Authoritarian China vs. Cacophonous democratic India

Authoritarian China vs. Cacophonous democratic India

Two articles in the Wall Street Journal this week contain thoughts bearing on the debate regarding the relative virtues of China’s authoritarianism and India’s free-wheeling, cacophonous democratic More...

ซัลลิแวน Boris | | March 24th, 2012
A year of Defrosting of India-Pakistan relations

A year of Defrosting of India-Pakistan relations

For all of the discouraging news coming out of South Asia – Afghanistan’s escalating turmoil, the breakdown in U.S.-Pakistani relations, and growing political instability in Islamabad – there is one heartening More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
March 2nd, 2012
India emerges as cheaper alternative to rice from exporters like Thailand

India emerges as cheaper alternative to rice from exporters like Thailand

Five months after lifting a ban on exports of cheaper varieties of rice, India has emerged as one of the world’s top rice exporters. That has helped stabilize prices around the world, even as the cost goes More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
March 1st, 2012
Middle Class Is the Game Changer in Luxury Market (LVMH)

Middle Class Is the Game Changer in Luxury Market (LVMH)

Tikka Shatrujit Singh, chief representative in Asia for French multinational LVMH (Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton) and advisor to the chairman of Louis Vuitton, has spearheaded the development of Louis Vuitton’s More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
February 8th, 2012
China and India are not in the same league

China and India are not in the same league

Analysts often compare India and China as two rivals that represent Asia’s rise. But T.N. Ninan, editorial director of Business Standard, throws cold water on the notion of Chindia, arguing that the two countries More...

January 27th, 2012
Thailand wants more Indian Investors

Thailand wants more Indian Investors

Thailand is seeking a strategic partnership with India and is ready to develop bilateral cooperation between the two nations at all levels while seeking ways to foster the relationship between the Association of More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
January 27th, 2012
Thailand to expand trade and investment with India

Thailand to expand trade and investment with India

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has met with Thai businesspeople in the Indian capital and is due to hold talks with India’s Prime Minister to expand cooperation in trade and investment between the two countries. More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
January 26th, 2012
Thailand and India to Enhance Partnership and economic cooperation

Thailand and India to Enhance Partnership and economic cooperation

Since Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will join India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 มกราคม 2012, she will also take this opportunity to pay an official visit to India from January 24 ไปยัง 26.  More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
January 18th, 2012
Indian bureaucracy worst in Asia, Singapore best and Thailand in 3rd

Indian bureaucracy worst in Asia, Singapore best and Thailand in 3rd

Indian bureaucracy is the worst in Asia with a 9.21 rating out of 10, according to a report by a prestigious consulting firm based in Singapore.  More...

January 13th, 2012
Foreign investment in India retail sector could fight rural poverty

Foreign investment in India retail sector could fight rural poverty

Had the government of India proposal not run into a buzzsaw of opposition, foreign investors might have given India’s retail industry a jumpstart.  More...

โดย Aishwarya Gupta
December 31st, 2011