the ultra-rich, to go with mansions and sports cars, is a large, slobbery dog with massive amounts of hair best known for herding sheep and guarding Buddhist monasteries in Tibet. Tibetan Mastiffs (also known as Do-khyi) are large and fierce, reaching a height of up to 31 inches (80cm) and a weight of 176 lbs (80kg).

From the frozen steppes and remote monasteries of Tibet to the gated communities of China's urban rich, this guardian dog has come a long way.

Once condemned and banned as a bourgeois folly, pet ownership is booming in China, and the Tibetan mastiff  is the dog of the moment for those who want to spread their wealth beyond stocks and real estate.

You Wenfa, owner of a mastiff breeding farm on the outskirts of Beijing, saw potential profits from the enormous hounds and purchased his first dog in the early 1990s.

You currently has over 40 dogs and goes back to Tibet every year to seek prospective additions to his stock.

He also provides breeding services and charges up to 100,000 yuan ($14,650) for a session with one of his pedigrees.

“This is like a car. You drive a German Mercedes or BMW and I drive a Chinese Xiali or mini van. Everybody has their own choices,” said You.

“These dogs at the moment are a kind of choice for status and wealth,” said You, whose pure breed mastiffs can fetch up to 300,000 yuan each.

Tibetan mastiff puppies for sale sit on a car covered by a red blanket during annual China Tibetan Mastiff Expo in Beijing

“I can understand racehorses and diamonds, but I don’t understand why someone would want to pay half a million dollars for a dog, In the US, $5,000 is the upper limit for a show quality puppy.” said Martha Feltenstein, president of the American Tibetan Mastiff Association. “They have a relatively short life expectancy and are not especially rare, so it’s quite puzzling why they are fetching such a high price in China.”

In the U.S., Tibetan mastiff pups can be bought for as little as several hundred dollars, Feltenstein said.

A black Tibetan Mastiff called Yangtze River Number Two is believed to have broken the world record as the most expensive dog, having been sold to a Chinese woman for a reported $582,000 in 2009.

• The most expensive dog cost $582,000

Tibetan mastiffs hit the headlines last year when a young woman named as Ms Wang in China’s western Shaanxi province paid 4 million yuan ($582,000) for a mastiff cumbersomely named Yangtze River Number Two.

In keeping with its status the dog — 18 months old and 80cm high — arrived at its new owner’s home in stupendous style. According to local reports, a motorcade of 30 black Mercedes-Benz and other luxury cars cruised to the airport in Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province, to take delivery of Yangtze, and a throng gathered to fête the arrival of the city’s new resident after Ms Wang returned from buying it in Yushu county, Qinghai province in north-west China, home to many ethnic Tibetans and the epicenter of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake this Wednesday (April 14, 2010).

The award-winning Tibetan Mastiff "Red Lion" from Lhasa is worth $1.47 million.

• Tibetan Mastiff “Red Lion” worth $1.47 million

Yangtze however lost its top-dog status in April this year as the award-winning mastiff Red Lion was snapped up for $1.47 million (10 million yuan) after it won the grand championship at a mastiff exhibition held in Chengdu.

“I bought it at 480,000 yuan in 2009 when it was half a year old. My dog is a pure Tibetan mastiff, with its family tree confirmed by the authorities. Strong and majestic, it was spotlit among China’s 200 top mastiffs taking part in the preliminary contest,” said He Guangyin, the dog’s owner who lives in Lhasa.

“Red lion,” male, eats one kg of fresh beef and other quality food every day as it is in the growth period, He noted.

He said that 200,000 yuan is charged now for a successful breeding with his mastiff.

Among the must-haves for rich men in northeast China, the Xinhua News Agency recently said, was a young beautiful wife, a Lamborghini and a Tibetan mastiff, "the bigger and more ferocious the better."

• New status symbol

After splurging on real estate in Australia, American thoroughbreds and European designer fashions, China’s rich see the Tibetan mastiffs as a new status symbol. China is now home to an estimated 825,000 millionaires, its most in modern history, and its luxury goods market is one of the fastest growing in the world. Among the must-haves for rich men in northeast China, the official Xinhua News Agency recently said was a young beautiful wife, a Lamborghini and a Tibetan mastiff, “the bigger and more ferocious the better.”

“You could call it a local luxury brand,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, a Shanghai-based tax specialist who who compiles a popular annual list of China’s richest people. “Luxury brands are growing at phenomenal rates in China and owning a Tibetan mastiff is another channel for increasing your credibility and showing off your rich status.”

