This Week in Enterprise Tech 200: Welcome to 200!

Edit Twit TV 30 Jul 2016
Hosts. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Brian Chee, Curt Franklin, Lou Maresca. Guests. Tim Titus, Cricket Liu. For the 200th episode, an all-star team discusses BYOD, SSDs, and other IT game changers from the past, present, and future. Fr. Robert Ballecer, Brian Chee, Curtis Franklin, and Lou Maresca celebrate with Tim Titus (of PathSolutions) and Cricket Liu (of Infoblox) ... Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show ... ....

CSRC fines Industrial Securities

Edit China Daily 30 Jul 2016
Regulator says underwriter failed duty to examine Xintai's books sufficiently ... Wen Deyi and the company's accountant Liu Mingsheng were banned for life from the securities industry ... "It's a piece of good news for the capital market that the regulator is implementing the delisting measures strictly based on laws and regulations," said Liu Jipeng, dean of the capital finance institute at the China University of Political Science and Law....

TWiT Bit 2874: The Beginning of BYOD

Edit Twit TV 30 Jul 2016
Fr. Robert Ballecer, Lou Maresca, Brian Chee, Curt Franklin, Tim Titus, and Cricket Liu discuss and debate which devices (such as the iPhone) are attributed to the start of BYOD several years ago. Full episode available at twit.tv/twiet/200. Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by Cachefly ... ....

Chinese table tennis talent leave to compete

Edit Taipei Times 30 Jul 2016
South Korea’s top female table tennis player, China-born Jeon Ji-hee, has an easy explanation for why she had to leave her homeland to compete in the game she loves. “There are way too many good players in China,” Jeon said after a pre-Olympics practice session. “It’s extremely hard to make it to the national team.” ... Current world No. 1 Liu Shiwen (劉詩雯), for instance, did not get one of China’s two spots for singles....

Taiwan in Time: Fleeing to the old country for love

Edit Taipei Times 30 Jul 2016
Taiwan in Time. Aug. 1 to Aug. 7 ... Beijing fell to the Japanese in October 1937, and as Japanese citizens, many Taiwanese traveled there to work ... “They were cast aside by the motherland,” he writes ... Chung and his literary contemporary Wu Cho-liu (吳濁流) both wrote about the identity crisis of Taiwanese during World War II, being distrusted by the Chinese in the “motherland” and discriminated against by the Japanese at home ... ....

Protest in Burundi after UN decides to send police

Edit Al Jazeera 30 Jul 2016
Around 1,000 people have marched through the streets of Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, to protest against a UN decision to send a police contingent to monitor the security and human rights situation in the country ... "On the question of sending United Nations police to Burundi, it is necessary to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Burundi," Liu Jieyi, China's UN ambassador, told the council ... Source ... ....

Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2302 (2016), Security Council Authorizes Extension of United Nations Mission in South Sudan Mandate (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
(Source. UN - United Nations). The Security Council today renewed the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 12 August, determining that the situation in that country constituted a threat to international peace and security ... Liu Jieyi (China) endorsed the mandate extension and expressed hope that the conflict parties would honour their ceasefire commitments ... The meeting began at 5.06 p.m ... Resolution ... '1 ... '2....
photo: UN / Mark Garten
DPR of UK speaks to the media on Burundi

UN to send police force to Burundi as unrest continues

Edit Al Jazeera 30 Jul 2016
The UN Security Council has authorised the deployment of up to 228 UN police personnel to Burundi to monitor the security and human rights situation in the East African country ... READ MORE ... Ambassador's warning ... Chinese abstention ... "On the question of sending United Nations police to Burundi, it is necessary to respect the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Burundi," Liu Jieyi, China's UN ambassador, told the council ... ....

Chinese table tennis domination leads to exodus of talent

Edit The Miami Herald 30 Jul 2016
South Korea's top female table tennis player, China-born Jeon Ji-hee, has an easy explanation for why she had to leave her homeland to compete in the game she loves. "There are way too many good players in China," Jeon said after a pre-Olympics practice session. "It's extremely hard to make it to the national team." ... Current world No. 1 Liu Shiwen, for instance, didn't get one of China's two spots for singles ... --- ... ....

2016 Rio Olympics medal projections

Edit The Miami Herald 30 Jul 2016
Medal projections for the 2016 Rio Olympics, compiled from predictions by the staff of The Associated Press.. ARCHERY. Men. Individual. Gold. Kim Woojin, South Korea. Silver. Marcus D'Almeida, Brazil. Bronze. Brady Ellison, United States. Team. Gold. South Korea. Silver. United States. Bronze. Brazil. Women. Individual. Gold. Choi Misun, South Korean. Silver. Ki Bo Bae, South Korea. Bronze. Mackenzie Brown, United States ... Liu Hong, China ... Liu Lingling, China....

Adopting Resolution 2303 (2016), Security Council Requests Secretary-General Establish Police Component in Burundi to Monitor Security Situation (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
(Source. UN - United Nations) ... The Council strongly urged the Government and all parties to cease and reject violence, and condemned any public statement inciting hatred ... The meeting began at 5.21 p.m ... Statements ... LIU JIEYI (China) urged all Burundian parties to participate actively in the peace dialogue ... LIU (China), taking the floor a second time, said the fundamental interests of the Government and people of Burundi must be protected....

Master pieces by Shakespeare, Tang Xianzu performed at Leeds University (Beijing Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming addressed the crowd before the performance, stressing the two playwrights are considered as the 'soul of the age' in the renaissance of the West and the humanist enlightenment of the East ... In fact, Tang and Shakespeare are the best examples to show that China and the UK are both great nations with a time-honored culture and history,' Liu told the audience....

Dalian prepares to set sail as key cruise liner port

Edit China Daily 29 Jul 2016
The Dalian Port International Cruise Liner Center on China's east coast is expected to be handling 200,000 passengers a year by 2019, a senior official has disclosed ... According to Liu Wei, who is in charge of construction, the berths will become operational in 2017 ... Liu Bin, an economist at Dalian Maritime University, says many cities in China, including Guangzhou, Qingdao and Shanghai, are building cruise ports....
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