Albert Cheng（曾明樺）

Chinese immigrants arrival in 1900 at Sibu Sibu is an old and well-known place for its Chinese decedents throughout Southeast Asia. This city is also known as New Fuzhou because of its majority Chinese people are initially came from Fuzhou, Fujian province in Mainland China around 100 years ago. Fujian people are divided to ten groups in China. There are Minhou, Minqing,. Changle, Fuqing, Pingtan, LianJiang, Luoyuan, Yongtai and two groups in Ningde - Gutian and Pingnan. In Sibu there are basically most of the Fuzhou people gathered from Minqing and Gutian. According to Gordon Redding in his book "The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism", there are two main pillars for a formation of Chinese overseas in the world. First it refers to the family education and background of Chinese tradition that he called it Paternalism. Second he argues that insecurity is one of the characteristics of Chinese overseas. The insecurity refers to some difficulties or hurdles encountered by Chinese...

The Natural Behavior of Water and Entrepreneurship ( PDF File ) In today's entrepreneurship, the competitive market leads to problems to survive and a sustainable business. Competitive environment exists because everything in the world changed, while it seems hard for men to breakthrough it and adapting the changeable world. The changes in market, economy, education, culture, policy, politics and even sciences and technology occurred rapidly. What should we do to survive and achieve sustainable growth? Are we need to follow the flow of the market or adjust our plan to adapt the changes? Is there anything that we can do to remain our business performance? Yes. An ancient Chinese philosopher - LaoZi (B.C 600 - 470) teaches us a valuable idea in his book - " Dao De Jing" about the principle of the Way (Dao).  The meaning of Dao basically can be understood as the wisdom or unchangeable truth. No matter how fast the world changed, we still can survive better if we can master t...

Lao Zi was a Chinese ancient philosopher who started a new understanding of nature known as Taoism. Nowadays, most of the people keep Taoism as a religion or belief, rather than an unique philosophy of Chinese ancestor as it was. What are the differences between the Taoism in the past and now in the heart of Chinese people today? Let us start to figure out what do the Chinese people explain Taoism today. Then, we will explore the understanding of Taoism in the past. By these, we can clearly see the differences between Chinese people in the past and today's society. Nowadays many people are worshiping LaoZi as a deity or God among Chinese community. There are many names found in their tradition and belief. For instance LaoZi also known as TaiShang LaoJun (太上老君) or Taishang XuanYuan. In fact this kind of religion or belief do not have any relationship to the teachings of LaoZi in Dao De Jing (道德经). In Taoism, the teachings of this ancient sage - LaoZi does not related to worsh...

Malaysia is a multicultural country with three main ethnic groups - Malay, Chinese and Indian. The population of Malays is around 65%, Chinese 26% and Indian 7.5%, and others 1.5%. In fact, they are remarkably different cultures and religions. According to the reports or some articles, many people grading Malaysia as a harmonious nation although some conflicts happened in the past among ethnic groups. Many believe that Malaysian government has done an outstanding job in building a harmony relationships among ethnic groups. The government also has been implementing numerous effective policies in education to bring all the people to unity. As it is mentioned, Malay people in Malaysia are the majority group, an indigenous group. In Malay, Bumiputera means "Prince of the earth". However, ethnic Chinese and Indians are more like alien emigrants in Malaysia. Since 1970s, Malaysian government has implemented the both New Economic Policy and Bumiputera policy, whereas Malay peopl...