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December 7, 2018

At the age of 100 years, you probably thinking of just relaxing and enjoying life as a centenarian. But this is not the case for the world’s oldest billionaire Chang Yun Chung, founder of Pacific International Lines (PIL) in 1967, whom finds staying at home is not an option.

The billionaire has handed over the role of executive chairman to his son, Teo Siong Seng, earlier this year (2018) after 51 years being at the helm of the company.

If you think that once you hand over your role of the company, most people’s mind would be thinking its time to retire and enjoy the rest of your life. But not for him. Mr Chang Yun Chung still visits the firm’s Singapore headquarters daily to run through its operations and check in with every department.

“Every day, I write down all my activities in my diary, everything,” said Chang. “Every department comes to see me.”

For him, it’s a way of keeping his mind active and staying in touch with the company he set up in 1967 with just two second-hand ships.

The company, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in March 2017, has a fleet of 160 vessels. As of Jun 2018, Mr Chang’s net worth was at $1.9 billion.

“I cannot stay at home,” said the self-made billionaire. “(I’d get) very, very bored.”

Even after Chang handing over the baton to his son Teo Siong Seng, Teo still consults his father twice a day, to gain his insights and learn more about leadership.

“When I was younger, I was more bad-tempered, so I was more (of) a hard leader,” said Teo Siong Seng. “But my father taught me one thing, in Chinese, it’s ‘yi de fu ren’ — that means you want people to obey you, not because of your authority, not because of your power, or because you are fierce, but more because of your integrity, your quality, that people actually respect you and listen to you.”

“So, ‘yi de fu ren’ is a very difficult thing to do, but I think I’m slowly learning it.”

The lesson proved to be especially important back in 2009 when Teo Siong Seng back then was a managing director, and he had to manage the hijacking of one of the company’s vessels by pirates off the coast of East Africa. It took 75 days and an undisclosed sum to eventually secure the crew’s release.

“In any business, especially shipping, there’s a lot of unknown,” said Teo. “There can be political (issues), there can be technical issues, there can be accidents. It doesn’t help losing your temper and getting all worked up. So staying calm is something that I learnt from him and I’m still learning from him.”

For Chang’s part, it’s that mentality that has perhaps kept him happy in his role for so long.

“I never lose my temper,” he said. ”(I) cannot. When you lose your temper, you just cannot control yourself.”

It just goes to show that age is just a number. A good leader is one with a lot of patience and able control of his emotions. For all the hot headed people out there, try to learn from Chang’s example. To always control your temper.

Also an important lesson is that never ignore your seniors or elders, they may have some useful advice that could be a life long lesson.

World’s first baby born from womb transplanted from deceased donor!

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December 5, 2018

World’s first baby was born from a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. This took place in Brazil and its the first of its kind to have happened.

The case, published in The Lancet medical journal, involved connecting veins from the donor uterus with the recipient’s veins, as well as linking arteries, ligaments and vaginal canals.

Dani Ejzenberg, a doctor at Brazil’s Sao Paulo University hospital who led the research, said the transplant – carried out in September 2016 when the recipient was 32 – shows the technique is feasible and could offer women with uterine infertility access to a larger pool of potential donors.

The recipient had been born without a uterus due to a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome. The donor was 45 and died of a stroke.

Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a rare disorder that affects women.

It is characterized by the failure of the uterus and the vagina to develop properly in women who have normal ovarian function and normal external genitalia.

Women with this disorder develop normal secondary sexual characteristics during puberty (e.g., breast development and pubic hair), but do not have a menstrual cycle.

Worlds first baby born from womb transplanted from deceased donor

Five months after the transplant, Ejzenberg’s team wrote, the uterus showed no signs of rejection, ultrasound scans were normal, and the recipient was having regular menstruation.

The woman’s previously fertilized and frozen eggs were implanted after seven months and 10 days later she was confirmed pregnant.

The baby girl was then delivered via caesarean section at 35 weeks and three days, and weighed 2,550g.

With medical science advancing so much over the years, families with medical disorder won’t be out of options. Just like the woman in this article, she was given a second chance to become pregnant and carry her own baby with her own eggs.

She could have gone for surrogacy pregnancy, which is actually an arrangement to have another woman become pregnant on your behalf and endure the months of pregnancy all the way till the birth of the baby, and return the child to back to herself.

This is a clearly good example of how organ harvesting is a good thing and can help benefit the living and give them hope in life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger wish to terminate fossil fuels just like the Terminator Movie

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December 4, 2018

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wishes he could travel back in time just like the movie “The Terminator”. His purpose? So that he could stop fossil fuels from being used. This time his mission isn’t to eliminate the leader of the human resistance. Instead his intention is to ‘time travel’ to save the globe. Now that makes a good new movie plot.

Adult website sued by blind man for not being user friendly

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December 3, 2018

Playboy is being sued by a blind man. That’s right, Donald Nixon a legally blind man is suing Playboy for operating a website which can’t be enjoyed by people who are visually impaired.

US and China declare trade truce at G20 summit

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December 2, 2018

At the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, US President Donald Trump and China’s
Xi Jinping agreed on Saturday (01 Dec 2018) to suspend any new tariffs for 90
days as the two powers seek to end a trade war.

US President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on plans to raise tariffs to25% on 01 Jan 2019. In return, Beijing agreed to buy a “very substantial amount”of agricultural, energy and industrial products from the US to reduce huge trade deficit between China and the US.

President Trump and President Xi have agreed to immediately begin negotiations on structural changes with respect to forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cyber theft, services and agriculture.

Both parties agree that they will endeavor to have this transaction completed within the next 90 days. However at the end of the 90 days period, if both the US and China are unable to reach an agreement, the 10% tariffs will be raised to 25%.

President Trump stated: “This was an amazing and productive meeting with unlimited possibilities for both the United States and China. It is my great honor to be working with President Xi.”

George HW Bush US 41st President died at age 94

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December 2, 2018

Former US President George HW Bush has died on 30 Nov 2018 at the age of 94 at home in Houston, Texas. He served as the 41st United States President between 1989 to 1993. His son George Walker Bush was the 43rd United States President.

Russian woman scammed by fake Chris Hemsworth

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December 1, 2018

Love is in the air, that is at least what a Russian woman think was happening. Apparently she was chatting with a scammer who faked his identity as the actor Chris Hemsworth who portrays Thor in Marvel movies.

Chinese government orders halt on He Jiankui’s gene editing research

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November 30, 2018

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Chinese scientist He Jiankui who previously claimed he made the world’s first genetically edited babies is now in the spot light again. The Chinese government has ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes.

Meet Knickers the biggest cow from Australia weighing 1.4 ton

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November 29, 2018

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Holy Cow, now that is what we call the biggest cow. Meet Knickers, a 7 year old Holstein Friesian from Myalup, Western Australia. The cow stands at 6ft 4in and weights close to 1.4 tons.