The mastiffs, themselves, look like money, resembling a lion that is a traditional symbol of good fortune.

“We want a breed of dog that is home grown, and this guardian dog is perfect because it is also a symbol of good luck for Chinese people throughout history,” said Wu Yunliang, the owner of “Warren Buffett” and nearly 20 other mastiffs. He keeps them in the northern city of Taiyuan where he owns a nursing home.

Hundreds of the hairy dogs were on hand, and owners and handlers marched the most expensive ones down catwalks during the annual China Tibetan Mastiff Expo in Beijing as though they were fashion models. Some carried the names of wealthy Americans like "Warren Buffett," while others were called "Obama" and "Son of Bush".

• Breeder standards

Potential profits from mastiff breeding are what drew Sui Huizheng, the businessman-breeder, who said he isn’t a dog lover. “I don’t touch or play with them much,” Sui said. He leaves the brushing and fluffing of his dogs to nearly a dozen handlers.

Passers-by were told only to admire the dogs from afar and not get near them because they’re hostile to strangers — all the better for protecting flocks and herders on the isolated Tibetan plateau, where they originated.

Retired track coach Ma Junren became fascinated with the mastiffs when he was training female distance runners on the Tibetan plateau in the late 1980s. Ma claimed the high-altitude training and concoctions of turtle blood and caterpillar fungus he fed the runners helped them set world records. But some of his athletes were later caught using banned performance-boosting substances. Ma retired, denying wrongdoing.

At the annual China Tibetan Mastiff Expo, he exhorted breeders to raise their standards so that China can gain entry to the World Canine Organization (Fédération Cynologique Internationale), an international federation of kennel clubs. The organization has so far kept China out over lax controls on vaccinations, several breeders said.

“I hope all our Tibetan mastiff lovers are honest. We don’t want to see thieves, criminals or cheaters around us,” Ma said.

藏獒成为中国暴富一族新宠

对中国的暴富一族来说，除了豪宅和跑车，最新的奢侈品就是以在西藏牧羊而闻名的毛茸茸、流着口水的大狗藏獒。

曾经被视为资产 阶级产物而一度遭禁的宠物饲养，如今在中国如火如荼。对那些想要在股票和房地产之外挥洒财富的人来说，藏獒正红极一时。

“我过去投资德国牧羊犬，但当前藏獒是热门”，生意人隋慧征(音)拥有约20只狗，他参加了上周末举行的第六届中国年度藏獒展览会。

数百只毛茸茸的大狗到场，狗主人和驯狗师让最昂贵的那些在秀场上亮相，仿佛它们是时装模特。一些狗起了“巴菲特”这样的美国富人的名字，其他的 还有叫“上帝”、“王子”的。他们希望得到的大奖是，饲养者愿意支付几万美元和他们的藏獒配种。隋花了4.3万美元弄到一个大展示台和一个贴满海报的摊位 来炫耀他的狗。

这种狂热似乎与其他地方的销售模式和常规相违背，尤其是对于一种以凶猛而著称的普通狗来说。“我能理解赛马和钻石，但没法理解为什么有些人想为 一只狗花上50万美元”，美国藏獒协会主席玛莎•费尔滕斯坦说，“它们相对而言寿命不长，而且并非特别稀有。所以，它们能在中国被炒到这么高的价格，令人 费解。”费尔滕斯坦说，在美国，区区几百美元就能买到藏獒。而中国的饲养者称，藏獒卖到几万美元，甚至超过10万美元。

继在澳大利亚房地产、美国顶级汽车和欧洲设计师的时装上大肆挥霍之后，中国的富人们又把藏獒当成了一个新的身份象征。中国如今拥有82.5万百 万富翁———是现代史上最多的，它的奢侈品市场是全世界增长最快之一。中国官方媒体最近报道，在中国东北富人的“必备”品中包括娇妻、兰博基尼和藏獒， “越大越好，越凶猛越好。”

“你可以称之为区域奢侈品牌”，中国富人排行榜的制造者胡润称，“奢侈品牌在中国正以惊人的速度增长，拥有一只藏獒是增强信誉和炫富的另一个渠 道。

• 女子400万买藏獒取名长江2号 30辆奔驰列队迎接

400万元对许多人来说，绝对是一个天文数字。可西安王女士，据说用400万元从青海玉树藏族自治州购买了一只藏獒。更让人惊叹的是，买主不仅空运藏獒到西 安，还吸引朋友动用30辆奔驰在机场迎接它。

