India, Japan ties on infra development offer opportunities for Singapore cos
The Dollar Business Bureau India and Japan have come together in a major way for developing strategic and civilian infrastructure in Andaman & Nicobar Islands and abroad that can distinctively benefit Singapore, said a leading Indian researcher. Rupakjyoti Borah, visiting research fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS), said that India-Japan partnership offers business opportunities to Singapore’s infrastructure companies that are ‘too good to miss’. He further said Singaporean companies could collaborate with firms in India and Japan, not just for building, but also maintaining the infrastructure projects. “A notable area could be the port (sector) as Singapore has rich expertise in this area,” Borah said, while speaking at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore. Borah further said that being a major energy ...
CII inks MoUs with 3 Singapore universities for students training
The Dollar Business Bureau The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Friday signed memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with three universities of Singapore in order to offer training opportunities to the students. The MoUs will allow the Singapore universities and the International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, a government agency promoting foreign trade, to tap into the network of CII of more than 8,000 members for creating international attachment opportunities for students enrolled in the universities. IE Singapore, which is a statutory board under the Trade and Industry Ministry of Singapore, is the lead signatory of MoU and will support these attachment opportunities under the Young Talent Programme for Students. The signatories to the MoUs are National University of Singapore (NSU), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore ...
Domestic market key for India in an era of weak global demand
Sai Nikesh D | The Dollar Business The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), on Friday, conducted a conference aimed at improving business environment in India and also towards promotion of North India as a manufacturing hub. In the conference, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), focused at improving India’s ease of doing business and investments climate, has been signed between CII and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). As per the MoU, the CII and NUS would be conducting state-level research activities in coordination with the respective State governments and prepare a state-level action plan for ease of doing business in the States. The CII-NUS joint state-level research across 11 parameters include starting ...