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ASIA AUTOMOTIVE
Riding Southeast Asia's automotive highway
Strategies to steer through Southeast Asia's promising automotive market.In light of slowing growth in BRIC markets, automakers are rapidly turning their attention to new growth frontiers in Southeast Asia. The region boasts a ...    Read on...
Chinese automakers to gain larger market share globally, finds KPMG survey
Chinese automakers will continue to gain larger global market share in the next five years on the back of strong demand, finds KPMG's annual automotive survey.KPMG's seventeenth Global Automotive Executive Survey features insights ...    Read on...
Make in India: Leveraging Human Capital
The EY-SIAM HR Study - Make in India: LeveragingHuman Capital captures the insights of CEOs and HR Heads of leading OEMs, auto component manufacturers, service and sales partners. The study focuses on three main ...    Read on...
Additional Asia automotive articles
- India shines on global passenger vehicle map
- Korea's car exports plunge in January
- International auto-part firms eye India
- For VW, GM And Toyota, China Profit Machine Set To Stall
  
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Connected Vehicle Management Overview
The widespread adoption of in-vehicle technology, mobile devices, and the infrastructure to support them has suddenly accelerated the growth of the Connected Vehicle industry. To ensure that the V2X environment is successful, manufacturers, telecommunications companies, regulatory and public safety agencies and insurers will require ...    Learn more...
FREE TRIAL TO OUR GLOBAL BUSINESS EDUCATION PLATFORM
7-day Free Access to Automotive Dashboard
Global Business Professor has developed a customized learning tool for Automotive professionals doing business in Asia and other regions of the world. The education platform offers over 60 seminars on Asia, along with online courses, audio interviews, reports, white papers, and other great resources ...  Learn more
MANUFACTURING & ECONOMY
To accurately understand India's economy right now, don't look at the GDP
A sense that economic activity had slowed in the third quarter of the 2016 fiscal, after signs of modest revival earlier in the year, was partially validated by the advance estimates of GDP for the year. The growth has indeed slowed compared ...     Read on ...
What might happen in China in 2016?
Millions of people being relocated from cities, fewer jobs, greater centralization, and more movie blockbusters are just some of the author's predictions for the year.In debates about whether growth is a percentage point up or down, we to ...     Read on ...
Additional Asian manufacturing, economy articles
- India's manufacturing sector bounces back to growth in January
- Korean manufacturing losing steam
- Not So Great Expectations for Japan
- India to invest US$ 1 trillion in power sector by 2030
  
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ON-DEMAND SEMINARS BY PRACTICING EXPERTS

Export Strategies for China and Korean Automotive Markets

 

China CCC Certification for Automotive Parts 


Global Ambition: Harnessing the talent and potential of Asian leaders


Supply Chain Finance in Asia


Innovation in China Customs and International Trade

SELLING TO OEMs & TOP TIER SUPPLIERS IN CHINA
Business Development Help in China for Automotive Suppliers
Looking for key relationship development and management services for auto suppliers in China?  If you want to develop relationships with target Chinese automotive business or government parties ...     Read on...
SUPPLY CHAIN & TRADE
China's Weakening Economy May Disrupt Global Supply Chains
In H2 2015, a cyclical downturn in financial services added to that pressure, although the impact on GDP will be transitory.The long-term reasons for China's weaker growth have not substantially changed - a slow grind of old ...     Read on ...
Does China Have a "Stranglehold" on Pacific Rim Shipping?
"Sea Strangulation" explains how the United States has become vulnerable to Chinese maritime coercion and details a challenge from China that the U.S. is ill-prepared to meet.While it's unlikely to pull the U.S. economy into recession ...     Read on ...
Additional logistics and trade articles
- The predators behind the TPP
- One Belt One Road - China's New Outbound Trade Initiative
- Vietnam Prepares for Belt and Road
SUPPLY CHAIN CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP IN DETROIT AREA
CONFERENCE on February 17 - Ann Arbor, MI (US):
Univ. of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

"Sustainable Supply Chains:
How New Mobility Strategies and Technologies Are Changing Goods Movement"

WORKSHOP on February 19 in Troy, MI (US):

"Bridging Cultures to Drive Performance in Mexico Automotive Supply Chain"
HR AND TALENT MANAGEMENT
Employee pensions in India
FICCI and KPMG in India collaborated to prepare a knowledge paper on the current practices and challenges of employer related pensions in India. The knowledge paper, titled 'Employee Pensions in India - Current practices, ...     Read on ...
China's anti-corruption laws have changed the way people are giving gifts for the Lunar New Year
Cities across China have gotten so congested recently that urban dwellers who usually drive are taking public transit or walking. It's no wonder: Chinese New Year is here. The Chinese people go on the move every year when this ...    Read on ...
Additional HR and talent management articles
- China's Aging Population (report)
- One of Singapore's most prominent job experts revealed why Asia's workforce is at a crossroads
- India: Minimum Bonus and Eligibility Ceiling to Double Under Payment of Bonus Act
- South Korea: Non-resident foreign employees on assignment
- Thailand: New Work Permit Policy for ASEAN Workers
- China: End of the One-Child Policy Driving Changes in Leave Entitlements
- Business education in Japan: Fact and Fiction

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TAX & FINANCE
Amended Japan-Germany Tax Treaty
On 17 December 2015, the governments of Japan and Germany signed a new tax agreement, which will supersede the current tax agreement concluded in 1967 (partly amended in 1980 and in 1984).This newsletter covers the main points ...     Read on ...
Investing in India Guide
Given the growing investment opportunities in India and the various initiatives launched by the government, which are aimed to provide momentum to the growth of businesses in the country, we, at KPMG in India, are proud to ...     Read on ...
Additional articles on tax and finance in Asia
- 2016 Japan tax reform outline
- Hong Kong Capital Markets Update - Issue 5
OTHER HOT TOPICS ON ASIA
Additional articles on doing business in Asia
 
- Emerging trends in real estate® Asia Pacific 2016 (report)
- Cybercrime key fraud risk in India: our FDA Survey
- China Risk Assurance: Risk Bites
- Chinese airports experience rapid growth - New Five Year Plan presents opportunities and challenges

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