December 15th, 2007
India is growing great guns.
Telco is a 60:40 joint venture between Tata Motors Ltd. and Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
The company has plans for a new facility to meet the rising demand for construction equipment in India.
The facility will be built in three phases over three years beginning in 2009.
How much does Telco want […]
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December 11th, 2007
Suzuki Motor Corp has a new compact hatchback that will be manufactured in India and sold all over the world.
Suzuki wants India to be the company's export hub.
Suzuki also wants to maintain its majority share in the Indian market.
"Our next world car will be made in India," says Suzuki's CEO.
Production will begin in the fall […]
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December 5th, 2007
China and India have pledged to expand financial cooperation between the world's two largest developing countries, also making up 40% of the world's population.
At the second China-India Financial Dialogue in Beijing, the two countries signed an agreement to boost exchanges and cooperation on:
1. bond markets development,
2. capital markets opening
3. financial supervision.
Both sides agreed […]
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November 27th, 2007
Carmakers want to sell more cars to Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).
Prices are dropping, cars are getting cheaper, price and quality to make inroads into these new emerging economies.
1. Renault SA has a $3,000 car planned for 2010 in partnership with Nissan Motor Co.
2. Toyota Motor Corp. has a low-priced "entry-level family car" […]
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November 3rd, 2007
A 20-member delegation from Japan is heading to India to teach New Delhi some of the lessons Tokyo learned in China.
Toyota Motor Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., and Canon Inc.among others as well as officials from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) are heading to India to press New Delhi to step up […]
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October 12th, 2007
Honda Motor Co. hopes to sell its Honda Civic Hybrid in India starting next year.
Save the world with advanced environmental-protection technology and all that sort of thing…
"Buy our Honda Civic Hybrid - Save the World."
India doesn't have a system for approval of hybrid cars yet. However, when it does, Honda Siel Cars India Ltd. wants […]
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March 5th, 2007
Suzuki Motor Co. has more than half the market share of four-wheeled vehicles in India…not four-wheel drive vehicles…cars, autos, that sort of thing.
But…Indians drive motorcycles at a six to one ratio and the first vehicle of choice for new drivers is the motorcycle. If they only knew it was easier and safer to drive a […]
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February 22nd, 2007
I am hanging out in Chicago this week watching a university conference swim championship that my son is participating in. Sorry about that plug for my boy.
They put complimentary USA TODAYs outside our room each day.
I thought I would enjoy reading about how things are going on in the USA…Grey's Anatomy spin-offs, American Idol […]
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February 19th, 2007
Hired Indian kids are known as "playmates" for babies or "household helps."
Recruiters rationalize that they "are doing something noble by helping feed and clothe poor village children."
Others are just looking for a profit - "earning between 3,000 and 10,000 rupees per child, as well as a percentage of the child's monthly wages."The children make […]
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February 13th, 2007
India's largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and China's Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) have officially launched a joint venture.
The venture will be set up in Beijing's Silicon Valley (Zhongguancun Software Park) and will provide IT services to China, Europe, the United States, Japan, Asia…golly, that about covers most of the world.
Tata is the […]
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