王女士说，“长江二号”是后来才取的名，它原本有个好听的名字，叫“白根”，今年1岁半，是她和朋友花了很长时 间才物色到的一只原生态藏獒，是名獒“苏牧王”的后代。“金子有价獒无价”，王女士说，这次去玉树，原本是为自己的一只藏獒配种的，由于太喜欢“白根” 了，才临时决定花400万元买下了“白根”。说起如此庞大的迎接队伍，王女士说，这些迎接的朋友不少都是藏獒爱好者，大家都是自发组织起来特意迎接的。

而今年4月一条名叫“红狮”的藏獒让“长江二号”黯然失色， “红狮”在一次藏獒“选美”比赛中获得冠军，它目前的身价至少在1,000万元以上。

拉萨藏獒“红狮”勇夺双冠

• 拉萨藏獒“红狮”勇夺 “总冠 军”、“最佳狮头獒” 双冠

2010年4月3日位于拉萨市堆龙 德庆县的藏獒养殖基地的藏獒“红狮”在成都勇夺双冠。与其主人何银平说，“红狮”夺得冠军后身价猛增，它目前的身价至少在1000万以上。　　“由于体型壮硕，且处于生长期，‘红狮’每天要吃两斤的鲜牛肉，还要吃 上等饲料等食物。” 何光银说，“红狮”是一只公犬，在动物界公犬的价值比母犬更高。按照当前的市场来看，“红狮”配种成功一次可值近20万元。

“红狮”来自成都一家精品藏 獒养殖基地，2009年，何光银以48万的身价 把这头半岁的小獒带回拉萨。由于它的头看起来很像狮子头， 主人起了个“红狮”这个名字。

Fastest Ferrari (599 GTO) to debut at Beijing Auto Show

Ferrari 599 GTO tops out at 208 mph, fastest on-road Ferrari ever

The fastest road-going Ferrari in history, the 599 GTO, is set to be unveiled at the Beijing Auto  Show later this month, aimed at the company’s most exclusive customers.

It is billed as a limited edition new concept that draws inspiration and technology from the company’s experimental 599XX racer.

With a 208mph top speed and 661bhp V12 engine the GTO is capable of lapping Ferrari’s Fiorano test track in a record 1 minute 24 seconds – that beats the time set by the company’s Enzo supercar by almost a second.

Six-litre V12 engine will propel Ferrari 599 GTO from 0-60mph in 3.4 seconds

Only 599 examples of the new GTO (which stands for Gran Turismo Omologato, meaning a grand-touring car homologated — approved — for racing) will be built, with prices expected to be around $460,000.

For that customers will get a 6.0-litre engine coupled to a six-speed paddle-shift gearbox capable of launching the 1,495kg (3300 lbs.) berlinetta from a standstill to 62mph in just 3.4 seconds.

A new generation of Ferrari’s carbon ceramic brakes will be on hand to slow proceedings down, while aerodynamic cues taken from the race car and tyres developed especially for the GTO by Michelin promise extraordinary levels of grip.

670bhp coupe only available to 599 Ferrari customers

And if the G-Forces aren’t enough to tell you how fast you’re traveling, then the latest Ferrari also gets Virtual Race Engineer – an in-car system that gives the driver instantaneous information on the car’s performance.

Ferrari 250 GTO

Ferrari 288 GTO

The GTO badge has only been used two other times in Ferrari history. The 250 GTO of the 1960s was built off the short-wheelbase 250 GT and used for GT racing. In the mid-1980s, Ferrari created the 288 GTO (based on the 308 GTB) for Group B racing. Both cars were produced in limited numbers, just enough, in fact, to make them eligible for racing.

The Beijing auto show opens to the public on April 27 by which time Ferrari is expecting all GTOs to be accounted for.

法拉利全新跑车599 GTO 北京车展全球首发

法拉利全新跑车599 GTO 北京车展全球首发

经典的GTO归来了！法拉利599 GTO终于正式发布了，GTO的意思是“Gran Turismo Omologata”，GT是指的GT赛事，而最后一个单词是意大利语，意思是公路版本。这款599 GTO之前已经吊足了人们的胃口，作为纯赛车版599XX的民用版它早就名声在外，即便如此它也是限量供应的。这款车预计于四月的北京国际车展上正式发 布，而且限量599部，预计这次在中国将再一次大卖。

