By Charles F. Moreira, Editor Less than month after we reported on several Chinese associations and societies on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia welcoming the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) for the business and economic benefits it will bring, The Malaysian Insight of 11 October 2017 reports that both Chinese and Malay commerce guilds […]
India to be a major manufacturing hub for automobiles with sales up to 9% up between 2016 and 2017
SOURCE: SIAM By Charles Moreira The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) sees India becoming a major manufacturing hub for automobiles, with exports of passenger vehicles likely to grow further. The automotive industry body expects India’s domestic sales of 3,046,727 passenger vehicles between April 2016 and March 2017 to go up 9.23%, over the 2,789,208 […]
Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting China, Hong Kong and Malaysia – Part 2
By Charles F Moreira, Editor Hong Kong has a vibrant startup ecosystem which saw the total number of startups grow from 1,558 in 2015 to 1,926 in 2016 and the total number of startup staff (including employees and founders) increase from 3.721 to 5,229 between these two years. This translates into an increase from just […]
Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting China, Hong Kong and Malaysia – Part 1
By Charles F Moreira, Editor Malaysia supports the Belt and Road Initiative (China’s One Belt, One Road initiative), as it will enhance trade between Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and other countries along the road, Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) Chief Executive Officer, Ir. Dr. Mohd. Shahreen Zainooreen Madros told the Belt and Road Initiative: […]
Huge business opportunities between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Malaysia
By Charles F. Moreira, Editor Malaysia has a business friendly environment and is an ideal partner for companies in China and Hongkong to do business with. MIDA (Malaysian Investment Development Authority) is ready to help, said Ms Lim Bee Vian, Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) executive director of Services Development (RESC and R&DBS) to the […]
China’s first all indigenous bullet train makes its début run
By Charles F. Moreira, Editor A bullet train named Fuxing (rejuvenation), model CR400AF left Beijing South Railway Station for Shanghai at 11.05am on 26 June 2017, whilst at the same time, another Fuxing bullet train model CR400BF left Shanghai Hongqaio Railway Station for Beijing, with journey times of around three and a half hours. The […]
Automation steals IT services and BPO jobs
By Charles F. Moreira, Editor Automation puts at risk the jobs of low-skilled IT services and business process outsourcing (BPO) workers, not only in India but also in the United States and elsewhere too. Head Hunter’s India founder-chairman and managing director K Lakshmikanth saying that up to 600,000 of India’s IT and BPO workers could […]
The bench gets shorter for India’s IT workers
By Charles F. Moreira Analysts, programmers and coders with India’s major IT companies has so far been lucky compared to their North American and European counterparts, as a sizeable proportion of them are employed on full pay just to stand by ready to be immediately deployed on IT projects as and when needed, much like […]
China, Russia and India join the home-grown civil airliner party
By Charles F. Moreira PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) forecasts that there are strong indications that over the next decade, the commercial aviation industry may see not only more passengers and aircraft worldwide but also more industry players, and also that China is on an aggressive course to build a world-class commercial aviation manufacturing base, whilst Mexico continues […]
Reviving Malaysia’s interest in the business of China and India
By Charles F. Moreira, Editor Enterprise TV is on a mission. Malaysians forget that to move forward, is to first look beyond our shores from the narrow and limited ‘Malaysia Only’ view. Fact is, much of what we think is impactful and progressive – is really dwarfed in achievement relative by Asia from a larger […]