Top 10 Countries Leading the Clean-Energy Race

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The largest Asian country in terms of population is spending a lot more in clean energy than any other country, even beating out the United States. China’s total investment figure in renewable energy is more than those expedited by the US and UK combined, two countries that round up the Top 3.

The Top 10 Countries that invest more in renewable energy belong to the G20, a group of industrialized and advanced countries with the largest economies in the world. Rounding up the top 10 with their respective spending figures for renewable energy in 2009 are:

1) China                                      $34.6 billion
2) United States                           $18.6 billion
3) United Kingdom                      $11.2 billion
4) Rest of EU-27                         $10.8 billion
5) Spain                                       $10.4 billion
6) Brazil                                       $7.4 billion
7) Germany                                  $4.3 billion
8) Canada                                    $3.3 billion
9) Italy                                         $2.6 billion
10) India                                      $2.3 billion


The rest of EU includes the 27 member-countries of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

However, if the EU countries were to be separated and the amount in renewable energy investment is taken into account for each country, the Latin American country, Mexico, would have coveted the 10th spot, spending $1.8 billion in renewable energy.

This information was sourced from Pew Charitable Trust’s report entitled: Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, Competition and Opportunity in the World’s Largest Economies.

Clearly, it’s China winning the race, another feat the Asian country has attained in the 21st century.

Top 10 Countries With the Largest Number of Mobile Subscribers

China, being the largest country in the world in terms of population is undoubtedly the largest market when it comes to product demand when individual country per product demand is taken into account. In the cellphone market, it is, without doubt, the largest. And mobile carrier companies are very happy to tap the China market because it is the number one when it comes to the number of mobile subscribers.

Top 10 2010 Billionaires

Warren Buffet topped the list last year. This time a Mexican soars higher in the rank of billionaires. Not really soaring higher because he was third last year but he took over Buffet and Gates in wealth figures. You may have already some preludes on other articles, so I have to give you now the list of Top 10 Billionaires according to Forbes.

The Top 10 Popular Tax Havens You May Want to Reside Permanently

Countries that have no or low nominal taxes are considered tax havens.

Though there are no definite categories or attributes for a country to be known as a tax haven, the following characteristics are eminent such as:

1. no tax  or low nominal taxes;
2. foreign tax authorities can't get sufficient information because of lack of effective tax communication
3. a tax haven's government is lenient in the matters of tax collection
4. there is no substantial evidence as to the provision and imposition of tax and tax laws to its jurisdiction, and
5.  a tax haven's promotion as an offshore financial center.

Top 10 Best Tax Haven Countries

Taxes are really a burden. Though paying taxes is a responsibility of the people of nations that impose taxes to their citizens, many people want to evade paying taxes.However, doing so could put tax evaders in jail.

Yes. Tax evasion is illegal and many governments have made moves to track tax evaders and punish them. Others are penalized while others depending on severity, could be imprisoned.

However, it is good to know that there are countries that don't levy taxes to their citizens. Some of them have also granted tax holidays to investors. Tax havens attract people particularly rich people who probably have the fear of giving their hard-earned money to their governments. Moreover, tax haven countries are magnets of investments.

These are the 10 countries, in no particular order that put incentives to their citizens and investors- foreign and local according to Cheap-credit-cards.org

• United Arab Emirates
• Hong Kong
• Cyprus 
• Georgia
• Singapore
• Russia
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• South Africa
• The Philippines

Good to have the Philippines on the list despite certain issues of the current administration over the imposing of additional 2% of VAT from 10% VAT.

However, the Philippine government has provided tax incentives to accredited companies, foreign and local with offices and operations on the country's many economic zones.

I don't know with other countries though. 

Top 10 Largest Malls in the World

Shopping malls can be small just like strip malls or even a line of shops on a street but in a same building. Likewise, there are malls built like box-type or even architectural wonders. And there are malls that are fully air-conditioned( yeah, shops can be found inside the building) and with big open spaces inside that one can literally live there and spend his or her free time wandering around just window shopping or yet having a dine at a restaurant inside while watching people go about their ways.

Some of the biggest buildings in the world are filled with retail shops and entertainment centers. And these building are what we called as shopping malls. These malls are ultimate shopping, dining and entertainment centers.

And there are malls that are really big. If you want to know which malls that are the biggest and largest in the world, then this list may be of good use to you:

	Mall	Location	Gross Leasable Area	Total Land Area
1	New South China Mall[30]	Dongguan, China	600,000 m2 (6.46 million sq ft)	890,000 m2(9.58 million sq ft)
2	SM City North EDSA	Quezon City,Philippines	460,000 m² (4.74 million sq ft)		It includes City Center Building, The Annex, The Block, Carpark Building and SkyGarden. Currently the Largest Mall in Asia after Golden Resources Mall, 2nd Largest Mall in the World and Largest Shopping Mall in Southeast Asia.
3	Central World[31]	Bangkok, Thailand	429,500 m² (4.62 million sq ft)	550,000 m² (5.92 million sq ft)	Area of the full complex is 1,024,000 m² including two skyscrapers.
4	SM Mall of Asia	Pasay City,Philippines	410,000 m² (4.67 million sq ft)[citation needed]
5	West Edmonton Mall	Edmonton, Canada	350,000 m² (3.8 million sq ft)	570,000 m² (6.0 million sq ft)	The largest mall in North America
6	Dream Mall	Kaohsiung City,Taiwan	400,000 m² (4.5 million sq ft)
7	The Dubai Mall[32][33][34]	Dubai, UAE	350,000 m² (3.77 million sq ft)	1,124,000 m² (12.1 million sq ft)
8	SM Megamall	Mandaluyong City,Philippines	348,000 m² (3.75 million sq ft)	420,000 m² (4.52 million sq ft)
9	Berjaya Times Square[35]	Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia	320,000 m² (3.44 million sq ft)	700,000 m² (7.53 million sq ft)
10	Beijing Mall	Beijing, China	320,000 m² (3.44 million sq ft)	440,000 m² (4.74 million sq ft)

Above is the top 10 list of largest shopping malls in the world.

What should be known is that the list is based on gross leasable area.

The Dubai Mall should be considered the largest mall in the world based on total land area.

The SM City North Edsa, SM Mall of Asia and SM Megamall are among the giant malls in the Philippines. The SM City North Edsa is even considered the second largest based on gross leasable area. However, when total land area is taken into consideration. It would be surpassed by Dubai Mall, New South China Mall, West Edmonton Mall, Central World Thailand and Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur, respectively.

There are other largest shopping malls in the world that are noteworthy and should be given recognition. Among these is Mall of America, which is the most visited shopping mall in the world and, if it is included in the list, is placed on the top 14th.

Siam Paragon in Thailand is the 11th largest mall in the world and is even larger than that of SM City North Edsa in total land area. The former has a total land area of 500,000 sq. m. while the latter has 460,000 sq. m.

Meanwhile, King of Prussia in Pennsylvania is the 13th largest in the world, the largest mall in USA and the second largest in North America.

The top 12th largest mall in the world is in the Philippines again. This time, it is just a few kilometer ride from my residence. SM City Cebu boasts itself as among the largest malls. It is really large. However, SM City Cebu rivals Ayala Center Cebu when it comes to aesthetics and attraction.

Some of the best and largest shopping malls in the world are just in my homestead and most of them are in Asia.

Note: The list is sourced at Wikipedia.com. circa 2009.

T10 reasons for looking and creating WEALTH ONLINE

I know many individuals are looking for ways to create wealth online or in a more cliche phrase: MAKE MONEY ONLINE. Looking for a job, doing biz or creating money online has different reasons and these are:

(Note: when I use the word "we" here, I did not intend to generalize)

1) We want to manage time and time can be more manageable when there is less legwork, reduced workload and versatile working hours.

2) Doing the offline 8-5 or 9-5, 40 hour-work in a week is taxing so we opt for less stressful, more flexible working hours working at home while still earning money

3) We want to choose how much we want to earn and that could lead us to working more hours online if we want to earn more. But when there is a satisfaction of the income currently streaming, checking the online biz site or blog for just two hours doing updates and answering emails would just do the work and then we can do the things that we like for the remaining hours of the day and night.

4) We want to enjoy what other people who have been successful online have been doing now. They are carefree, less stressful and inspirational.

5) We are looking for our retirement and some of us want to retire early so we choose to do business online. However, doing biz online would still require hard work if wanting to create residual income stream for the remaining months and years. But still ,when we think our business plan is feasible and that there is a strong conviction about the internet as a goldmine, we would still go for it... doing biz online, no matter what.

6) We want to attain a career-life balance.

7) We want other people to speculate of our earnings when they see new house,new tech gadgets, new cars parked in the garage, new everything.

Neighbors and friends may be speculating of your fortune, saying something like, "I only see you everyday just doing your thing at home or traveling wherever you like. Where did you get your money."

Other people might reconsider the notion just seeing your fortune as inheritance money while other sets of individuals(especially, the neighbors) who know about your background, from being broke to classy, will have bad ideas about your fortune. When you come to that point, will you spill the beans or not? Or will you just let them get envious more?

8) In other words, we want to be the object of envy or should I say, objects of envy. Now that is bad. Or is it?

9) We want to just enjoy the remaining days of our lives just doing less while earning more and so we think doing biz or working at home through online means will do the possibility. In short, we want to create passive income online.

10) The last reason I could not anymore supply and I will leave this blank for you.

Make Money Online- The Quest

Two years ago, my workmate introduced me to the world of blogging. Five of my new workmates have their own blogs while two of them have already earned money from their blogs. So, I wondered... "Is it possible to make money from blogging? Is there something to sell to earn just a few dollars that might eventually became hundreds and thousands?"

And so, I thought, mmmm... okay, show me your blog!

It was like saying, show me your money( even though I did not see any)

So, one of my workmates who was so friendly to me, took me to her blog( yeah, she is a lady). She let me see her account and her statistics and then I came to ponder on. Really now...

Okay...

"Can you help me create a blog?" Oh, before that, I asked her: "do I have to spend money?"

Well, she said "no, of course" and then I said, "tell me and show me how to do it".

But because it was working time, I let her do the work of creating the account at Blogger to creating an Adsense account (lucky me!)

After that, during our break time, she showed me the blog and gave me the UN and PW.

She told me to post some articles on the blog which I did for one month. My first month blog is Cebu Living which I now changed to Bjorn's Living in Cebu.

I have made new posts on the blog but the posting is not regular. (My last post on the blog was on 2008).

Eventually this year, I stumbled upon a blog about money-making doing blogging. I read about a blog Entrepreneurs Journey. I read about the author's lifestyle from his blogging beginning to what is he is and has now. Just by reading one article of his blog, I was already convinced to continue blogging. ( Procrastination is my disease and I am gradually finding a way to cure it, actually I have found it.)

I have also read a blog of John Chow . And on his blog, I have come across a way to make money online by reading his e-book. Yes, John Chow is so generous that he gave his fortune secrets by giving out his e-book for free. You may have to visit his site, if you want to download a copy.

As I am writing this post, I am thinking of other ways to create a system that really works for me. That is why, I have tagged "The Quest" on the post title because I want to convey to the reader that this is not a post for making money by doing blogging. I might come to that point. But right now, I am still doing things so I can make my own system for successful money-making venture online.

Here are my top 10 lists for things that I have been doing to create a fortune through online means:

1) Reading several blogs about money making opportunities.

2) Reading forum posts to search for fresh ideas about online biz opportunities.

3) Purchasing a package data entry online package online so I can have cash as investment for the my own web hosted blogs and sites.( Hopefully, this is not a scam)

4) Searching for sites and forum sites about scams and other sites considered to be scams.

5) Signing up to get-paid-to-view-website sites( I have signed up for three and one of them is Clixsense)

6) Signing up to Max Invest.The best internet investment, Earn a XXX% daily profit!

7) I have also signed up to online casino and downloaded a software but I halt that move because...

8) I have signed up for Ebay, Twitter, Paypal and Alert Pay

9) I have also signed up for dealdotcom.com

10) I have made a new blog ( make that two).

I have made those on the list but I know there are still more to do.

I would like to experience passive income. I know residual income can be possible when you invest in real estate ( when you opt to lease your properties instead of selling them outright).

But I have this intuition that making passive income online is a near possibility.

Hope for more of this kind of post as this is just the commencement of my quest for making money online.

Top 10 Notebooks You Wish You Had!

Laptops and notebooks are considered very essential nowadays especially when you want to be mobile and you need to look over your online biz wherever you are in the world( as long as there is a fast internet connection).

And this holds true to many people who have careers in sales, marketing, accounting, finance and executive positions.

However, notebooks and laptops are not just for those people. Even college studes and high school teens want those gadgets and even need them to complement their lifestyles.

Now, here is a list that I have found from my source (www.laptopmag.com):

The Top 10 Notebooks (based on the sites latest issue circa August 14, 2009)

1)Toshiba Satellite L355

2) Lenovo ThinkPad T400S

3) Acer Timeline 3810T

4) Acer Aspire 6930G-6723

5) ASUS W90

6) Appler MacBook (13-inch)

7) Dell XPS Studio 16

8) Gateway MD7801u

9) HP Pavilion dv5t

10) Samsung X360-34P

Now, I don't want to make a review on each of those top 10 notebooks. If you want to view the full article as well as the reviews for each of the notebooks, you may as well visit the main source.

Luckily, I am using Toshiba Satellite which is on the top of the list. But I am still browsing over the manual if the model is L355. LOL.