法拉利曾推出过多款GTO车型，最让人印象深刻的还是上世纪60年代的250 GTO，当时就采用3.0升V12的发动机，最大马力为300匹也算是笑傲当年车坛了。今天的这款599 GTO则是法拉利有史以来最快的公路版车型，我们知道法拉利599 GTO是动力是来自于599XX的那具6.0升V12发动机，最大马力为670匹发生于8250RPM，最大扭矩为620牛米发生于6500RPM，而 599XX则是从著名的法拉利ENZO衍生而来，倾注了法拉利几乎全部的看家本事。对比来看，599XX是最大马力为700匹，而599 GTB最大马力为620匹。

尽管性能相比599 GTB Fiorano有显著的上升，但是油耗与CO2排放却进一步改善到百公里17.5升，与411克/公里。这款跑车同样采用现行法拉利较为惯行的后驱结构， 变速器也是同样的六速顺序式结构换挡时间仅需60毫秒，尽可能地从599XX上原搬下来。

法拉利方面称这款跑车的百公里加速时间为 3.35秒，极速可达335KM/H。而且在著名的Fiorano赛道上，法拉利称它的单圈成绩仅为1分24秒，单就数字可能你没有什么概念，要知道当年 的法拉利ENZO是1分25秒，且是当时的新纪录缔造者，因而法拉利方面才敢说它是有史以来最快的法拉利民用跑车。

599 GTO也继承了599XX的多项瘦身技术，大量使用复合材料，车重仅为1495千克，比599 GTB还要轻85千克，重量马力比仅为2.23kg/hp。以操控著称的法拉利为这款车装备了新的弹簧与更硬朗的后防倾杆，还有第二代的电磁悬挂控制系统 SCM2。制动系统采用碳和陶瓷的复合材料，也是从599XX上继承下来的，从100KM/H到静止只要32.5米。

其它的变化包括有 新的前部扰流器，更低的独立风翼，新的侧面车门槛板设计，双曲后分流器与车下护板等。599 GTO还采用了新的发动机罩设计包括进气口，顶盖等，车轮采用20英寸的合金轮毂，前胎285/30后胎为315/35。

内饰方面法拉利采用定制化生产，更长的碳纤维F1换档拨片更易于高速驾驶，一对桶形座椅，新科技方面法拉利引入了一种被称为“可视化赛车工程”的系 统，可以实时监测车子的状态并将车辆的当前性能以可视化形式展现在驾驶者面前。

对于这款车官方尚未公示价格，但是据泄出的文件称售价在 267136欧元，约合人民币213万元。

China Property Bubble: Ghost Town of Kangbashi in Ordos

All Quiet
The Kangbashi district began as a public-works project in Ordos, a wealthy coal-mining town in Inner Mongolia, China. A public-works project worthy of Kubla Khan’s “stately pleasure-dome,” The area  is filled with office towers, administrative centers, government buildings, museums, theaters and sports fields—not to mention acre on acre of subdivisions overflowing with middle-class duplexes and bungalows. The only problem: the district was originally designed to house, support and entertain 1 million people, yet hardly anyone lives there.

Empty
Six years ago, Ordos county officials decided to move their headquarters out of old, cramped Dongsheng and into land that was then occupied by two small villages inhabited by about 1,400 people. By the end of 2008, the new district of Kangbashi was crisscrossed with 2.4 billion yuan ($352 million) worth of roads.  Though many of the properties in Kangbashi have been sold and a million people were projected to be living in Kangbashi by 2010, the city is still empty.

Vacant
Mostly empty apartment buildings in Kangbashi, a half hour down the road is Dongsheng, where most of Ordos’ 1.5 million resident call home.

Wealth and Knowledge
A pair of workers tidy up outside the public library. The city boasts the second highest per-capita income, behind to Shanghai but ahead of Beijing.

Treasure Palace
Workers carry pieces of foam up the stairs of the Ordos Museum, which is still under construction.

Monument
A pedestrian walks behind a giant sculpture of two horses in Kangbashi’s Linyinlu Square.

Light Traffic
Mostly empty apartment buildings stand in the distance.

No Sale
A pedestrian walks past a mostly unoccupied commercial area. Almost no businesses have moved into the new district.

Eerie Quiet
Empty streets remain empty even during the morning commute.

In Medias Res
An old man pushes a cart across a road segregating finished apartments and apartments still under construction.

Unfinished
Workers construct a plaza for un-present residents of an apartment complex.

On the Rise
Construction projects in Kangbashi continue despite the lack of occupancy.

From a Distance
Kangbashi awaits residents to bring the district, meant for a population the size of San Diego, California, to life.