1-1)Healthy food, 1-2) LG G5, 2-1) China's new silk-road, 2-2) U.K. House price down

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1-1) Plant-Based Foods That Boost Your Immunity(Dummies.com)

Mushrooms

For centuries, people around the world have turned to mushrooms for a healthy immune system. Contemporary researchers now know why. Studies show that mushrooms increase the production and activity of white blood cells, making them more aggressive. This is a good thing when you have an infection.

Miso Soup

Miso soup is the plant-based version of chicken-noodle soup. It has wonderful healing properties that are amazing at boosting immunity. As a living food, miso is loaded with enzymes and healthy bacteria that help fight infection and keep your cells thriving. All you need is one teaspoon of miso paste stirred into a mug or bowl of warm water, and you’re set. Sip this down, especially at the first sign of a cold or when you’re just feeling “off” with a stomachache, headache, or something like that. This is sure to hit the spot and make you feel good all over.

Citrus Fruits

Adding a bit of citrus to your diet goes a long way toward fending off your next cold or flu. Packed with vitamin C, oranges and grapefruits help increase your body’s resistance to nasty invaders. The best way to enjoy citrus fruits is to eat them whole. Otherwise, you can make fresh juice yourself (stay away from the premade stuff in cartons or in the freezer section at your supermarket).

Ginger

Spicy, pungent, and delicious, ginger reduces fevers, soothes sore throats, and encourages coughing to remove mucus from the chest. Anti-inflammatory chemicals like shagaol and gingerol give ginger that spicy kick that stimulates blood circulation and opens your sinuses. Improved circulation means more oxygen is getting to your tissues to help remove toxins and viruses. Research has indicated that ginger can help prevent and treat the flu. Ginger is also extremely helpful for stomachaches, nausea, and headaches.

If you’re feeling a little sickly, a homemade ginger tea is one of the best things you can drink. Slice some fresh ginger root, place it into a pot with water, and bring to a boil. Then drop in a bit of lemon juice or cayenne, which makes the tea that much more effective at nourishing and purifying your system.

Garlic

The most pungent of the plant kingdom inhabitants, garlic contains the immune-stimulating compound allicin, which promotes the activity of white blood cells to destroy cold and flu viruses. It also stimulates other immune cells, which fight viral, fungal, and bacterial infections. Garlic kills with near 100 percent effectiveness the human rhinovirus, which causes colds, common flu, and respiratory viruses.

Because allicin is released when you cut, chop, chew, or crush raw cloves, allow freshly chopped garlic to stand for 10 minutes and then cook it, sprinkle it over foods, drop it into soup, or swallow bits of garlic with some water like a pill. You can also drop a clove of garlic into some honey and swallow it immediately for a quick dose that tastes good!

[Question] How do you try to stay healthy? What foods make you feel healthy? What foods are known as healthy food? What are your comfort foods? 

1-2) LG Electronics gripped by G5 failure(Koreaherald)

[THE INVESTOR] LG Electronics, once considered a smartphone powerhouse along with Samsung Electronics and Apple, may feel like tumbling down a steep hill due to the disappointing performance of its flagship mobile business in recent years. After the sluggish sales of the G4 in 2015, the tech company had to eat humble pie once again with its latest high-end smartphone G5 when the latest marquee device lost its steam rather fast. Unveiled in March 31 with much fanfare, the G5 topped smartphone sales in Korea during the first week of April. Sales on the day of its launch reached 15,000 units -- three times that of its predecessor. 

But things turned sour just a month later: daily sales nosedived to 3,000 units in May, and the phone slipped to the fourth place in terms of smartphone sales in the following weeks, according to market research firm Atlas Research & Consulting. Supply shortage was cited as the main reason for the sales drop, but the fundamental problem ran deeper, according to market watchers. “Compared to Samsung’s smartphone, the G5 lacks a premium image and looks rather like a toy, which is a huge turn-off for consumers,” said a source from the telecom sector on the condition of anonymity.

The G5, the first modular phone in the world, is far from complete. The phone’s modular devices including a camera-equipped rolling bot and a drone controller, have not even hit the shelves yet, while some users complain about the stability of the phone’s external modules. The lack of appealing features and a premium image has placed the G5 in an uphill battle against even the outdated iPhones and Samsung’s mid-range handsets such as the Galaxy A and J lineups.

The G5 was ranked 10th in terms of sales while Samsung’s mid-range smartphones Galaxy J7 and K5 took sixth and eight places, respectively, in the fourth week of June, according to Atlas Research & Consulting. Newcomers in the market including Pantech’s mid-range Sky IM-100 are also posing a threat to LG. To help rejuvenate its mobile communications business, LG recently set up a new position called the “program management officer,” under LG’s mobile business chief Cho Ju-no. The company also merged several sales and marketing divisions to improve efficiency.

The restructuring is aimed at putting more focus on developing high-end smartphone products, including the G and V smartphone lineups, the company said. Despite such efforts, it would be hard for LG to turn things around in a short time, according to market watchers. “Annual sales of the G5 will stand at around 5.5 million , and LG’s mobile business will post around 400 billion won (US$344 million)of operating loss this year,” said Go Jung-woo, an analyst from NH Investment & Securities. Cho Jin-ho, an analyst from Mirae Asset, said LG’s mobile business will likely continue to suffer an operating loss before the launch of the high-end smartphones, G Flex 3 and V20, in the fourth quarter this year.”

[Question] Which brand cell phone do you have? Why did you buy that phone? Which brand do you find attractive between LG and Samsung? 

2-1) China’s foreign policy could reshape a good part of the world economy(ECONOMIST)

THE first revival of the Silk Road—a vast and ancient network of trade routes linking China’s merchants with those of Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe—took place in the seventh century, after war had made it unusable for hundreds of years. Xi Jinping, China’s president, looks back on that era as a golden age, a time of Pax Sinica, when Chinese luxuries were coveted across the globe and the Silk Road was a conduit for diplomacy and economic expansion. The term itself was coined by a German geographer in the 19th century, but China has adopted it with relish. Mr Xi wants a revival of the Silk Road and the glory that went with it.

This time cranes and construction crews are replacing caravans and camels. In April a Chinese shipping company, Cosco, took a 67% stake in Greece’s second-largest port, Piraeus, from which Chinese firms are building a high-speed rail network linking the city to Hungary and eventually Germany. In July work is due to start on the third stage of a Chinese-designed nuclear reactor in Pakistan, where China recently announced it would finance a big new highway and put $2 billion into a coal mine in the Thar desert. In the first five months of this year, more than half of China’s contracts overseas were signed with nations along the Silk Road—a first in the country’s modern history.

Politicians have been almost as busy in the builders’ wake. In June Mr Xi visited Serbia and Poland, scattering projects along the way, before heading to Uzbekistan. Last week Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, made a brief visit to Beijing; he, Mr Xi and Mongolia’s leader promised to link their infrastructure plans with the new Silk Road. At the time, finance ministers from almost 60 countries were holding the first annual meeting in Beijing of an institution set up to finance some of these projects, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Like a steam train pulling noisily out of a station, China’s biggest foreign-economic policy is slowly gathering speed.

Chinese officials call that policy “One Belt, One Road”, though they often eviscerate its exotic appeal to foreigners by using the unlovely acronym OBOR. Confusingly, the road refers to ancient maritime routes between China and Europe, while the belt describes the Silk Road’s better-known trails overland (see map). OBOR puzzles many Western policymakers because it is amorphous—it has no official list of member countries, though the rough count is 60—and because most of the projects that sport the label would probably have been built anyway. 

Mr Xi seems to see the new Silk Road as a way of extending China’s commercial tentacles and soft power. It also plays a role in his broader foreign-policy thinking. The president has endorsed his predecessors’ view that China faces a “period of strategic opportunity” up to 2020, meaning it can take advantage of a mostly benign security environment to achieve its aim of strengthening its global power without causing conflict. OBOR, officials believe, is a good way of packaging such a strategy. It also fits with Mr Xi’s “Chinese dream” of recreating a great past. It is not too much to say that he expects to be judged as a leader partly on how well he fulfils OBOR’s goals. 

