The Best Investments You Can Make + MORE Mar 30th

BEIJING, China – A private film company in eastern China has agreed to invest at least $500 million in the studio of former Walt Disney boss Dick Cook to make movies to be distributed worldwide, the companies announced.
The deal is the latest tie-up between Hollywood and Chinese companies as China offers overseas producers more investment opportunities and both look to increase their presence in each other’s film industries.
Los Angeles-based Dick Cook Studios and Film Carnival, a film producer and distributor located in Zhejiang province, announced the deal in a statement Tuesday.
Film Carnival will finance 100 per cent of the movies developed, produced, distributed and marketed by Dick Cook Studios. The Los Angeles-based company will also help Film Carnival produce its own movies in China.
The first movie will be “Ranger’s Apprentice,” based on a book series and set to begin production in fall 2016. Paul Haggis, who wrote “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” will direct the movie, and he also wrote the screenplay along with his daughter, Alissa Sullivan Haggis…

As we go through it may be clear that some investments are better than others. Investing isn’t just about investing in the stock market. Investing also means investing with time and energy. Energy is neutral, but what we choose to do with it can be helpful or a hindrance for our goals.
Some of the best investments we can make in our lives are our body, our mind and our community, but what does that mean exactly?
Community is a term that can mean different things in different cultures or contexts. Community can be the group of people that you spend the most amount of time with, or people you’ve never met that are part of the chain of bringing food and goods into your lives. They may be across the world and you’ll never meet them, yet they are still part of the global community.
Investing in that community means a number of things. First of all, each one of us must define what community is for us and in what context we are talking about community. When we invest in community, we put our attention toward it and we, in turn, receive a sense of belonging…

MANILA, Philippines – Softer growth prospects for China and a weak recovery in major industrial economies are expected to push down economic growth in developing Asia to 5.7 per cent in 2016 and 2017, below previous projections, according to an Asian Development Bank report released Wednesday. The region’s economy grew 5.9 per cent in 2015.
The Asian Development Outlook 2016 said China’s economic growth is seen moderating to 6.5 per cent this year from 6.9 per cent last year and to 6.3 per cent next year. Slower exports, a falling labour supply and supply-side reforms are reshaping the world’s second-largest economy toward more domestic consumption and a further reduction in excess industrial capacity, it said.
The report says India will remain one of the fastest-growing major economies, expanding by 7.4 per cent in 2016 and 7.8 per cent in 2017. Last year, India’s economy grew 7.6 per cent, with strong public investment boosting growth.
Southeast Asia’s economy is set for stronger growth at 4…