ASEAN occupies central place in Asia-Pacifics security architecture: VK Singh
The Dollar Business Bureau Minister of State for External Affairs Gen VK Singh said on Sunday that ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) occupies a central position in the Asia-Pacific region’s “security architecture” and has the distinctive ability to reflect the greater interests of world. From the Indian perspective, ASEAN occupied a central place in the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific region, Singh said while speaking at the 15th meeting of ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers in Manila. In the last five decades, the regional intergovernmental organisation had put behind it several post-decolonisation discussions of the region and steered away adeptly from the Cold War to enter in a new era of higher economic growth that act as an example to others, he said. “Surviving ...
An Apple Lesson Made Newton Wise. Is India next?
Volume is a short term USP. It's easy for another emerging nation to emulate low-quality assembly lines. Quality is permanent. India's MSMEs should be taught that quality matters. In Olympics. In manufacturing. In services. And in exports! Steven Philip Warner | October 2016 Issue | The Dollar Business If you want a happy ending, where you stop the ink matters. It’s the case with fiction and reality, individuals, nations and companies alike. But I won’t as much begin with a conclusion, as I will with a question. Can one brand – a company – tell a convincing tale about another – a nation – in an era that seems to be indefinitely moving into the past at warp speed? The company – Apple, a ...
Working to make India global manufacturing hub: PM tells ASEAN leaders
The Dollar Business Bureau The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2015, at Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia on Saturday Promising more policy reforms to ease the business process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told investors of ASEAN countries that his government was making all out efforts to transform India into a global manufacturing hub. “Reducing complicated procedures, making them available at one platform- preferably online, simplifying the forms and formats has been taken up on war footing. We are working in all ways to make India a global manufacturing hub,” Modi said at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Kuala Lumpur. The Prime Minister is in Malaysia to attend the 13th ASEAN-India summit. India’s trade ...
India seeks to forge deeper economic partnership with ASEAN
The Dollar Business Bureau With an aim to boost economic and trade partnership with the ASEAN members, Modi had, at the 12th ASEAN-India Summit held in Myanmar in November 2014, pitched for the “Act East Policy” and had jointly created ASEAN-India Free Trade Area With the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Malaysia, India is eyeing a more robust economic integration with the ASEAN countries. Modi is schedule to be on a two-day visit to Kuala Lumpur to attend the 13th ASEAN-India Summit on November 21 and the 10th East Asia Summit on November 22. With an aim to boost economic and trade partnership with the ASEAN members, Modi had, at the 12th ASEAN-India Summit held in Myanmar in ...
