What is the world's most popular beverage other than water?
China Resources Beverage China Resources Beverage China Resources Beverage (Holdings) Ltd. or CR Beverage () is the division of China Resources that sells soft drinks. Its head office is in the north area of the Hi-tech Park (新科技园 "Xīn Kējì Yuán") in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. The company maintains regional offices in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Shenzhen. The brands owned by the company include C'estbon (S: 怡宝, T: 怡寳, P: "Yíbǎo") water, Afternoon (S: 午后, T: 午後, P: "Wǔhòu") tea, Fire (FIRE) coffee, Jialinshan (C: 加林山, P: "Jiālínshān"), Magic, and Zero Pascal. It is also known as China Resources C'estbon Food & Beverage.
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage