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India
to host next military exercise with
China(AFP, Feb 26)
India will host the second joint military
exercises with China, as the neighbours
continue to mend ties after a brief but
bitter border war in 1962, a report
said. The first-ever military manoeuvres
between the world's most populous nations
were held in China in December, when about
200 Indian and Chinese troops jointly
"took out" a
group of supposed terrorists along their
border.
Rice
in China for NKorea Nuke Talks(Associated
Press, Feb 26)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
Tuesday she expects China to help
prod North Korea into fully declaring its
nuclear programs, hoping to breath
new life into a stalled disarmament
process. Following a meeting with Chinese
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Rice said the
U.S. still awaited a "complete and full
declaration" from
the North as promised last year.
African
delegation to visit India for $5.6 bn
projects(The Economic Times, Feb 25)
To discuss and forge collaborations for 102
projects worth $5.6 billion in
the areas of agriculture, minerals,
infrastructure, transport and education,
a 250-member delegation from the African
countries will visit India next
month."We require to build long-term
relations between India and Africa that are
beneficial to both sides," Chairman of
Confederation of Indian Industry's
Africa Committee Syamal Gupta told
reporters here on Monday.
China,
Zambia sign $200m contracts(China Daily,
Feb 26)
Visiting Chinese trade delegation in Lusaka,
capital of Zambia, on Monday signed with
local enterprises a basket of contracts,
buying goods worth $200 million.
Entrepreneurs from both China and Zambia also
hammered out cooperation intentions of US$300
million to further explore business
potentials in the Southern African country.
Opinion
Why
is China Booming?(The Korea Times, Feb
26)
China is now celebrating the 30th anniversary
of the period officially known
as ``reform and opening." Labeling time
in this way echoes China's imperial
history. During moments of political
transition ― a military victory, for
example
― the emperor might designate a special
``era
name" to
help celebrate the good news. Or the court
might test out a new era name after
a political debacle, in an effort to wipe the
slate clean.
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Energy |
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Turkey
offers oil pipe lifeline to India(Asia
Times, Feb 27)
Turkey has offered - during a visit by
Foreign Minister Ali Babacan to India this
month - to facilitate the supply of oil to
India from Central Asia via Israel through a
combination of overland pipelines and super
tankers.
IFC
backs Industrial Bank on green
loans(China Daily, Feb 26)
The International Financial Corporation
(IFC), a member of the World Bank Group,
will provide a $100 million risk-sharing
facility to the Industrial Bank to
support green loans in China.
Yesterday's deal is the second phase of
the IFC's energy efficiency financing
program with the Industrial Bank , which will
help the Fujian-based bank extend 1.5 billion
yuan ($209.79 million)in green loans to
cutfive million tons of carbon dioxide
emissions a year. That's
the equivalent of closing 10 100-MW
coal-fired power plants in China.
China
may hit energy use target for 1st time in
08(Reuters, Feb 25)
China could meet its own annual targets for
energy efficiency for the first time this
year, but will still have problems meeting
its goals of reducing emissions, according to
a state-backed think tank.
India
hopeful on nuclear deal despite adamant
left(Reuters, Feb 25)
India said on Monday it was still hopeful
of clinching a nuclear deal with the United
States, in what analysts said was an
indication the government was making a final
effort to convince its communist allies about
the pact.
Opinion
10
things the nation must do to avert an energy
crunch (and protect the planet)(Houston
Chronicle, Feb 24)
THE price of crude oil has topped $100 a
barrel and could go higher. Rising demand for
oil in India and China, combined with global
bottlenecks in production and refining, could
cause an energy crunch with the potential to
disrupt economies and place public safety at
risk.
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Information & Communication Technologies |
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Planned
consolidation in China telecom industry to
create new business opportunities(DIGI
Times, Feb 26)
The telecom industry in China is going to
undertake a major consolidation in
the near future, with the process likely to
create new demand for telecom network
equipment, according to market sources
familiar with the telecom industry in
China.
China
Telecom Overhaul Plan May Come in March(The
Wall Street Journal, Feb 22)
China may unveil long-awaited plans for a
restructuring of its massive telecommunications
industry as early as next month, state-run
radio reported. If the plan proceeds
as outlined in the brief report yesterday,
it would consolidate China's
six big state-run telecom operators into
three, with the surviving entities
allowed to offer a full-range of services
instead of being divided among fixed-line,
mobile and other offerings now.
Opinion
India
shows how ICT can help economy(Australian
IT, Feb 19)
If Australia is serious about taking
advantage of technology to drive economic
growth, we need to take a serious look at
India, which offers a great model
of how the ICT sector can be an economic
powerhouse. India currently boasts
the fastest growing technology market in
the world, according to a recent study
by Gartner. The research firm predicts that
India's ICT industry will swell by 25-30
per cent during 2008, thanks to
"unabated growth in the IT services
market in the export sector coupled with
significant IT services growth in the
domestic market".
Can
India Produce a Google?(New
America Media, Feb 26)
With the largest youth population in the
world, and a booming middle class,
India is being heralded as a potential
Superpower, especially when it comes
to information technology. But, is India
just going to be the "back office"
to the world; booking its airline tickets, or
will there be an Indian Google? Rafiq Dossani
has had a ringside seat in watching
India's economic transformation. He was
once an editor with Business India Weekly,
one of India's best-known business
publications. He's now the executive
director of South Asia Programs at Stanford
University's
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research
Center.
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Agriculture |
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India's
2008-09 budget to focus on
agriculture(CNN Money, Feb 26)
India's federal budget for the
financial year 2008-09 may include measures
to help heavily indebted farmers as the
country seeks to sustain economic growth of
about 9 pct, agriculture experts and analysts
said. Indian agriculture accounts for 25 pct
of the gross domestic product (GDP) and about
75 pct of India's
population is dependent directly or
indirectly on the industry.
Budget
2008: Agri issues that still stand(CNBC-TV18,
Feb 23)
CNBC-TV18's Vivian Fernandes attempts
to find answers regarding the real
issues concerning the Indian economy. The
annual agriculture growth target
of the government is 4%, so as to achieve
high GDP growth along with the employment.
China
tightens grip on grain(Asia
Times, Feb 21)
China has rung the alarm bell over
potential threats to its grain security,
scrapping export rebates and imposing
tariffs and quotas on sales of its farm
products overseas, after the fourth
successive year that increased harvests
have failed to meet demand.
China's
Genetically
Altered Food Boom(Truth About Trade and
Technology,Feb 26)
In the wake of poisonings in Japan linked
to Chinese-made dumplings, last week
brought a fresh wave of scrutiny to
China's control over its food industry.
In 2006 and 2007, European officials
discovered an unauthorized variety of
genetically modified (GM) rice made in China
- illegal in both Europe and China - in
processed food exported to European Union
nations.
Opinion
Food
First(The
Times of India, Feb 25)
Food prices have been on the rise in India
and the world, but for varying reasons.
World food prices are projected to maintain
a firm trend over the next 15 years
because of at least three reasons: a rise
in demand in emerging economies,
increased consumption of meat which ramps
up demand for food grains; and diversion
of crops for production of biofuels.
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Education |
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'Massive
investment for higher education in 11th
Plan'(The Hindu, Feb 25)
Higher education will receive massive
investment in the 11th Five Year Plan,
with 30 new Central Universities and 370
new colleges in educationally backward
districts being planned during the period,
President Pratibha Patil said on
Monday.
Steps
taken to overcome lack of quality engineers
in IT sector(The
Economic Times, Feb 26)
Government on Tuesday said steps are being
taken to overcome the shortage of
quality engineers in the IT
industry.National Association of Software and
Services
Companies (NASSCOM) has raised the issue of
lack of employability of engineering
graduates in IT and IT enabled Services
sectors, Minister of State for Human
Resources Development D Purandeswari said
in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
China
defuses song and dance over Peking
Opera(Reuters,
Feb 26)
China has made clear that a pilot programme
teaching traditional Peking Opera
in schools would not be compulsory after it
drew criticism from Internet users
who said forced instruction would turn
students off. China's Education Ministry
said classic and modern Peking Opera pieces
added to the music curriculum at 200 schools
in 10 provinces for the new semester in March
were only "a promotional course" to
help students better appreciate Chinese
culture.
China
expands basic education to W rural
population(Xinhua,
Feb 25)
More than six million people in western
China have learned to read and write
since the government launched a major
literacy campaign in 2003, the Ministry
of Education announced on Monday.By the end
of last year, 98 percent of the
rural population in western China had
access to basic education, up from 77
percent in2003, said Jiang Peimin, director
of the ministry's basic education
department.
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Industrial Resources | Manufacturing |
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Chinese
industry forecasts price rise for white
goods (China View, February 25)
Higher raw material costs are forcing Chinese
white goods manufacturers to raise
prices, with an industry analyst predicting a
spate of price rises in May. Haier,
one of the leading domestic white goods
manufacturers, has raised its prices on
goods, mainly washing machines and
refrigerators, by 5 percent to 10 percent.
The price rise was due to rocketing costs for
human resources and raw materials
such as steel, Haier said.
Iron
ore price rise could force China steel
rationalization (China View, February
26)
China imports almost half of the world's
seaborne iron ore, making it the largest
iron ore consumer in the world, but it has
become a price-taker for this basic
input for steel -- perhaps because it waited
too long to negotiate with major
suppliers. Analysts said that this situation
could have been anticipated, because
iron ore was in such demand globally, but
they added that higher costs might actually
help rationalize the Chinese steel industry
by pricing some smaller firms with
obsolete technology out of business.
Ban
on export
of iron ore sought (The Hindu, February
26)
Hit hard by rising input prices, Punjab based
steel producers have sought from
Union Finance Minister in the coming budget
to completely ban or impose duty on
the export of iron ore and abolish import
duty on secondary steel in order to
bring down the steel prices.
Ministry:
China's construction industry getting
greener (China View, February 26)
China's green construction system, with a
market value estimated at 1.5 trillion
yuan (208 billion U.S. dollars), is growing
through energy-efficient projects,
the Ministry of Construction said here on
Tuesday. Qiu Baoxing, deputy head of
the ministry, said the construction area
involved had increased by 2 billion square
meters each year, nearly half of world's
total.
India's
shipbuilding industry finally gets its time
frame right(Livemint, February
25)
When state-run Cochin Shipyard Ltd delivered
the sixth and last of a series of
bulk carriers built for Denmark's Clipper
Group on 30 November 2007, it
achieved a first for the Indian shipbuilding
industry. The ship was handed over
to the owner 105 days before the scheduled
date of delivery. The building of six
bulk carriers, each having a capacity to
carry 20,000 tonnes of dry bulk cargo,
for the Clipper Group signifies India's
transition from a shipbuilding country
that is notorious for missing delivery
deadlines to one that meets globally acceptable
standards on delivery time and quality of
ships.
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Environment | Climate Change |
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India
to ensure less carbon emissions: Prez
(The Times of India, February 25)
India is willing to ensure that its
green-house gas emissions will not exceed
the per capita emissions of developed
countries at any time, President Pratibha
Patil said on Monday. The government is also
planning a 'National Action Plan
on Climate Change', she said in her
maiden address to the joint sitting of the
Budget session of the Parliament.
China,
India speed climate change: Australian
report (AFP, February 21)
The economic rise of China and India means
climate change is occurring faster
than previously thought, making efforts to
fix the problem more urgent, an official
Australian report found Thursday. The
government-commissioned report called for
stronger international commitment to
addressing climate change, saying current
efforts "still fall far short of getting
deep cuts in global emissions underway."
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Corporate Responsibility |
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Understanding
the Chinese overtime dilemma (EMS Now,
February 26)
With the best corporate social responsibility
(CSR) intentions, an OEM tells its
Chinese contract manufacturer to limit
workers' overtime to the amount prescribed
under law. Then many of the workers quit and
go to another manufacturer that doesn't
follow the law. Electronics manufacturers and
others face the dilemma of breaking
the law to offer as much overtime as possible
to workers, or complying and losing
workers to employers who don't play by
the rule. Chinese labor law stipulates
that workers cannot work more than 36 hours
of overtime in a month, but does not
enforce the rule, and workers want as much
overtime as they can get.
Incorporate
social responsibility as part of fabric of
business (The Hindu, February 23)
What do Fortune magazine's top 10 most
admired companies have in common?
Big profits? May be, but that's not all.
These big name companies, which
include Dell, General Electric, Starbucks,
Federal Express, Microsoft lend time
and resources for corporate social
responsibility programmes. But, many in India
consider corporate social responsibility
nothing more than whitewash, said Hiren
Shah, Chairman Indo-American Chamber of
Commerce.
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Innovation |
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CII
hosts meet on innovation,creativity, IPR in
Mumbai (MoneyControl, February
25)
CII in collaboration with the U.S.Chamber of
Commerce & U.S. India Business
Council (USIBC) & Department of
Industrial Policy & Promotion, Govt. of
India, will host the 2nd Annual Global Forum
on Innovation, Creativity and Intellectual
Property in Mumbai, India on 26-27 February
2008 at Hotel Hyatt Regency. The forum
is being Organized Further innovation and
Intellectual Property Rights enforcement;
Develop solutions to the persistent IP
challenges throughout the world and Publicize
new IP initiatives, including legislative
reforms.
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Healthcare | Medicine |
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Vice
premier: China health insurance to cover more
non-working urbanites (China
View, February 26)
China will this year expand its experiments
in health insurance for non-working
residents in 50 percent of the cities
involved, said Vice Premier Wu Yi on Tuesday
in a national tele-conference. She urged the
pilot cities to accelerate the pace
of experimenting, so as to lay a good
foundation for the establishment of the
Fundamental Medical Insurance System in an
all-around manner.
Failure
of public
health care system (MeriNews, February
26)
In India, health checkup means going to a
doctor only when you fall ill. If you
are not suffering with any serious ailments
you should avoid visiting a government
hospital, otherwise you will be severely
scolded by the doctors and other staff.
Another reason why you should not visit a
hospital is time. If you are free for
the entire day and have no other work you may
go to hospital. It means health
is not a priority in India.
China
bird flu victim ate sick chickens:
officials (Reuters, February 25)
A woman in the southern Chinese province of
Guangdong has died of the H5N1 bird
flu virus, which she probably contracted from
sick poultry she kept in her backyard,
Hong Kong government health officials said on
Monday. The 44-year-old migrant
worker, who was employed in Haifeng county in
the eastern part of Guangdong, tested
positive for H5N1 in a test by
Guangdong's Centre for Disease Prevention
and Control,
and the Health Ministry in Beijing has to
confirm the result.
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Logistics | Transportation |
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Steel
industry
welcomes Rail Budget (The Hindu, February
26)
The Indian Steel Industry on Tuesday hailed
the Railway budget 2008-09 as a balanced
and forward looking one and complimented
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad for developing
corridors for iron ore and coal to meet the
growing needs of steel and power sectors.
China's
railway builder plans $5.4 billion
HK-Shanghai IPOs (The Economic Times,
February
26)
China Railway Construction Corp, a major
builder in China, plans to raise up to
$5.4 billion from its Hong Kong and Shanghai
initial public offerings despite
recent market volatility, a person familiar
with the deal said on Monday. China,
aiming to ease bottlenecks caused by its
surging economy, earmarked 1.25 trillion
yuan for railway infrastructure investment in
its five-year plan through 2010,
nearly quadruple the levels under the
previous five-year plan.
'Steel
transportation
to increase 67 pc by 2011-12' (The
Hindu, February 26)
Setting a target of over 10 per cent increase
in freight earnings during the next
fiscal, Indian Railways on Tuesday said it
aims to transport 200 metric tons of
steel by 2011-12, a jump of 66.67 per cent
from the current level. "The Railways
receives 120 MT traffic from the steel
industry every year and we have targeted
a traffic of 200 MT from the steel industry
by 2011-12," Union Railway Minister
Lalu Prasad said while presenting the Railway
Budget 2008-09 in the Parliament.
New
Bangalore airport exposes India's
infrastructure challenge (AFP, February
26)
In southern India the much-awaited Bangalore
international airport is almost ready,
but getting there could prove a nightmare for
travellers facing more chaos on
clogged roads. The 630-million-dollar
facility is 95 percent complete, and will
open for flights as scheduled on March 30,
Bangalore International Airport Ltd.
(BIAL) chief executive officer Albert Brunner
said.
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