A financial structure to support it has also taken shape. In 2015 the central bank transferred $82 billion to three state-owned “policy banks” for OBOR projects. China’s sovereign wealth fund backed a new Silk Road Fund worth $40 billion and the government set up the AIIB with $100 billion of initial capital. The bank is not formally part of OBOR but the loans approved at its first general meeting—roads in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, for example—are all in Silk Road countries.

Now the rest of the Chinese state is mobilising. Two-thirds of China’s provinces have emphasised the importance of OBOR for their development. For example, Fuzhou, the capital of coastal Fujian province, has told its companies to “start businesses in the countries and regions along the maritime Silk Road”; it has set up a free-trade zone to attract firms from such countries in South-East Asia. Many big state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have an OBOR department, if only in the hope of getting money for their projects.

[Question] Does your gut-feeling say that this China's Silk Road project will be successful? Please make a bet on it's success- you risk your U$ 1 million investment.  

2-2) First-time home buyers may be excited that U.K. home prices could soon fall in the wake of "Brexit."(CNN)

But it's not all good news for potential home buyers. The country's vote to leave the European Union has resulted in extreme economic and political uncertainty, which could weaken the U.K. economy, hurt jobs and lower house prices. Already, there are signs of trouble in Britain's commercial property market, with investors trying to pull out of the sector. But even if home prices drop by 10% to 20%, buyers -- and first-time buyers in particular -- could still face trouble.

Overall uncertainty and market volatility could lead banks to tighten their lending standards, said Paul Donovan, a global economist at UBS in London. This could slow down or stop many home purchases, he warned. "Your ability to buy a house at all depends on your ability to get a mortgage. And how much you pay for a house is directly related to how large a mortgage you are able to get," Donovan said. "A drop in house prices is not to your advantage. It's indicative of the problems you're facing." But the Bank of England is doing everything in its power to ensure that money keeps pulsing through the financial system during these uncertain times. Governor Mark Carney said the central bank could lower interest rates further in the coming weeks and months, which would encourage banks to keep lending.

"A property price drop of 10% to 20% makes it a better time to buy than before the fall, if you have mortgage availability and if rates stay low or fall further," noted Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec in London. Will foreigners flee? The question of immigration and foreign buyers also plays an important role in the housing market, especially in London, a city with a lot of foreign-born residents and international investors.

Donovan predicts that prices in London and the rest of the U.K. could fall if foreign owners decide to offload their British property if they feel the investment environment has become too uncertain and unwelcoming. That might provide a good one-off buying opportunity for locals, he said. But a lower level of investment from foreigners and immigrants would also put a damper on any potential price appreciation over the next few years, he warned. The weakening British pound also plays a role in supply and demand. The currency has tumbled by as much as 15% versus the U.S. dollar since the "Brexit" vote. This could draw in international real estate investors attracted by bargains, which would support the market and prices.

Buy smart

The expected shake-up in the U.K. housing market is sure to breed uncertainty for some time. So any first-time buyer should use caution and avoid jumping into a deal too quickly. "Be selective, do your research, negotiate hard," advises Jeremy McGivern, founder of the U.K. property search agency, Mercury Homesearch. "Just because something has had a price reduction, doesn't mean value. The initial price might just be wrong." Shaw also warns that anyone intent on buying a home must be willing to stick around for a few years, since there is the risk that prices could decline further, leaving homeowners in an "equity trap" -- or underwater mortgage -- where the price of a home falls below what's owed on the mortgage.

The latest data from the U.K. Council of Mortgage Lenders show that nearly 313,000 new mortgages were granted to first-time buyers last year -- or 46% of all new mortgages. The average first-time buyer was 30 years old and made a down payment of 17% of the purchase price. These combined first-time buyer mortgages were worth £47 billion ($61 billion).

[Question] If you, as Korean investor who lives in Korea, owned a house in the U.K., would you sell it now? 

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