China Practical Mobile Phone Economy Index

As a frequent visitor to China, yours truly would like to state that the country should consider having a practical way to measure the economy, like perhaps the number of mobile phones and house telephones.

News of Future (www.newsoffuture.com ) published a news report citing Chinese economist Lin Yifu who estimates that there will 1 billion mobile phone users in China by year 2020, up from 449 million users in October 2006.

So, we think the mobile phone should be used as an index to measure the economic health of the country. By doing so, all countries in the world can similarly use this same index, which we propose to call China Practical Mobile Phone Economy Index. Below is the report:

1 Billion Mobile Phone Users in China

January 5, 2020 - China will this month reach the 1 billion mark for mobile phone users, three times as many as 15 years ago. The market for mobile phones in China is bigger than Europe, US and Japan combined and about 80% of the Chinese population now has a mobile phone.

The worldwide use of mobile phones will most likely reach another significant mark later this year, when passing 5 billion mobile phone users, about 65% of the world’s population.

India is still the country adding most users in the world each month and will most likely pass China in total number of mobile phone users within the next 10 years, from their current 910 million.

China also has the most Internet users in the world, 400 million, and their impact on the Internet has been noticed significantly over the last years. One reason for this, a part from the number of users is the number of English-speaking Chinese, which has increased to almost match the native English speakers in the world.

Censorship Index update

Simon Singh today won a crucial ruling on meaning and fair comment at the Royal Courts of Justice. Simon Singh has spent two years and £200,000 on this case in defending himself. The pre-trial appeal ruling on meaning in the case of BCA v Singh was presided over by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, and Lord Justice Sedley — one of the most high-powered panels of judges ever to preside on a single case.

Singh is being sued for defamation by the British Chiropractic Association’s (BCA) for comments in a 2008 article for the Guardian newspaper in which he criticised chiropractic and claimed the BCA promoted “bogus” treatments, DESPITE THERE not being “a jot” of evidence of their effectiveness. In May 2009 the High Court gave a negative ruling on the meaning of Singh’s article, when Mr Justice Eady ruled that the author’s use of the word “bogus” implied that the BCA deliberately endorsed treatments they knew to be questionable.

The judges today rejected Eady’s interpretation and voiced concern that the case ‘has almost certainly had a chilling effect on public debate which might otherwise have assisted potential patients to make informed choices about the possible use of chiropractic.’

In a ruling of immense significance that will free scientific debate from the chill of libel action, they recommended that scientific controversies should be settled by methods of science rather than legal action and recommended that the defence ‘fair comment’ be replaced with ‘honest opinion’, as a more robust defence to the right to free expression.

‘If the BCA continues in its pursuit of suing Simon Singh after such a damning judgment,’ said Jo Glanville, Index on Censorship. ‘It may soon be in need of chiropractic treatment itself. The ruling today is a significant victory for the defence of freedom of speech. It’s essential that scientists and academics are allowed to criticise and question treatments, medical practice and research – and today goes a significant way towards lifting the chill on freedom of expression.

The Libel Reform Campaign is calling for a Libel Reform Act, for further information go to www.libelreform.org

For further comment contact
Jo Glanville, Editor, Index on Censorship jo@indexoncensorship.org +44 (0) 20 7324 2531
Padraig Reidy, News editor, Index on Censorship, padraig@indexoncensorship.org +44 (0) 20 7324 2526

The Libel Reform Campaign is a coalition of English PEN, Index on Censorship and Sense About Science. The campaign has over 44,500 signatories to its petition to reform England’s libel laws and for a Libel Reform Bill in the next parliament.

I Love You in 100 Languages

Got this in my email. Thought I will share it with you:

How to say I Love You in 100 Languages

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumem
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Catalan - T'estimo
Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Chinese
Cantonese - Ngo oiy ney a
Mandarin - Wo ai ni
Comanche - U kamakutu nu
(pronounced oo----ka-ma- koo-too-- ---nu) -- Thx Tony
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Cree - Kisakihitin
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Elvish - Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Frisian - Ik hald fan dy
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew
To female - "ani ohev otach" (said by male) "ohevet Otach" (said by female)
To male - "ani ohev otcha" (said by male) "Ohevet ot'cha" (said by female)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gaer
Macedonian - Te Sakam
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese - Inhobbok
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele - Niyakutanda
Norwegian
Bokmaal - Jeg elsker deg
Nyonrsk - Eg elskar deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te iubesc
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing 'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Surinam - Mi lobi joe
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai
To female - Phom rak khun
To male - Chan rak khun
Informal - Rak te
Tunisian - Ha eh bak
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese
To female - Anh ye^u em
To male - Em ye^u anh
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu di
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe
Zazi - Ezhele hezdege
Zuni - Tom ho' ichema

Woman and Man's relationship

Got this from a blogger, an interesting lesson.........

An English professor wrote the words:

“A woman without her man is nothing”

On the chalkboard and asked the students to punctuate it correctly.

The males in the class wrote:
“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The females in the class wrote:
“A woman, without her, man is nothing.”

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Moral of the Lesson: Punctuation is powerful.

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Beware of buying things from Internet...

My friend in Shanghai bought a machine for making soya bean drinks, and much to her chagrin, she found that it was a fake. I had warned her several times about this, but she feels it is a bargain and continues to purchase from the Internet. However, from time to time, goods that arrive, are either defective or at least not up to her expectations. But to be fair, there are other companies which keep to their word, and deliver what they advertise. But then, the number of stories we hear about fake goods and defective goods that are sold over the Internet are far too many for us to ignore. Fake goods made by the Chinese are far too many to ignore. For example, if people can go to the extent of making artificial chicken eggs, then what other fake goods will they not make. Something has to be done to put a stop to this.